英语杂谈：75 Youth

（单词翻译）

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

rosy¹ cheeks, red lips and supple² knees,it is a matter of the will, a
quality of the imagination, a vigor³ of the emotions.it is the freshness of
the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempera-mental 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, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.
whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure⁴ of wonder,
the unfailing childlike 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 wireless⁵
station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and
power from men and from the Infinite, you and I will remain young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism
and the ice of pessimism⁶, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as
your aerials are upto catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may have
young heart at 80.