首页
登录
职称英语
There are faults which age releases us from, and there are virtues which tur
There are faults which age releases us from, and there are virtues which tur
游客
2025-04-26
33
管理
问题
There are faults which age releases us from, and there are virtues which turn to vices with the lapse of years. The worst of these is thrift, which in early and middle life is wisdom and duty to practice for a provision against destitution. As time goes on this virtue is apt to turn into the ugliest, cruelest, shabbiest of the vices. Then the victim of it finds himself storing past all probable need of saying for himself or those next him, m the deprivation of the remoter kin of the race; In the earlier time when gain was symbolized by gold or silver, the miser had a sensual joy in the touch of his riches, in hearing the coins clink in their fall through his fingers, and in gloating upon their increase sensible m the hand and eye. Then the miser had his place among the great figures of misdoing; he was of a dramatic effect, like a murderer or a robber; and something of this bad distinction clung to him even when his coins had changed to paper currency, the clean, white notes of the only English bank, or the greenbacks of our innumerable banks of issue; but when the sense of riches had been transmuted to the balance in his favor at his banker’s, or the bonds in his drawer at the safety-deposit vault, all splendor had gone out of his vice. His bad eminence was gone, but he clung to the lust of gain which had ranked him with the picturesque wrong-doers, and which only ruin from without could save him from, unless he gave his remnant of strength to saving himself from it. Most aging men are sensible of all this, but few have the frankness of that aging man who once said that he who died rich died disgraced, and died the other day in the comparative poverty of fifty millions. [br] The passage implies that what could stop a miser from lusting for money might be ______.
选项
A、his frankness
B、his eminence
C、his death
D、his glory
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4054174.html
相关试题推荐
Therearefaultswhichagereleasesusfrom,andtherearevirtueswhichtur
Therearefaultswhichagereleasesusfrom,andtherearevirtueswhichtur
Therearefaultswhichagereleasesusfrom,andtherearevirtueswhichtur
DespiteDenmark’smanifestvirtues,Danesnevertalkabouthowproudtheyar
DespiteDenmark’smanifestvirtues,Danesnevertalkabouthowproudtheyar
DespiteDenmark’smanifestvirtues,Danesnevertalkabouthowproudtheyar
Everyyear,theAmericanLungAssociation(ALA)releasesitsannualreportca
Everyyear,theAmericanLungAssociation(ALA)releasesitsannualreportca
Everyyear,theAmericanLungAssociation(ALA)releasesitsannualreportca
Everyyear,theAmericanLungAssociation(ALA)releasesitsannualreportca
随机试题
Sinceancienttimes,peoplehavedreamedofleavingtheirhomeplanetandexpl
Oneoftheadvantagesofmostpaidworkisthatitgiveschancesofsuccess
Anewsystemofqualitycontrolwas______toovercomethedefectsinthefirm’s
通过竞争醛固酮受体而发挥利尿作用的药物是()A.氨苯蝶啶 B.乙酰唑胺
蛋白质-能量营养不良的最主要病因是A、喂养不当 B、久吐、久泻 C、早产
相当于西医的颈部淋巴结转移癌和原发性恶性肿瘤的疾病是A.肉瘤 B.血瘤 C.
大批赴美志愿者汉语教师在美国校园和社区内担当着文化使者的角色。来自四川的高中教师
关于国际投资法相关条约,下列哪些表述是正确的?(2013年)A.依《关于解决国家
如果一国出现国际收支逆差,该国外汇供不应求,则该国本币兑外汇的汇率的变动将表现为
银行承兑汇票的承兑银行,应当按照票面金额向出票人收取()的手续费。A:千分之一
最新回复
(
0
)