美丽心灵晨读英语美文13: Youth 青春

　　导语：读者在听读该文时，重点注意以下单词和短语：exist vi. 存在;exist vi. 存在;wireless adj. 无线的;无线电的。为加深印象，小编又给每个重点词或短语配了一个精彩的例子。

　　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.

　　青春不是年华，而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，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 he skin, but to give up enthusiasm 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，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如友。

　　Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heat the lure of wonder, 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.

　　无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

　　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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

　　一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣;然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

　　注释：

　　exist vi. 存在

　　例句：The world exists, whether you like it or not.

　　不管你喜欢与否，这个世界照样存在。

　　enthusiasm n. 热心，热忱，热情

　　例句：She showed simulated enthusiasm towards us.

　　她向我们表示了虚假的热情。

　　wireless adj. 无线的;无线电的

　　例句：And we find ourselves cruelly cut off from the wireless world.

　　这时我们发现被无情地切断与无线世界的联系。