知天命

尽管我已经快到了知天命的岁数，但记忆却不那么糟糕。

I may be almost 50 , but there 's not a lot of things I 've forgotten

从知天命到制天命&论原始儒家生之伦理的实现方式生命看来似乎起源于40亿年前覆盖着地球的原始海洋。

On the Mode of Practice of Confucian Ethical Thought of Sheng Life seems to have originated in the primordial oceans that covered the Earth four billion years ago .

中国古代思想家孔子说：“四十而不惑，五十而知天命。”

Confucius , China 's ancient philosopher , says : " At forty I had no more doubts and at fifty , I knew the will of Heaven . "

另一方面，他肯定了人在自然界面前的主导作用和能动作用，尽人事而知天命就能“制天命而用之”，做到人定胜天，这种思想是战国后期人民战天斗地发展生产的反映。

On the other hand , he affirmed the dominant and positive power of human beings in nature and put forward the thought of " controlling fatality and making use of it . "

眼看着我就要迎来自己的知天命之年，不知道过去十年里都在尝试解开长寿之谜的比特纳先生，能不能让我在中途修正一下我的人生呢？

With my own half-century mark eerily visible on the horizon , could Mr. Buettner , who has spent the last 10 years unlocking the mysteries of longevity , offer me a midcourse correction ?

一篇学术论文有几十页，甚至是几百页。这些博士有的还是二十出头的小伙儿，有些已经是知天命的四十岁中年人了。

A thesis can be dozens of pages in mathematics , or many hundreds in history . As a result , newly minted PhDs can be as young as their early 20s or world-weary forty-somethings .