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YOUTH
Youth is not a time of life ;it is state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of hte will, a quality of the imagination, a 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 by 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,selfdistrust bows heart and turns the spring back to dust.
Whether 60 or 16,there is in every human being's heart the lureof wonder,the unfariling chidlike 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 20,but as long as your aerials are up,to catch waves of potimism,there is hope you may die young at 80.

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好棒！有翻译就更好了！

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青春

塞缪尔.厄尔曼

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面，丹唇，柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炽热的恋情；青春是生命的源泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯懦，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十年后生有之，六旬男子则更多见，年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢掉，方堕暮年。

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤，热忱抛却，颓唐必至灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩子般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一根天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好的信号，你就青春永驻，风华长存。

一旦天线降下，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭，自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣。然则只要你坚持接受乐观的信号，你就有望在百岁高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年青。