Reading for CET-4
光盘
作者： 金莉主编
出版社：世界图书出版西安公司,2008
简介： In the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our
inclinations, nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying
them, We have as yet found no obstacle,no disposition to flag; and
it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new
world, full of life,and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel
in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it,and do
not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind
in the natural course of things,decline into old age. and drop
into the grave. It is the simplicity, and as it were
abstractedness of our feelings in youth, that identifies us with
nature, and deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it.
Our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter
ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting uniona honeymoon that
knows neither coldness, jar. nor separation. As infants smile and
sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and
lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us we
quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it,
instead of which it only overflows the more-objects press around
us. filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of
desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the
thoughts of death.
