经典美文阅读：如何慢慢变老
我们没有办法阻止自己变老，也没有任何人能够长生不老，我们唯一能做的就是让自己的有限生命变得更加地有意义。下面是店铺为大家带来英语经典美文：如何慢慢变老，希望大家喜欢!
In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which，at my time of life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be to choo your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young，I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-ven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty. Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, and he died of a dia which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. A great grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon，lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants.My maternal grandmother，after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widonrt
w, devoted herlf to woman's higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College,and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women. She ud to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. She inquired the cau of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his two grandchildren. “Good gracious，”she exclaimed，“I have venty-two grandchildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence!”Madre snaturale,”he replied. But speaking as one of the venty-two, I prefer her recipe. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep，so she habitually spent the hours from midnight to in reading popular science. I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old. This, I think, is proper recipe for remaining young. If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have no reason to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the probable brevity of you future.
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华尔街英语软件下载As regards health I have nothing uful to say since I have little experience of illness. I ea
t and drink whatever I like，and sleep when I cannot keep awake. I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome.
tender是什么意思when i was 10 years oldPsychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of the is undue absorption in the past. It does not do so live in memories, in regress for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One's thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy: one's own past is gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to onelf that one's emotions ud to be more vivid than they are, and one's mind keener. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true.
The other thug to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives，and you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young，you are likely to become a burden to them，unless they are unusually callous.I do not mean that one s
hould be without interest in them，but one’s interest should be contemplative and，if possible，philanthropic，but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themlves，but human beings，owing to the length of infancy, find this difficult.
I think that a successful old age is easiest for tho who have strong impersonal interests involving appropriate activities. It is in this sphere that long experience is really fruitful，and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercid without being oppressive. It is no u telling grown-up children not to make mistakes，both becau they will not believe you，and becau mistakes are an esntial part of education.But if you are one of tho who are incapable of impersonal interests，you may find that your life will be empty unless you concern yourlf with you children and grandchildren. In that ca you must realize that while you can still render them material rvices，such as making them an allowance or knitting them jumpers，you must not expect that they will enjoy your company.
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新老gre分数换算Some old people are oppresd by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows，and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abjectt and ignoble. The best way to overcome it-so at least it ems to me-is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal，until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede，and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first,narrowly contained}within its banks，and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider,the banks recede，the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the a，and painlessly lo their individual being. The man who, in old age, can e his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death，since the things he cares for will continue, And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increas, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should wish to die while still at wor
k,knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.
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与题目如何变老不同，本文真正的主旨是如何避免变老。这样的话题对我这样年纪的人来说，显得更为重要。要避免变老，我的第一个建议是:一定要小心冀冀地选择自己的祖先。虽然我的双亲在年轻的时候就去世了，可假如算上其他先人，我选的祖先还是相当不错的。确实，我的外祖父在67岁的时候便离开了人世，但是我的外祖母和祖父母三人都活了80多岁。时间更为久远一些的祖先当中，我只找到有一位没有能够安享
晚年的，他是死于一种目前已极为少见的疾病，即被人砍了头。我有一位曾祖母，她还是吉本的好友，整整活了92岁，并且直到离开世界前的最后一天，她在后代的心目中都很有威严。我的外祖母，养活了9个孩子，还有一个幼年时去世的孩子，并且有过多次小产。丈夫去世之后，她便马上致力于女子高等教育事业。她是格顿学院的奠基人之一，并为打开女性通向医学殿堂的大门作出了不懈的努力。她常常讲起在意大利的经历。她曾遇见一位年长的绅士，看上去闷闷不乐。于是她就问这位绅士为什么悲伤，他回答说他不久前刚和两个孙子辈的孩子永别了。“天啊!”她惊叫道，“我有72个孙子孙女，要是每当他们中的某个
死去，我都十分悲伤的话，那我的生活得多么悲惨啊!”这位绅士满脸惊讶地用意大利语说道:“多么不寻常的母亲啊。”但是，作为那72个子孙中的一员，我赞同她的理念。刚过80岁，她发现自己很难入睡，于是她慢慢地养成了习惯，从子夜时分到凌晨三点开始阅读科普文章。我不相信她会有时间注意到自己已经正慢慢变老。我认为，这样的行为方式正是永驻青春的奥妙所在。如果你有广泛而浓厚的兴趣，而且能积极踊跃地参加一些活动。自己已经活了多少年，这些具体的数字根本没有必要多加考虑，更无需为剩下的时日多少而担心。
关于身体健康，我没有什么值得借鉴的事情，因为我很少生病。我想吃就吃，想喝就喝，困了就睡。我做事情的原则是:不会因为对健康有益才去做。在实际生活中，我所喜欢做的率情大多是有益的。
从心理学上看，有两种危险是值得步入老年的人预防的。其一是思念过去而不能自拔，生活在回忆里，深切地留恋美好的往事，为朋友的去世悲愉不已，这样做什么好处也没有。一个人的心思一定要放在未来，放在力所能及的事情上。这往往很难做到，随着年岁的增长，人的经历会在心中占据越来越重的地位，人们很容易想到，自己现在的情感不比先前
热烈，先前的思维要比现在敏捷得多。如果这是事实的话，你就必须放弃这一念头，可如果真的忘掉了，这又不是事实了。antismoking
