[by:英语听力网|http://yingyu.chazidian.com||查字典英语网] [00:00.00]喜欢chazidian.com，就把chazidian.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Lesson 11 How to grow old [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. [01:03.43]如果怕死,就有点儿可怜又可鄙. [01:06.40]The best way to overcome it--so at least it seems to me-- [01:09.34]克服怕死的最好办法--至少在我看来是这样-- [01:12.28]is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, [01:15.70]就是逐渐使自己的兴趣更加广泛,逐渐摆脱个人狭小的圈子, [01:19.12]until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, [01:22.25]直到自我的围墙一点一点地倒塌下来, [01:25.37]and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. [01:28.54]自己的生活慢慢地和整个宇宙的生活融合在一起. [01:31.72]An individual human existence should be like a river-- [01:34.50]个人的存在应该像一条河流, [01:37.28]small at first,narrowly contained within its banks, [01:40.10]开始很小,被紧紧地夹在两岸中间, [01:42.92]and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls. [01:46.10]接着热情奔放地冲过巨石飞下瀑布. [01:49.27]Gradually the river grows wider,the banks recede,the waters flow more quietly, [01:53.40]然后河面渐渐地变宽,两岸后撤,河水流得平缓起来,河水流得平缓起来, [01:57.52]and in the end,without any visible break,they become merged in the sea, [02:01.30]最后连绵不断地汇入大海 [02:05.07]and painlessly lose their individual being [02:07.56]毫无痛苦地失去了自我的存在. [02:10.04]The man who,in old age can see his life in this way, [02:13.22]上了年纪的人这样看待生命, [02:16.41]will not suffer from the fear of death, [02:18.54]就不会有惧怕死亡的心情了, [02:20.67]since the things he cares for will continue. [02:23.15]因为自己关心的一切事物都会继续下去. [02:25.63]And if,with the decay of vitality,weariness increases, [02:28.87]再者,随着精力的衰退,老年人的疲惫感会增长, [02:32.11]the thought of rest will be not unwelcome. [02:34.59]有长眠愿望未尝不是件好事. [02:37.07]I should wish to die while still at work, [02:39.50]我希望工作到死为止, [02:41.93]knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do, [02:44.75]明白了有人会继续我的未竟事业, [02:47.58]and content in the thought that what was possible has been done [02:51.31]想到能做的事都做了,也就坦然了. [02:55.05]Lesson 12 Banks and their customers [02:59.12]银行和顾客 [03:03.20]First listen and then answer the following question. [03:05.78]听录音,然后回答以下问题. [03:08.37]Why is there no risk to the customer [03:10.59]为什么说, [03:12.81]when a bank prints the customer's name on his cheques? [03:15.19]银行把储户姓名印在其支票上对储户来说毫无风险? [03:17.56]When anyone opens a current account at a bank,he is lending the bank money, [03:20.99]任何人在银行开一个活期帐户,就等于把钱借给了银行. [03:24.41]repayment of which he may demand at any time [03:27.05]这笔钱他可以随时提取, [03:29.68]either in cash or by drawing a cheque in favour of another person. [03:33.22]提取的方式可以是取现金,也可以是开一张以他人为收款人的支票. [03:36.76]Primarily,the banker-customer relationship is that of debtor and creditor-- [03:38.33]银行与储户的关系主要是债务人和债权人的关系.