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Bertrand Russell * Bertrand Russell 伯兰特·罗素(1872-1970) 英国哲学家、逻辑学家。毕业于剑桥大学三一学院，英国皇家学会会员。第一次世界大战期间因宣传和平而被监禁。1950年获诺贝尔文学奖。1963年创立罗素和平基金。在数学上提出“罗素悖论”，对20世纪数学基础产生很大的影响。在哲学上，提出逻辑原子论即所谓“中立一元论”。在政治上，反对侵略战争，主张和平主义。在美国制造出氢弹并进行爆炸试验后，他成了核武器的积极反对者。 本篇是他具有代表性的演说How to Grow Old。本篇是最后一段，也是全文重心所在，本身即可看做一篇完整的小散文。 How to Grow Old How to Grow Old Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer. But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it——so at least it seems to me——is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river——small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue. And if, with the decay of vitality, weariness increases, the thought of rest will not be unwelcome. I should with to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. 翻译 如何安度晚年 有些老人为死的恐惧所困扰。如果年轻人有这种恐惧，那倒无