青春youth (美)塞繆爾?厄兒曼Ullman

Youth is 英語短文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 spring back to dust. Whether 60 or 16 years old, there is the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite and the joy of the game of living in every human beings heart. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

青春不是年華，而是英語短文心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、英語短文柔膝，英語短文而是英語短文深沉的意志、恢弘的英語短文想象、熾熱的英語短文感情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。青春氣貫長虹，英語短文勇銳蓋過怯弱，英語短文進取壓倒茍安。英語短文如此銳氣，英語短文二十后生有之，英語短文六旬男子則更多見。英語短文年歲有加，英語短文并非垂老；理想丟棄，英語短文方墮暮年。歲月悠悠，哀微肌膚，熱忱拋棄，頹唐，必致靈魂憂煩，惶恐、喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線，只要你從天上接受美好、歡樂和力量的信號，你就青春永駐、風華常存。一旦天線降下，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即便年方二十，實以垂老矣；然則只要豎起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。