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1、ContentsIntroductionPart One：Growth Lesson One: Text A How to Grow Old by Bertrand Russell Text B University Days by James Thurber Lesson Two: Text A Youth by Samuel Ullman Text B Advice to Youth by Mark Twain Lesson Three: Text A Dream Children by Charles Lamb Text B In Search of Our Mothers Garden
2、s by Alice Walker Part Two: Nature Lesson One: Text A Once more to the Lake (Part 1) by E. B. WhiteText B Once more to the Lake (Part 2) by E. B. White Lesson Two: Text A The Fox by D. H. Laurence Text B The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf Lesson Three: Text A The Great Barn by Thomas Hardy Text
3、 B The Song of the River by William S. Maugham Part Three: Love Lesson One: Text A The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde Text B The Best Kind of Love by Anette Paxman Bowen Lesson Two: Text A A Love Letter by John Keats Text B In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust Lesson Three: Text A Three
4、Passions by Betrand Russel Text B Of Love by Fancis Bacon Part Four: The Art of Living Lesson One: Text A On Getting off to Sleep by J. B. Priestley Text B The Art of living by J. B. Priestley Lesson Two: Text A The Beauty Industry by Aldous Huxley Text B Work by Bertrand Russell Lesson Three: Text
5、A The Rewards of Living a Solitary Life by May Sarton Text B Solitude by Henry David Thoreau Part Five: Humanity Lesson One: Text A A Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel JohnsonText B A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Lesson Two: Text A Selected Snobberies by Aldous Huxley Text B Of Beauty by Fr
6、ancis Bacon Lesson Three: Text A The Seeing See Little by Helen Keller Text B Shooting an Elephant by George OrwellPart One: GrowthLesson OneText A: How to Grow Old by Bertrand RussellIn 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
7、 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 th
8、ree grandparents all lived to be over eighty. 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 the
9、 last day remained a terror to all her descendants. My maternal grandmother, after having nine children who survived, now who died in infancy, and many miscarriages, as soon as she became a widow devoted herself to womens higher education. She was one of the founders of Girton College, and worked ha
10、rd at opening the medical profession to women. She used to relate how she met in Italy and 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 grandchildren. “Good gracious,” she exclaimed, “ I have seventy-two grandch
11、ildren, and if I were sad each time I parted from one of them, I should have a dismal existence!” “Madrre 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 habitually spent the ho
12、urs from midnight to 3 a.m. in reading popular science. I do not believe that she ever had time to notice that she was growing old. This, I think, is the proper recipe for remaining young. If you have wide and keen interests and activities in which you can still be effective, you will have no reason
13、 to think about the merely statistical fact of the number of years you have already lived, still less of the probable brevity of your future. As regards health, I have nothing useful to say since I have little experience of illness. I eat and drink whatever I like, and sleep when I cannot keep awake
14、. I never do anything whatever on the ground that it is good for health, though in actual fact the things I like doing are mostly wholesome. Psychologically there are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in re
15、grets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. Ones thoughts must be directed to the future, and to things about which there is something to be done. This is not always easy; ones own past is a gradually increasing weight. It is easy to think to oneself that ones emotions use
16、d to be more vivid than they are, and ones mind more keen. If this is true it should be forgotten, and if it is forgotten it will probably not be true. The other thing to be avoided is clinging to youth in the hope of sucking vigour from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, un
