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YOUTH Samuel Ullman
哲学与社会学学院 思想政治教育专业 英语文
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, vigor 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 lure 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 wireless station: so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer,
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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.
New words:
Predominance [pri'dɔminəns] n. 优势；卓越 Timidity [/ti'midəti/] n. 胆怯，胆小；羞怯
Self-distrust [,selfdis'trʌst] n. 没有信心；畏缩；自疑 lure [ljuə] n. 诱惑；饵；诱惑物 vt. 诱惑；引诱 pessimism ['pesimizəm] n. 悲观，悲观情绪；厌世主义
cynicism ['sini,sizəm] n. 玩世不恭，愤世嫉俗；犬儒主义；冷嘲热讽 aerials ['ɛrɪəl ]n. 天线（aerial的复数）；空中特技
Comment:
The Youth is a famous prose by Samuel ullman's who is a famous
American writer. The writer lament the youth is fleeting in the article, but he said the real youth should be a kind of strong will.We can always young as long as optimistic .
After reading the article, I think we should face all kinds of difficult in life
optimistically and bravely.
