将学习视为终身事业
Take learning as a Lifelong Career
翻译
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind.
学习之于心灵，就想食物之于身体一样。
Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food.
摄取了足够的营养，我们的身体得以成长，肌肉得以发达。
Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.
同样的，我们应该日复一日的学习，以保持我们敏锐的心智能力，扩展我们的智力。
Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment.
不断的学习为我们提供了用之不竭的燃料，来驱使我们磨砺我们的推理、分析和判断能力。
Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and an infallible warrant of success in times of uncertainty.
持续的学习是在信息时代与时代并驾齐驱的最可靠的方法，也是变动的时代取得成功的保证。
Once learning stops, vegetation sets in.
一旦学习停滞，单调的生活就开始了。
It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge.
视学校为获取知识的唯一场所是一种常见的谬误。
On the contrary, learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave.
相反，学习应该是一个永无止境的过程，从生到死。
With the world ever changing so fast, the cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind.
随着变化如此之快的世界，只要停滞学习几天就会让一个人落后。
What's worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling for the refinement of our character.
更糟的是，蛰伏在我们潜意识深处的兽性本能就会复活，削弱我们追求高贵理想的意志，弱化我们扫除成功障碍的决心，扼杀我们净化人格的力量。
Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization.
缺乏学习将不可避免的导致思维的停滞，甚至更糟，会僵化掉。
Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.
因此，保持心理年轻，我们必须把学习作为一生的事业。
生词统计
| 单词 | 音标 | 翻译 |
|---|---|---|
| adequate | ˈædɪkwət | adj. 充足的、适当的、胜任的 |
| nutritious | nuˈtrɪʃəs | adj. 有营养的、滋养的 |
| keen | kiːn | adj. 敏锐的、敏捷的、渴望的、强烈的； n. 痛哭、挽歌 |
| capacity | kəˈpæsəti | n. 能力、容量、资格、地位 |
| inexhaustible | ˌɪnɪɡˈzɔːstəbl | adj. 用不完的、不知疲倦的 |
| incessant | ɪnˈsesnt | adj. 不断的、不停的、连续的 |
| infallible | ɪnˈfæləbl | adj. 绝对可靠的、绝无错误的； n. 永远正直的人、绝无谬误的事物 |
| warrant | ˈwɔːrənt | n. 根据、证明、正当理由、委任状； v. 保证、批准、担保 |
| fallacy | ˈfæləsi | n. 谬论、谬误 |
| cradle | ˈkreɪdl | n. 摇篮、发源地、发祥地； v. 抚育、把...放在摇篮里 |
| dormant | ˈdɔːrmənt | adj. 休眠的、静止的、睡眠状态的 |
| subconscious | ˌsʌbˈkɑːnʃəs | adj. 潜意识的、下意识的 |
| noble | ˈnoʊbl | adj. 高尚的、贵族的、惰性的、宏伟的； n. 贵族； v. 抓住、逮捕 |
| refinement | rɪˈfaɪnmənt | n. 改进、改善、有教养、精制、文雅 |
| inevitable | in'evitəbl | adj. 不可避免的 |
| stagnation | stæɡˈneɪʃn | n. 停滞、滞止 |
| fossilization | ˌfɑːsələˈzeɪʃn | n. 石化、僵化 |
原文阅读
As food is to the body, so is learning to the mind.
Our bodies grow and muscles develop with the intake of adequate nutritious food.
Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain our keen mental power and expand our intellectual capacity.
Constant learning supplies us with inexhaustible fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning, analysis, and judgment.
Learning incessantly is the surest way to keep pace with the times in the information age, and an infallible warrant of success in times of uncertainty.
Once learning stops, vegetation sets in.
It is a common fallacy to regard school as the only workshop for the acquisition of knowledge.
On the contrary, learning should be a never-ending process, from the cradle to the grave.
With the world ever changing so fast, the cease from learning for just a few days will make a person lag behind.
What's worse, the animalistic instinct dormant deep in our subconsciousness will come to life, weakening our will to pursue our noble ideal, sapping our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling for the refinement of our character.
Lack of learning will inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, its fossilization.
Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as a lifelong career.