Youth / 青春

 

Youth By Samuel Ullman	青春 塞繆爾·厄爾曼
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 imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep spring of life.	青春並非一段人生歲月，而是一種心態；青春不在於桃腮朱唇、膝腿輕靈，而在於內心意志、想像之豐富、情感之充沛；它是生命泉源深處之清新鮮活。
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 the infinite, so long as you are young.	在你內心、也在我內心的中央，有一座無線電台：只要它從世人和無限時空源源接收的信息是美，是希望和鼓舞，是勇氣和力量，你便能長久青春。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you die young at 80. 【摘自“Youth”，作者 Samuel Ullman (1840–1924)，載《世界英文散文精粹》(修訂版)，江西文化音像出版社2004；該書自有中譯,但本譯者不取。】	一旦電台的天線倒下，你的精神陷入憤世如受雪埋，困於悲觀似遭冰封，那麼你雖年僅二十，卻已衰老；但天線若長久挺立，得以採集一波波的樂觀情緒，你便有望直到八旬壽終卻仍是青年。 (Tr. Allen Zhuang )
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