守时的英语小故事，367晨读夜诵英语小故事

守时的英语小故事，367晨读夜诵英语小故事The minute a man ceases to grow — no matter what his years — that minute he begins to be old.他们积累了一些成见，并把它们当成自己的所谓“原则”；他们思想守旧，拒绝新的观点；他们已经停止了成长。He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs.他说对了，很多人在25岁时就对自己的工作感到满足。They have accumulated（积累） the little stock of prejudices that they call their "principles " and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to gro

When Is a Man Old?人何时会变老

"I dread（害怕） to come to the end of the year " said a friend to me recently "it makes me realize I am growing old."

“我很担心，一年又将逝去了，” 最近，一个朋友这样对我说，“这让我觉得自己又老了一岁。”

William James the great psychologist said that most men are "old fogies（跟不上时代的人） at twenty-five".

曾有一位著名的心理学家说过，很多人“在25岁时就已衰老落伍”。

He was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs.

他说对了，很多人在25岁时就对自己的工作感到满足。

They have accumulated（积累） the little stock of prejudices that they call their "principles " and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow.

他们积累了一些成见，并把它们当成自己的所谓“原则”；他们思想守旧，拒绝新的观点；他们已经停止了成长。

The minute a man ceases to grow — no matter what his years — that minute he begins to be old.

当一个人停止成长的时候——无论他的年龄如何——他就已经开始衰老。

On the other hand the really great man never grows old.

从另一方面来说，真正伟大的人是永不衰老的。

Goethe passed away at eighty-three and finished his Faust only a few years earlier;

歌德是在83岁逝世的。他在逝世的前几年才完成了《浮士德》。

Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy.

格拉德斯通在七十岁那年还在学习一门新语言！

Laplace the astronomer was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight.

天文学家拉普拉斯78岁去世时还在工作。

He died crying "What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense."

死神来临时，在弥留的刹那间他还喊道：“我们知道的何其少，而不知道的又何其多！”

And there you have the real answer to the question "When is a man old?"

从上面的几个例子中你可以得出“人的衰老是在什么时候？”的真正答案了。

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied still sure that he had a lot to learn.

当拉普拉斯78岁去世时，他仍然是年轻的，因为他仍然没有满足于现状，仍然觉得自己还有许多东西要学。

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.

只要一个人能保持这种心态，只要他每年回首往事时都能说：“我成长了。”他就依然年轻。

The minute he ceases to grow the minute he says to himself "I know all that I need to know " that day youth stops.

当他停止成长的那一刻，当他对自己说：“我已经知道了我需要知道的一切”的那一刻，青春就停止了。

He may be twenty-five or seventy-five it makes no difference.

他可能是二十五岁，也可能是七十五岁，这并没有什么区别。

On that day he begins to be old.

在那一天他就开始变老。