英汉全文对照-How-to-grow-old.doc

How to Grow Old怎么变老 by Bertrand Russelll伯特兰.罗素 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 at the age of sixty-seven, but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty.尽管标题如此，但我真正要讲的却是如何阻止变老，对于活到我这个岁数的人来说，这是更重要的主题。首先，我建议你慎重地选择你的祖辈父辈。虽然我父母早逝，但在选择其他祖辈的时候，我很明智。这是真的！我外祖父67岁逝世，正值盛年，我其他三个祖父母都生活了80多个春秋。 Of remoter ancestors I can only discover one who did not live to a great age, 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, 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. 在远房的上辈中，我只发现一个人并不长寿，他死于一种现在很罕见的疾病，叫做“脑梗塞”。我的一个曾祖母，是吉朋的朋友。她活到了92岁，临终时所有的后辈都很敬重并爱戴她。我外祖母的孩子，九个存活下来，一个死于婴儿时期，还有许多流产了。此后，她成了寡妇，致力于女子高等教育。 She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked hard at opening the medical profession to women. She used to relate how she met in Italy an elderly gentleman who was looking very sad. She inquired the cause of his melancholy and he said that he had just parted from his two grand-children.她是格顿女子学院的创立人之一，并为实现女性从事医疗职业而尽心竭力。她曾说过在意大利遇到过一位神情忧伤的年老绅士。问他为什么伤心，老人回答说他刚跟他的两个孙孩儿告别。 Good gracious, she exclaimed, I have seventy-two grandchildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence! Madre snaturale, he replied. But speaking as one of the seventy-two, I prefer her recipe. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep, so she habi