英语专业晨读美文-哲理篇 5 About Youth

[00:00.74]About Youth
[00:03.80]No young man believes he will ever die.
[00:08.29] It was a saying of my brother's, and a fine one.
[00:12.23]There is a feeling of eternity¹ in youth,
[00:14.30]which makes us amend² for everything.
[00:16.71]To be young is to be as one of the immortal³ Gods.
[00:19.77] One half of time indeed is flown—
[00:22.40]the other half remains⁴ in store for us with all its countless⁵ treasures,
[00:26.77]for there is no line drawn⁶,
[00:28.63]and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes.
[00:31.48]We make the coming age our own—the vast,
[00:34.98]the unbounded prospect⁷ lies before us.
[00:38.36]Death, old age are words without a meaning
[00:41.65]that pass by us like the idea air which we regard not.
[00:45.59]Others may have undergone,
[00:47.55]or may still be liable to them—we "bear a charmed life",
[00:52.15] which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies.
[00:55.21]As in setting out on delightful⁸ journey,
[00:57.72] we strain our eager gaze forward—bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!
[01:02.75]And see no end to the landscape,
[01:05.16]new objects presenting themselves as we advance.
[01:08.33]So, in the commencement of life,
[01:10.63]we set no bounds to our inclinations⁹,
[01:13.58]nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them.
[01:17.30]We have as yet found no obstacle,
[01:19.81] no disposition¹⁰ to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever.
[01:24.96] We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion,
[01:28.35]and ceaseless progress;
[01:29.65]and feel in ourselves all the vigor¹¹ and spirit to keep pace with it,
[01:34.47]and do not foresee from any present symptoms
[01:37.42]how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things,
[01:41.25] decline into old age, and drop into the grave.
[01:44.86] It is the simplicity¹²,
[01:46.50]and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth,
[01:50.11] that identifies us with nature,
[01:52.08]and deludes¹³ us into a belief of being immortal like it.
[01:56.02] Our short lives connexion with existence we fondly flatter ourselves
[02:00.28] is an indissoluble and lasting¹⁴ union—
[02:03.56]a honeymoon¹⁵ that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation.
[02:08.16] As infants smile and sleep,
[02:10.89]we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies,
[02:14.50] and lulled¹⁶ into security by the roar of the universe around us
[02:18.66]—we quaff¹⁷ the cup of life with eager haste without draining it,
[02:22.70]instead of which it only overflows¹⁸ the more objects press around us,
[02:27.63]filling the mind with their magnitude and
[02:30.35] with the strong of desires that wait upon them,
[02:33.31]so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

1 eternity   

n.不朽，来世；永恒，无穷

参考例句：

• The dull play seemed to last an eternity.这场乏味的剧似乎演个没完没了。
• Finally,Ying Tai and Shan Bo could be together for all of eternity.英台和山伯终能双宿双飞，永世相随。

2 amend   

vt.修改，修订，改进；n.[pl.]赔罪，赔偿

参考例句：

• The teacher advised him to amend his way of living.老师劝他改变生活方式。
• You must amend your pronunciation.你必须改正你的发音。

3 immortal   

adj.不朽的；永生的，不死的；神的

参考例句：

• The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
• The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽！

4 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

5 countless   

adj.无数的，多得不计其数的

参考例句：

• In the war countless innocent people lost their lives.在这场战争中无数无辜的人丧失了性命。
• I've told you countless times.我已经告诉你无数遍了。

6 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

7 prospect   

n.前景，前途；景色，视野

参考例句：

• This state of things holds out a cheerful prospect.事态呈现出可喜的前景。
• The prospect became more evident.前景变得更加明朗了。

8 delightful   

adj.令人高兴的，使人快乐的

参考例句：

• We had a delightful time by the seashore last Sunday.上星期天我们在海滨玩得真痛快。
• Peter played a delightful melody on his flute.彼得用笛子吹奏了一支欢快的曲子。

9 inclinations   

倾向( inclination的名词复数 )； 倾斜； 爱好； 斜坡

参考例句：

• She has artistic inclinations. 她有艺术爱好。
• I've no inclinations towards life as a doctor. 我的志趣不是行医。

10 disposition   

n.性情，性格；意向，倾向；排列，部署

参考例句：

• He has made a good disposition of his property.他已对财产作了妥善处理。
• He has a cheerful disposition.他性情开朗。

11 vigor   

n.活力，精力，元气

参考例句：

• The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
• She didn't want to be reminded of her beauty or her former vigor.现在，她不愿人们提起她昔日的美丽和以前的精力充沛。

12 simplicity   

n.简单，简易；朴素；直率，单纯

参考例句：

• She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。
• The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。

13 deludes   

v.欺骗，哄骗( delude的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• In his work, he often deceives his superiors and deludes his subordinates. 工作中他常欺上瞒下。 来自互联网
• Hope often deludes the foolish man. 愚人常被希望骗。 来自互联网

14 lasting   

adj.永久的，永恒的；vbl.持续，维持

参考例句：

• The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
• We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。

15 honeymoon   

n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月

参考例句：

• While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
• The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。

16 lulled   

vt.使镇静，使安静（lull的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• They lulled her into a false sense of security. 他们哄骗她，使她产生一种虚假的安全感。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The movement of the train lulled me to sleep. 火车轻微的震动催我进入梦乡。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 quaff   

v.一饮而尽；痛饮

参考例句：

• We quaffed wine last night.我们昨晚畅饮了一次酒。
• He's quaffed many a glass of champagne in his time.他年轻时曾经开怀畅饮过不少香槟美酒。

18 overflows   

v.溢出，淹没( overflow的第三人称单数 )；充满；挤满了人；扩展出界，过度延伸

参考例句：

• He always fills his glass till it overflows. 他总是把杯子斟得很满。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• A distributary overflows its banks. 分流水溢出河岸。 来自辞典例句