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英语励志美文欣赏带译文 关于励志英语美文欣赏篇一 一个人何时变老 I dread to come to the end of the year,said a friend to me recently, it makes me realize I am growing old.” William James, the great psychologist, said that most men are old fogies at twenty-fiveHe was right. Most men at twenty-five are satisfied with their jobs. They have accumulated the little stock of prejudices that they call their Principles, and closed their minds to all new ideas; they have ceased to grow. The minutea man ceases to grow-no matter what his years- that minute he begins to be old. On the other hand, the really great man never grows old. Goethe passed out at eighty-three, and finished his Faust only a few years earlier; Gladstone took up a new language when he was seventy. Laplace, the astronomer, was still at work when death caught up with him at seventy-eight. He died crying, What we know is nothing; what we do not know is immense. And there you have the real answer to the question, When is a man old? Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn. As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , I grew, he is still young. The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, I know all that I need to know,--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old. “我惧怕临近岁末年尾”，一位朋友最近对我说：“它使我意识 到我正在变老。” 伟大的心理学家威廉·詹姆斯就曾说过，绝大部分人“25岁时就 成了守旧落伍者”。他的话是对的。绝大部分人25 岁时就满足于他们 的工作。他们已经积累了一些他们称之为“原则”的偏见，对所有新 的思想关闭心灵之门;他们已经停止成长。 一个人一旦停止成长--不管他年龄多大--他就开始衰老。反之， 真正的伟人从来不会衰老。 歌德享年83 岁，逝世前几年才完成《浮士德》;格莱斯顿70 岁 时又开始学习一门外国语;法国天文学家拉普拉斯78 岁死时还在工作 着。临死前，他大声喊道：“我们所知的太少太少，我们所不知的太 多太多。” “一个人何时变老?”，从这类事例中对这个问题你已经有了真 正的答案。 拉普拉斯78 岁逝世时依然年轻。他依旧不满足，依旧感到很多 东西要学。 一个人，只要他能够保持这种心态，只要他在回首过去的一年时 能