青春與夢想

Ladies and Gentlemen , Good afternoon! I’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is “youth”. I hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it. Do you know what is youth? How do you master your youth?

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; 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 60 more than a boy of 20 . Nobody grows old merely by a number of years . We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years 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 60 of 16 , there is in every human being ‘s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of living . In the center of your heart and my heart there’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are 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 optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.

Thank you!


女士們，先生們，下午好！我很高興站在這里給你們作一個簡短的演講。今天我演講的題目是“青春”。我希望你會喜歡它，發現你年輕時的重要性，以便更加珍惜它。你知道什么是青春嗎？你如何掌握自己的青春？

青春不是生命的一段時光，而是一種心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是情感：青春是鮮活的，是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春意味著氣質上的勇氣多于怯懦的欲望，冒險勝過安逸的愛。一個60歲的男人比一個20歲的男孩多。沒有人僅僅因為歲月而變老。不思進取。

歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚，熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。擔憂、恐懼、缺乏自信會扭曲人的心靈，并使青春化為塵土。

不管16個人中有60個，每個人心中都有奇跡的誘惑，孩童般天真的胃口，渴望下一步的生活和游戲的樂趣。在你我的心底，都有一座無線電臺，它能在多長時間里接收到人間萬物傳遞來的美好、希望、歡樂、鼓舞和力量的信息，你就會年輕，直到永遠。

一旦天線倒塌，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄彌漫，即使年方20，實已垂垂老矣；但只要豎起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在80。

謝謝您!