Enjoy Reading（2）

Youth  年轻是一种心态

Enjoy Reading（2）

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees;  it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imaginetion, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.青春不是年岁，而是一种心态。它与桃面，丹唇，柔膝无关；它是意志，创意和激情；它是永不枯竭的生命之泉。

Vigor:活力。同义词：energy

vigorous:有活力的。~voice，~plants ，~effort

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.青春是自强不息，战胜怯懦，是勇往直前，不图苟安。

Predominate over...占主导地位

a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity：性情上勇气战胜懦弱

The appetite for :对...的欲望

the unfailing child-like appetite of: 始终不变的孩童般的渴望

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism（愤世） and the ice of pessimism（悲观）, then you've grown old, even at twenty, bua as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism（乐观）, there is hope you may die young at eighty.倘若你收起天线，是自己的心灵蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰凌，即使你年方二十，你也垂垂老矣；倘若你已经八十高龄，临于辞世，若仍能竖起天线去接受乐观进取的电波，你仍会青春焕发。