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英语美文欣赏：How to Grow Old Bertrand Russell 伯特兰·罗素-英国哲学家、数学家、逻辑学家 伯特兰·亚瑟·威廉·罗素（Bertrand Arthur William Russell，1872年5月18日－1970年2月2日），英国哲学家、数学家和逻辑学家，同时也是活跃的合理主义与自由思想活动家，并致力于哲学的大众化、普及化，很多人将罗素视为这个时代的先知，而与此同时罗素的许多政治思想却又是十分有争议性的。1950年，罗素获得诺贝尔文学奖，以表彰其“西欧思想，言论自由最勇敢的斗士，卓越的活力, 勇气，智慧与感受性，代表了诺贝尔奖的原意和精神”。1921年罗素曾于中国讲学，对中国学术界有相当影响。1970年去世，骨灰被撒在威尔士的群山之中。 Jump to: navigation, search Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS[54] (18 May 1872?– 2 February 1970) was a British nobleman, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.[55] At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these in any profound sense.[56] He was born in Monmouthshire, into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in Britain.[57] Key work: Wisdom of the West 摘要：我认为，对于那些具有强烈的爱好，其活动又都恰当适宜、并且不受个人情感影响的人们，成功地度过老年决非难事。我渴望死于尚能劳作之时，同时知道他人将继续我所未竟的事业，我大可因为已经尽了自己之所能而感到安慰。 In spite of the title, this article will really be on how not to grow old, which, at my time of life, is a much more important subject. My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth（英年早逝） at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty（活到80多岁）. Of remote ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age（活到高寿）, and he died of a disease which is now rare, namely, having his head cut off. A great-grandmother of mine, who was a friend of Gibbon, lived to the age of ninety-two（活到92岁）, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother, after having nine children who survived, one who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to womens higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College,