巧遇智慧英文—我的前程近在咫尺(常速) 一個(gè)人何時(shí)變老

[00:04]When Is a Man Old [00:08]“I dread to come to the end of the year”, said a friend to me recently, [00:12]“it makes me realize I am growing old.” [00:16]William James, the great psychologist, [00:18]said that most men are old fogies at twenty-five.He was right. [00:23]Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. [00:26]They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their “Principles”, [00:31]and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow. [00:35]The minute a man ceases to grow—no matter what his years— [00:40]that minute he begins to be old. [00:42]On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. [00:47]Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; [00:53]Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. [00:57]Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. [01:02]He died crying, “What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense.” [01:09]And there you have the real answer to the question, “When is a man old?” [01:14]Laplace at seventy-eight died young. [01:17]He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn. [01:22]As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, [01:26]as long as he can look back on every year and say, “I grew”, he is still young. [01:31]The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, [01:36]“I know all that I need to know,”—that day youth stops. [01:40]He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. [01:44]On that day he begins to be old.

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