征途在腳下,青春在飛揚(yáng)——致海大學(xué)子的一封信
青春不是年華,而是心境;青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志、恢宏的想像、熾熱的感情;青春是生命的深泉涌流。
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it isnot 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.
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青春氣貫長(zhǎng)虹,勇銳蓋過(guò)怯弱,進(jìn)取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣,二十后生有之,六旬男子則更多見(jiàn)。年歲有加,并非垂老;理想丟棄,方墮暮年。
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage overtimidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
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歲月悠悠,衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻,頹唐必致靈魂。憂煩、惶恐、喪失自信,定使心靈扭曲,意氣如灰。
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.
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無(wú)論年屆花甲,抑或二八芳齡,心中皆有生命之歡愉,奇跡之感召,孩童般天真久盛不衰。
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.
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人的心靈應(yīng)如浩淼瀚海,只有不斷接納美好、希望、歡樂(lè)、勇氣和力量的百川,才能青春永駐、風(fēng)華長(zhǎng)存。
In the center of your heart and my heart there is awireless 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.
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一旦心??萁撸J氣便被冰雪覆蓋,玩世不恭、 自暴自棄油然而生,即使年方二十,實(shí)已垂垂老矣;然則只要虛懷若谷,讓喜悅、達(dá)觀、仁愛(ài)充盈其間,你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時(shí)仍覺(jué)年輕。
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.
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