溢 制卧台贸易上兰 英汉商务翻译 mountains,plains,rivers,lakes--to the scale of the island itself.A mountain 12,000 feet high would be a horrible monster here,as wrong as a plain 400 miles long,a river as broad as the Mississippi.In America the whole scale is too big,except for aviators.There is always too much of everything.There you find yourself in a region that is all mountains,then in another region that is merely part of one colossal plain.You can spend a long,hard day in the Rockies simply traveling up or down one valley.You can wander across prairie country that has the desolating immensity of the ocean.Everything is too big;there is too much of it. 段塔练习二 How To Grow Old 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 important subject.My first advice would be to choose you 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.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 lived to the age of ninety-two,and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants.After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep,so she habitually spent the hours 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 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. 第2页共2页英汉商务翻译 mountains, plains, rivers, lakes -- to the scale of the island itself. A mountain 12,000 feet high would be a horrible monster here, as wrong as a plain 400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi. In America the whole scale is too big, except for aviators. There is always too much of everything. There you find yourself in a region that is all mountains, then in another region that is merely part of one colossal plain. You can spend a long, hard day in the Rockies simply traveling up or down one valley. You can wander across prairie country that has the desolating immensity of the ocean. Everything is too big; there is too much of it. 段落练习二 How To Grow Old 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 important subject. My first advice would be to choose you 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. 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 lived to the age of ninety-two, and to her last day remained a terror to all her descendants. After the age of eighty she found she had some difficulty in getting to sleep, so she habitually spent the hours 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 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. 第 2 页 共 2 页