美文发布:奇速英语 发布时间:Nov 24, 2015 4:02:57 PM
Youth青春 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. 青春不是生命的一段时光,而是一种精神状态,它不是玫瑰色的脸颊,红色的嘴唇和柔软的双膝;而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,炙热的恋情;青春是生命的深泉在涌流。 Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 青春气贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。如此锐气,二十后生而有之,六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加,并非垂老,理想丢弃,方堕暮年。 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. 岁月悠悠,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,则在心灵上刻下皱纹。忧烦,惶恐,丧失自信,定使心灵扭曲,精神蒙尘。 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heat the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of 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, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite,