高中英语美文阅读（英汉对照）：怎样变老 how to grow old素材

英语阅读：怎样变老 How to grow old罗素（1872-1970），一个活了 99 岁的哲学家。然而，他最大的魅力却只是哲学，还有文学。曾经获得诺贝尔文学奖——文学中最高奖项的他，用自己的朴实优美的语言为你讲述怎样过一个成功的晚年。 Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets 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 mot always easy; one’s own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that one’s mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true. 从心理上说，老年时期要防止两种危险。其一是过分沉湎于过去。生活于回忆之中，为以往的好时光而抱撼，或因朋友作古而悲伤，这些皆无济于事。人的思想必须朝着未来，朝着还可以有所作的方面。这并非总是容易做到；因为一个人的过去是一份不断加重的负担。人们容易认为自己的感情，过去比现在充沛，自己的思想，过去比现在敏锐。如果这是事实，就应该忘掉它。如果他被忘掉，那它也许将不成其为事实。 The other thing to be avoided is clinging to2 youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality3. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if 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 callous4. I do not mean that one should be without interest in them, but one’s interest should be contemplative and, if possible, philanthropic5, but not unduly emotional. Animals become indifferent to their young as soon as their young can look after themselves, but human beings, owing to the length of...