400字寫青春，你會寫什么？(附音頻)

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本文的作者薩繆爾·厄爾曼 1840年生于德國，兒時隨家人移居美利堅，參加過南北戰(zhàn)爭，之后定居伯明翰，經(jīng)營五金雜貨，年逾70開始寫作?！肚啻骸芬晃膬H400字，道出了青春的真諦，原文譯文都有著自己最獨特韻味。

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.

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 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 body of twenty.Nobody grows old merely by a number of years.We grow old by deserting our ideals.

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣，二十后生有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，并非垂老;理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

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.

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。

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.

無論年屆花甲，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。