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高口口译 E-C Unit5.Old age problem 老年问题 Passage 1 My life is richer, since the time spent with my elders. Im becoming more accepting and more grateful. I witnessed the incredible calculus of old age. As more is taken ,there is more love for what remains. A teacher told me that she can tell those children who have close relationship with their grandparents. They are quieter calmer and more trusting.If we wamt to learn from the old, we must love them, not in the abstract, butin the flesh, besides us the elders in families business churches and schools. We must work together to build the kinds of communities that allow us to care for one another. spend time with elders witness sth be accepting and grateful 善解人意 感恩的 quiet calm and trusting 文静 信任 incredible calculus 绝妙的演算 as more is taken , there is more love for what remains生命流逝的越多, 越珍惜剩下的 Passage 2 Today id like to share with you a problem that has troubled me for so long. I wonder if we all, throughout our lives, burdens to others. From the moment of conception, we are nourished and nurtured. A adults we learn to pay for and negotiate mutual needs. But a fact remains that it still takes an invisible army of people to grow our foods, wash our clothes, maintain our roads and fuel our furnaces. When we marry, we accept anothers pedge to stick with us in sickness or health, prosperity or poverty. The load we lay on the others only become more visible and less deniable , as we age.Should i live another 20 years, will i be a burden to my spouse or children or the state, if not all three. What i want to learn most during those decades, therefore , is not how to live a healthier or more productive life, but how best to be a burden. a problem that has troubled sb for a long time 困扰人多时的问题 the moment of conception 怀孕的时刻 be nourished/nurtured 被滋养 抚育 pay for 报答 negoiate mutual needs 协调共同利益 a fact still remains that... 但事实依然是 an invisible army of people 不是一群无形的人们 maintain roads 修养路 fuel furnace 制造燃料