逍遥右脑 2016-01-01 12:23
Youth 青春
Youth
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, so long as you are young.
When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at 80.
译文：
青春
青春不是年华，而是心情;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深厚的意志，恢宏的设想，炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒偷安。如斯锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年纪有加，并非垂老，幻想抛弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤;热情抛却，颓丧必致灵魂。忧烦，惊慌，损失自负，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有性命之欢快，奇观之引诱，孩童般无邪久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只有你从天上世间接收美妙、盼望、欢喜、勇气跟力气的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。 、
一旦天线降落，锐气便被冰雪笼罩，玩世不恭、自强不息油然而生，即便年方二十，实已渐渐老矣;然则只要树起天线，捕获乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄离别尘寰时仍觉年青。