YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life ; it is a state of mind ;

人生匆匆，青春不是易逝的一段。青春應是一種永恆的心態

it is not a matter of rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees ;

粉頰，朱唇，柔肢，這些都不是青春的全部

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 .

真正的青春，是堅強的意志，是恢宏的想象，是炙熱的情感，是生命之泉的清澈常新

Youth means temperamental predominance of courage over timidity , of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease .

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯懦，進取壓倒苟安

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 .

歲月的輪迴就必定導致衰老嗎？須知，老態龍鍾只是因為對理想的背棄

Years may wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul .

無情歲月的流逝，只在皮膚上留下深刻的皺紋，而熱忱的盡失，卻會在靈魂深處打下烙印

Worry ,fear , self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust .

焦慮、恐懼、自卑，終使心情沮喪，意志消亡

Whether 60 or 16 , there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder the unfailing childlike appetite for what's next and the joy of the game of living .

60歲也好，16歲也罷，每個人的心田都應保持童心不泯，去探知無盡的事物，去發現人生無窮樂趣

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 as you are young .

我們的心中都應有座無線電臺，只要不斷地接受來自人類和上帝的美感、希望、勇氣和力量，我們就會永葆青春

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 ,

倘若你收起天線，使自己的心靈蒙上玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰棱，即使你年方20，你已垂垂老矣

but as long as your aerials are up , to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80 .

倘若你已經80高齡，臨于辭世，若豎起天線去收聽樂觀進取的電波，你仍會青春煥發