youth 青春

by  Samuel Ullman 作者 塞缪尔厄尔曼

Youth is not a time of life; it's a state a mind;青春不是年岁，而是一种心态。

it's not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;它无关于桃面、红唇和柔膝。

it's the matter of the will, the quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions;它是意志、创意和激情，

it's the freshness of the deep springs of life.是永不枯竭的生命之泉。

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for advanture over the love of ease.年轻意味着勇气超越怯懦、富有冒险精神而非安于现状的性情。

This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty.这种意志通常存在于60岁的老者而不是20岁的青年身上。

Nobody grows older merely by a number of years.没有人仅仅因为年岁的增长而变老。

We grow older by deserting our ideals.当放弃理想时，我们就老了。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.时间会在皮肤上留下痕迹，但是舍弃激情会让灵魂紧皱。

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the sprint back to dust.忧虑、恐惧和自我否定使灵魂扭曲、意气如灰。

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.无论是六十岁还是十六岁，每个人的心中都有对未知事物的好奇，像孩子般对未来事物的渴望，自己对人生乐趣的追求。

In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station;在你我的心中，都应该有一部无线电台。

so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from the man and the infinate, so long as you are young.只要它还从人类和宇宙中接收美、希望、勇气和能量的信号，你就还年轻着。

When the aerials are down, and your sprint is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you've 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.一旦天线倒了，你的灵魂就会被愤世嫉俗的冰雪覆盖、被消极厌世的冰凌包裹，即使年方二十，你也垂垂老矣；只要天线还在竖立着接收乐观的电波，即使你已八十高领、日薄西山，你也还年轻着。