原版英语口语情景对话第0370集：谈论年纪大的优缺点.doc

1、上了年纪很多以前轻易能做到的事都难做到了，但年纪大也不全是缺点，丰富的阅历是用时间换取的。 Adrienne: Now, Vivian, do you mind me asking how old you are?Vivian: I was 80 years old on November 3rd, 2019. Adrienne: Wow! 80! What does it feel like to be 80?Vivian: Its a little inconvenient because my mind didnt turn 80 but my body did and I find i

2、t sometimes my mind follows my body too! And its hard to be as quick as I used to be and I always want to do more, now than I able to do. I cant do what I used to do when I was younger. Adrienne: Oh, thats disappointing and probably a little frustrating.Vivian: Very frustrating! Very frustrating! Es

3、pecially when you have been active all of your life and all of a sudden things are just, have slowed down to where you cant do all those running around, flying around tasks that you used to be able to do in the morning. Sometimes it takes me two days to get everything accomplished. Well those are de

4、finite disadvantages to getting older. Are there any advantages? Can you give us some hope? Yes! Yes! There is hope. You have reached an age where you understand where you have been. Im very fortunate that I lived in the 1900s. I was born in 1924. I saw the airplane invented. I saw the beginning of

5、penicillin. I saw the medication for polio which stopped it in its track. I saw so many things. World War II. I was married in World War II and my husband went overseas for two years during that time, and my first two years of marriage was by letters, so it was, its a good time, 80, you look back on

6、 all those things and youre glad to be part of it. You begin to understand the changes that are taking place just as they took place when you were young, but you dont come to that realization until you become old. You dont become wiser. You just become more knowledgeable. Adrienne: Well, that doesnt sound so bad.