02. 第二篇 Learning a Lifelong Career-朗读音频-英音

PASSAGE 2: Learning:a Lifelong Career

As food is to thebody, so is learning to the mind. Our bodies grow and muscles develop with theintake of food. Likewise, we should keep learning day by day to maintain ourmental power and expand our intellectual capacity.

Constant learningsupplies us with fuel for driving us to sharpen our power of reasoning,analysis, and judgement. Continuous learning is the best way to keep pace withthe times in the information age.

It is a commonmisunderstanding to regard school as the only place for the acquisition ofknowledge. On the contrary, learning should be an endless process, from thecradle to the grave. With the world changing so fast, to stop learning for justa few days will make a person lag behind.

Lack of learningwill inevitably lead to the stagnation of the mind, or even worse, itsfossilization. Therefore, to stay mentally young, we have to take learning as alifelong career.

学习之于心灵，就像食物之于身体一样。摄取了适量的营养食物，我们的身体得以生长而肌肉得以发达。同样地，我们应该日复一日不断地学习以保持我们敏锐的心智能力，并扩充我们的智力容量。

不断的学习提供我们用不尽的燃料，来驱使我们磨利我们的推理、分析和判断的能力。持续的学习是在信息时代中跟时代并驾齐驱的最稳当的方法。

视学校为汲取知识的唯一场所是种常见的谬误。相反地，学习应该是一种无终止的历程，从生到死。由于世界一直快速地在变动，只要学习停顿数日就将使人落后。

缺少学习将不可避免地导致心灵的停滞，甚至更糟地，使其僵化。因此，为了保持心理年轻，我们必须将学习当作一生的事业。