原文出自于Samuel Ullman ?YOUTH狮辽，雖然篇幅不長卿樱，但不失為英語語言文學(xué)中不可多得的勵(lì)志佳作之一梦碗。
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.
青春并非生命中的一段時(shí)光喘沿，青春是一種精神狀態(tài)必孤。它無關(guān)乎面如桃花猾骡，唇似花瓣，敏捷如豹，它代表著堅(jiān)定的意志力兴想，優(yōu)質(zhì)的想象力幢哨，豐富細(xì)致的情感，青春是永不枯竭的生命之泉嫂便。
Youth means a tempera-mental 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.
青春賦予你一鼓作氣的精神嘱么，令你拿出勇氣戰(zhàn)勝膽怯，用冒險(xiǎn)的欲望戰(zhàn)勝對安逸的渴求顽悼。這種精神常陈瘢可以在年過花甲之人身上找到，20多歲的小伙子卻未必?fù)碛形盗]有人僅僅因?yàn)橛涗浤挲g的數(shù)字而衰老冰评，人之所以會(huì)老是因?yàn)樗枷胍芽萁摺?/p>
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirits back to dust.
歲月能夠在皮膚上刻下印記，卻奈何不了一顆充滿熱情的靈魂木羹。焦慮甲雅、恐懼、自暴自棄摧殘了心靈坑填，湮滅了士氣抛人。
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike 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.
不論你是六十歲還是十六歲，每個(gè)人的心中都渴望奇跡脐瑰，對于未知的一切與生活中的愉快都有孩子般熱切的期許妖枚。在你我的心底，有一臺(tái)看不見的信號(hào)接收器苍在，只要它還在不斷接收美好绝页、希望，喜悅寂恬、勇氣以及來自人們的無窮大的力量续誉，你就是年輕的。
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.”
一旦接收信號(hào)的天線倒下了初肉，你的精神就會(huì)被憤世嫉俗和悲觀主義的大雪埋沒酷鸦，那么，即便你只有20歲牙咏，你也老了臼隔；但是，只要你還在不斷接受樂觀主義的電波眠寿，那么躬翁，你就極有可能在80高齡的青春中溘然長逝！
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