新高考高中英语学习—读美文12学知识,积累英语作文写作素材：中年，老年（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

新高考高中英语学习—读美文12学知识,积累英语作文写作素材：中年，老年 （含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展） 说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。 当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。 读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（孙三五编辑） 导读 世界上最让人感觉无力的或许就是时间了，它无声无息地流逝，我们则一天天老去，这难免让人沮丧。在很多人看来，变老意味着失去活力和与年轻人做朋友的机会。但人到中年和老年并不只是代表失去，与之相伴而来的，还有岁月能够教给我们的智慧。譬如，待到年长，我们会明白，坦然面对自己的不足其实很简单，生活也会因此而多了一些自由自在。 正文 Middle Age, Old Age中年，老年 William Somerset Maugham 威廉·萨摩赛特·毛姆 It is not a very pleasant thing to recognize that for the young you are no longer an equal. You belong to a different generation. For them your race is run. They can look up to you; they can admire you, but you are apart from them, and in the long run they will always find the companionship of persons of their own age more grateful than yours. But middle age has its compensations. Youth is bond hand and foot with the shackles of public opinion. Middle age enjoys freedom. I remember that when I left school I said to myself: “Henceforward I can get up when I like and go to bed when I like.” That of cou