新概念英語第四冊
Lesson 11 How to grow old
1 . Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.有些老年人因為怕死而感到煩惱。
2 . The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way,上了年紀的人這樣看待生命，
3 . knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,明白了有人會繼續我的未竟事業，
4 . But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,可是老年人已經飽嘗了人間的甘苦，
5 . they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.匯入大海；毫無痛苦地失去了自我的存在。
6 . and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.想到能做的事都做了，也就坦然了。
7 . And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,再者，隨著精力的衰退，老年人的疲憊感會增長，
8 . the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break,河水流得平緩起來，最後連綿不斷地
9 . An individual human existence should be like a river----個人的存在應該像一條河流，
10 . since the things he cares for will continue.因為自己關心的一切事物都會繼續下去。
11 . and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.自己的生活慢慢地和整個宇宙的生活融合在一起。
12 . Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have cheated of the best things that life has to offer.有理由害怕自己會死在戰場上的年輕人，想到自己被剝奪了生活所能給予的最美好的東西時，感到痛苦，這是可以理解的。
13 . the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.有長眠的願望未嘗不是一件好事。
14 . the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.如果怕死；就有點兒可憐又可鄙。
15 . I should wish to die while still at work,我希望工作到死為止，
16 . small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,開始很小，被緊緊地夾在兩岸中間，
17 . and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,一切能做的都做了，
18 . is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,就是逐漸使自己的興趣更加廣泛，逐漸擺脫個人狹小的圈子，
19 . until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,直到自我的圍牆一點一點地倒塌下來，
20 . and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.接著熱情奔放地衝過巨石，飛下瀑布。
21 . In the young there is a justification for this feeling.青年人有這種感覺是情有可原的。
22 . The best way to overcome it----so at least it seems to me---克服怕死的最好辦法--至少在我看來是這樣--
23 . Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede,然後河面漸漸地變寬，兩岸後撤，
24 . will not suffer from the fear of death,就不會有懼怕死亡的心情了，