英語美文欣賞︱你何時開始變老？

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背景音樂：《Twilight s Embrace》by Kevin Kern

And there you have the real answer to the question, "When is a man old?"

「一個人何時變老？」，從這類事例中對這個問題你已經有了真正的答案。

Laplace at seventy-eight died young. He was still unsatisfied, still sure that he had a lot to learn.

拉普拉斯78歲逝世時依然年輕。他依舊不滿足，依舊感到許多東西要學。

As long as a man can keep himself in that attitude of mind, as long as he can look back on every year and say , "I grew," he is still young.

一個人，只要他能夠保持這種心態，只要他在回首過去的一年時能夠說「我在成長」，他就依然年輕。

The minute he ceases to grow, the minute he says to himself, "I know all that I need to know,"--that day youth stops. He may be twenty-five or seventy-five, it makes no difference. On that day he begins to be old.

他一旦停止成長，他一旦對自己說「我該懂的都懂了」，這個時候他的青春也就完了。他可能在25歲時死去，也可能在75歲時死去，這都沒有區別。就在那一天，他開始變老。

【今日加油站】

cease to 停止做

If I cease to read the Beauty of Words for only one day, I feel kinda empty.

當我停止一天不看美文， 我就覺得心裡有點空空的。

I can t cease to go on a diet cause my wedding day is coming.

我不能停止節食因為我馬上就要結婚了。

make no difference 沒什麼作用， 都一樣

He still has no interst in me. It makes no differene for me to go after him.

他還是對我沒興趣， 我追他沒什麼效果呀！

You overdid it. It makes no difference to explain.

你做得太過了，解釋也沒什麼用。

make a difference in someone or in something 給某個人或事物帶來顯著地改變

My new haircut makes a quite difference in my career.

我的新髮型給我的事業帶來很大的變化。

make a difference 也有創造不同的意思， 如果加to someone 的話可以意為「對某人有影響」

依稀記得奧普拉曾經說過一句話， 大概是她所有的努力都是為了想創造不同。

All my efforts are for making a difference.

I born to make a difference.

我為創造不同而生。

看那個視頻到現在已經有很多年了， 我只想說: It really makes a difference to me"

希望今天的英語美文也能make a difference to you.

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