雅思口語及寫作素材積累之青春

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Youth
    Samuel Ullman
    (1840-1924)
    青春來源:考試大
    塞繆爾·厄爾曼
    Youth is not a time of life ; it is a state of mind ; it is not a matter of rosycheeks, red lips and supple knees ; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigorof the emotions ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
    青春不是年華,而是心境;青春不是粉面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,燃燒的激情;青春是生命的源泉在涌流。
    Youth means a temperamentalpredominance of courage over timidityof the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merelyby a number of years. We grow oldby deserting our ideals.
    青春氣貫長虹,勇銳蓋過怯弱,進(jìn)取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣,年方二十有之,六十男子則更多見。年歲有加,并非垂老,理想丟棄,方墮暮年。
    Years may wrinklethe skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinklesthe soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    歲月悠悠,衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻,頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩,惶恐,喪失自信,定使心靈扭曲,意氣如灰。
    Whether sixty or sixteen,but there is in every human being's heart the lureof 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, so long are you young.
    無論年屆花甲,擬或二八芳齡,心中皆有生命之歡樂,奇跡之誘惑,孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一線追求,只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的,你就青春永駐,風(fēng)華常存。
    When the aerialsare down, and your spirit is coveerd with snows of cynicismand the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.
    一旦理想消失,銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋,玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生,即使年方二十,實已垂垂老矣;然則只要保持追求,樂觀向上,你就有望在百年高齡告別塵寰時青春尤在。