1、Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death.有些老年人因為怕死而感到煩惱。In the young there is a justification for this feeling.青年人有這種感覺是情有可原的。Young men who have reason to fear that they will be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the thought that they have been cheated of the best things that

2、life has to offer.有理由害怕自己會死在戰場上的年輕人，想到自己被剝奪了生活所能給予的最美好的東西時，感到痛苦，這是可以理解的。But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows,可是老年人已經經歷了人生的苦樂，and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do,一切能做的都做了，the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.如果怕死，就有點可憐又可鄙。The best way to overcome it-so at

3、least it seems to me-克服怕死的最好辦法至少在我看來是如此is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal,就是逐漸使自己的興趣更加廣泛，until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede,逐步擺脫個人狹小的圈子，直到自我的圍墻一點一點地倒塌下來，and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.自己的生活慢慢地和整個宇宙的生活融合在一起。An individual human exis

4、tence should be like a river-small at first,個人的存在應該像一條江河開始很小，narrowly contained within its banks,被緊緊地夾在兩岸之中，and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.然后熱情奔放地沖過巨礫和瀑布。Gradually the river grows wider,然后河流漸漸變寬，the banks recede,兩岸后退，the waters flow more quietly,河水較為平靜地流著，and in the end,w

5、ithout any visible break,they become merged in the sea,最后連綿不斷地匯入大海，and painlessly lose their individual being.毫無痛苦地失去了自我的存在。The man who,in old age,can see his life in this way,人到老年如能這樣看待生命，will not suffer from the fear of death,就不會有懼怕死亡的心情了，since the things he cares for will continue.因為自己所關心的一切事物仍將繼續下去。And it,with the decay of vitality,再者，隨著精力的衰退，weariness increases,the thought of rest will be not unwelcome.老年人的疲倦感會增長，有長眠的想法未嘗不是一件樂事。I should wish to die while still at work,我希望工作到死為止，knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do,明白了