《年轻》，塞缪尔·厄尔曼

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《年轻》是塞缪尔·厄尔曼所写的文章。

《年轻》是德裔美籍人塞缪尔·厄尔曼70多年前写的一篇只有四百多字的短文，至今已有70余年，魅力依然不减，其优美的语句成为很多英文学习者必背的范文，并以其深刻的思想成为很多人的座右铭。

《年轻》的最佳翻译如下：

年轻，并非人生旅程的一段时光，也并非粉颊红唇和体魄的矫健。它是心灵中的一种状态，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的朝气，是人生春色深处的一缕东风。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60岁的男人可能比20岁的小伙子，更多地拥有这种胆识与气质。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。忧虑、恐惧、缺乏自信才使人佝偻于时间尘埃之中。无论是60岁还是16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。一旦这无线电台坍塌，你的心便会被玩世不恭和悲观失望的寒冷酷雪所覆盖，你便衰老了-即使你只有20岁。所以，只要勇于有梦，敢于追梦，勤于圆梦，我们就永远年轻！千万不要动不动就说自己老了，错误引导自己！年轻就是力量，有梦就有未来！

英文《Youth》《年轻》原文：

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 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 sixty more than a boy of twenty. 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 spirit back to dust. 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. 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 twenty , but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.