每一天，听一篇美文｜ April. 18th, 2018

Youth is not a time of life

it is a state of mind

青春不是年华

而是心境

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

青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝

而是深沉的意志、宏伟的想象、炽热的感情

It is the freshness of the deep springs of life

青春是生命的深泉在涌流

Youth means a temperamental 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

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱

进去压倒苟安，如此锐气

二十后生有之，六旬男子则更多见

Nobody grows old merely by a number of years

We grow old by deserting our ideals

年年有加，并非垂老

理想丢弃，方堕暮年

Years may wrinkle the skin

but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤

热忱抛却，颓唐必至灵魂

 Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart

and turns the spirit back to dust

烦忧、惶恐、丧失自信

定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰

Whether 60 or 16

there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders

the unfailing appetite for what's next

and the joy of the game of living

无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄

心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑

孩童般天真久盛不衰

In the center of your heart and my heart

there is a wireless station

so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope

courage and power from man and from the infinite

so long as you are young

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 your aerials are down

and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism

and the ice of pessimism

then you've grown old

even at 20

一旦天线倒塌，锐气被冰雪覆盖

玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生

即使年方二十，实已垂老矣

but as long as your aerials are up

to catch waves of optimism

there's hope you may die young at 80

然则只要竖起天线

捕捉乐观的信号

你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉得年轻

@ Ready by Flora

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