Lesson 11 How to grow old

歌曲 Lesson 11 How to grow old
歌手 英语听力
专辑 新概念英语(第四册)

歌词

[00:01.46] Lesson 11
[00:03.20] How to grow old
[00:12.84] What, according to the author, is the best way to overcome the fear of death as you get older?
[00:22.43] Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
[00:27.13] In the young there is a justification for this feeling.
[00:31.12] Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle
[00:35.30] may justifiably feel bitter in the thought
[00:38.27] that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer.
[00:43.15] But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,
[00:48.12] and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,
[00:52.21] the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.
[00:57.46] The best way to overcome it -- so at least it seems to me --
[01:01.79] is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,
[01:06.93] until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,
[01:11.94] and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.
[01:17.73] An individual human existence should be like a river --
[01:21.99] small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,
[01:26.38] and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.
[01:32.29] Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly,
[01:39.27] and in the end, without any visiblebreak, they become merged in the sea,
[01:45.44] and painlessly lose their individual being.
[01:49.70] The man who, in old age can see his life in this way,
[01:54.58] will not suffer from the fear of death,
[01:57.68] since the things he cares for will continue.
[02:01.73] And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases,
[02:06.66] the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.
[02:10.85] I should wish to die while still at work,
[02:13.91] knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,
[02:18.35] and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

歌词大意

[00:01.46] dì shí yī jié
[00:03.20] rú hé ān dù wǎn nián
[00:12.84] duì zuò zhě lái shuō, dāng nǐ biàn lǎo de shí hòu, shén me cái shì kè fú duì sǐ wáng kǒng jù de zuì jiā tú jìng?
[00:22.43] yǒu xiē lǎo nián rén yīn wèi pà sǐ ér gǎn dào fán nǎo
[00:27.13] qīng nián rén yǒu zhè zhǒng gǎn jué shì qíng yǒu kě yuán de
[00:31.12] yǒu lǐ yóu hài pà zì jǐ huì sǐ zài zhàn chǎng shàng de nián qīng rén
[00:35.30] gǎn dào tòng kǔ, zhè shì kě yǐ lǐ jiě de
[00:38.27] xiǎng dào zì jǐ bèi bō duó le shēng huó suǒ néng jǐ yǔ de zuì měi hǎo de dōng xī shí
[00:43.15] kě shì lǎo nián rén yǐ jīng bǎo cháng le rén jiān de gān kǔ
[00:48.12] yī qiè néng zuò de dōu zuò le
[00:52.21] rú guǒ pà sǐ, jiù yǒu diǎn ér kě lián yòu kě bǐ
[00:57.46] kè fú pà sǐ de zuì hǎo bàn fǎ zhì shǎo zài wǒ kàn lái shì zhè yàng
[01:01.79] jiù shì zhú jiàn shǐ zì jǐ de xìng qù gèng jiā guǎng fàn, zhú jiàn bǎi tuō gè rén xiá xiǎo de quān zi
[01:06.93] zhí dào zì wǒ de wéi qiáng yì diǎn yì diǎn dì dǎo tā xià lái
[01:11.94] zì jǐ de shēng huó màn màn dì hé zhěng gè yǔ zhòu de shēng huó róng hé zài yì qǐ
[01:17.73] gè rén de cún zài yīng gāi xiàng yī tiáo hé liú
[01:21.99] kāi shǐ hěn xiǎo, bèi jǐn jǐn dì jiā zài liǎng àn zhōng jiān
[01:26.38] jiē zhe rè qíng bēn fàng dì chōng guò jù shí, fēi xià pù bù
[01:32.29] rán hòu hé miàn jiàn jiàn dì biàn kuān, liǎng àn hòu chè, hé shuǐ liú dé píng huǎn qǐ lái
[01:39.27] zuì hòu, lián mián bù duàn dì huì rù dà hǎi
[01:45.44] háo wú tòng kǔ dì shī qù le zì wǒ de cún zài
[01:49.70] shàng le nián jì de rén zhè yàng kàn dài shēng mìng
[01:54.58] jiù bú huì yǒu jù pà sǐ wáng de xīn qíng le
[01:57.68] yīn wèi zì jǐ guān xīn de yī qiè shì jiàn dōu huì jì xù xià qù
[02:01.73] zài zhě, suí zhe jīng lì de shuāi tuì, lǎo nián rén de pí bèi huì zēng zhǎng
[02:06.66] yǒu cháng mián de yuàn wàng wèi cháng bú shì yī jiàn hǎo shì qíng
[02:10.85] wǒ xī wàng gōng zuò dào sǐ wéi zhǐ
[02:13.91] míng bái le yǒu rén huì jì xù wǒ de wèi jìng shì yè
[02:18.35] xiǎng dào néng zuò de shì dōu zuò le, yě jiù tǎn rán le