VOA常速英语，以其地道的发音、丰富的时事内容，成为提升英语听力与理解能力的关键途径。它不仅让全球听众即时了解世界动态，还促进了跨文化交流，对于英语学习者而言，是不可或缺的听力训练资源，对提升语言综合能力至关重要。让我们一起走进今天的VOA常速英语听力练习：人生如诗。

英文原文

I think that from a biological standpoint, human life almost reads like a poem. It has its own rhythm and beat, its internal cycles of growth and decay. 

我认为，从生物学的角度来看，人类的生命几乎就像一首诗。它有着自己的节奏和韵律，经历着生长与衰老的内部循环。

It begins with innocent childhood, followed by awkward adolescence, trying awkwardly to adapt itself to mature society with its young passions and follies, its ideals and ambitions. Then it reaches a manhood of intense activities, profiting from experience and learning more about society and human nature. 

它始于纯真的童年，接着是尴尬的青春期，带着年轻的激情与轻狂、理想与抱负，笨拙地尝试着适应成熟的社会。然后，它步入充满活力的成年期，从经验中获益，对社会和人性有了更多的了解。

At middle age, there is a slight easing of tension, a mellowing of character, like the ripening of fruit or the mellowing of good wine, and the gradual acquiring of a more tolerant, more cynical, and at the same time a kindlier view of life. Then, in the sunset of our life, the endocrine glands decrease their activity, and if we have a true philosophy of old age and have ordered our life pattern according to it, it is for us the age of peace and security and leisure and contentment. 

到了中年，紧张感稍有缓解，性格变得温和，就像果实成熟或美酒醇厚，逐渐获得了更加宽容、更加讽刺但同时又更加友善的人生观。然后，在我们生命的黄昏时刻，内分泌腺的活动减少，如果我们拥有真正的老年哲学，并按照它来规划我们的生活模式，那么对于我们来说，这就是一个和平、安全、悠闲和满足的时代。

Finally, life flickers out, and one goes into eternal sleep, never to wake up again.

最后，生命闪烁熄灭，人便陷入永恒的沉睡，再也无法醒来。

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