年轻

塞缪尔·厄尔曼——《年轻》 年轻，并非人生旅程中一段时光，它是心灵中的一种状态，并非粉颊红唇和体魄的矫健，而是头脑中的一个意念，是理性思维中的创造潜力，是情感活动中的一股勃勃朝气，是人生春色深处的一缕清新。 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 refreshness of the deep springs of life. 年轻，意味着甘愿放弃温馨浪漫的爱情去闯荡生活，意味着超越羞涩、怯懦和欲望的胆识与气质。而六十岁的男人可能比二十岁的小伙子更多地拥有这种胆识和气质。没有人仅仅因为时光的流逝而变得衰老，只是随着理想的毁灭，人类才出现了老人。 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 sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. 岁月可以在皮肤上留下皱纹，却无法为灵魂刻上一丝痕迹。忧虑、恐惧、缺乏自信才使人佝偻于时间的尘埃之中。 Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. 　 无论是六十岁还是十六岁，每个人都会被未来所吸引，都会对人生竞争中的欢乐怀着孩子般无穷无尽的渴望。在你我心灵的深处，同样有一个无线电台，只要它不停地从人群中、从无限的时空中接受美好、希望、欢欣、勇气和力量的信息，你我就永远年轻。 Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the 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. 一旦这无线电台坍塌，你的心便会被玩世不恭和悲观绝望的寒冰酷雪所覆盖，你便衰老了－－即使你只有二十岁，但如果这座电台始终矗立在你的心中，捕捉着每一个乐观向上的电波，你便有希望死于年轻的八十岁。