权力是政治老人的青春,又是政治老人的延续生命的“救命稻草”。“一旦退休,过不了多久,我就会死去。一个人如果无事可做,那么活着还有什么意义?” 1954年12月,80岁的丘吉尔对他的医生洛德·毛里如是说。1951年10月,77岁的丘吉尔再次出任保守党政府首相,但那时他已力不从心,无法阻止大英殖民帝国的崩溃。4年后,深刻体会“大势已去”的他辞职退 Power is the youth of political elders, but also the life-sustaining life of the political elders. “Once I retire, it will not be long before I die, what does it mean if one can do nothing?” In December 1954, 80-year-old Churchill told his physician Lord Mauri . In October 1951, Churchill, 77, became the Conservative prime minister again, but at that time he was unable to stop the collapse of the British colonial empire. Four years later, he deeply realized that “the general trend has gone”, he resigned