时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


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   "I dread 1 to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, "it makes me realize I am growing old.”


  William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are "old fogies at twenty-five",He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their "Principles, " and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.
  The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years-that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old.
  Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer 2, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense."
  And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?"
  Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.
  As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , "I grew," he is still young.
  The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know,"--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

vt.担忧,忧虑;惧怕,不敢;n.担忧,畏惧
  • We all dread to think what will happen if the company closes.我们都不敢去想一旦公司关门我们该怎么办。
  • Her heart was relieved of its blankest dread.她极度恐惧的心理消除了。
n.天文学家
  • A new star attracted the notice of the astronomer.新发现的一颗星引起了那位天文学家的注意。
  • He is reputed to have been a good astronomer.他以一个优秀的天文学者闻名于世。
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