【正文】
eeks, red lips and supple knees。 it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. 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. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, selfdistrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of whats 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. 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, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80. 翻譯:青春不是年華,而是心境。青春是生命的深泉在涌流。如此銳氣,二十后生而有之,六旬男子則更多見?! q月悠悠,衰微只及肌膚。憂煩,惶恐,喪失自信,定使心靈扭曲,意氣如灰。人人心中皆有一臺(tái)天線,只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號(hào),你就青春永駐,風(fēng)華常存。然則只要樹起天線,捕捉樂觀信號(hào),你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺年輕