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[00:02.74]如何安度晚年
[00:05.49]First listen and then answer the following question.
[00:08.01]听录音,然后回答问题.
[00:10.53]What,according to the author,
[00:12.45]根据作者的看法,
[00:14.37]is the best way to overcome the fear of death as you get older?
[00:17.91]人们年长后,克服对死亡恐惧的最好办法是什么?
[00:21.45]Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.
[00:24.12]有些老年人因为怕死而感到烦恼.
[00:26.80]In the young there is a justification for this feeling.
[00:29.43]青年人有这种感觉是情有可原的.
[00:32.05]Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle
[00:34.99]有理由害怕自己会死在战场上的年轻人,
[00:37.93]may justifiably feel bitter in the thought
[00:40.45]他们感到痛苦是可以理解的,因为想到
[00:42.97]that they have been cheated of the best things that life has to offer.
[00:45.81]自己被剥夺了生活所能给予的最美好的东西.
[00:48.64]But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,
[00:51.97]可是老年人已经饱尝了人间的甘苦,
[00:55.30]and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,
[00:57.87]一切能做的都做了,
[01:00.45]the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.