Youth | 有志者，皆青年今天是中国第99个青年节。青年节界定的

今天是中国第99个青年节。

青年节界定的青年范畴是14岁至28岁，

数字可以划分人群，但年轻的心从不受限。

德裔美籍散文家塞缪尔·厄尔曼（Samuel Ullman）曾于古稀之年

发表了一篇四百多字的短文，告诉人们：

青春年少的年龄虽然不能永恒，

但我们可以用坚定的信念、乐观的心态去铸就永恒的青春。

这篇题为Youth的文章一经刊发，便轰动全美，成为许多人的精神动力。

麦克阿瑟将军在指挥太平洋战争期间，始终将《青春》一文挂在办公室里以作激励，文中许多词句也常被他在作报告时引用；松下公司的创始人松下幸之助更是将《青春》作为他人生的座右铭；央视著名主持人董卿也曾用此文致敬著名刑事鉴识专家李昌钰博士。

无热血，不青春！

今天，就让我们通过这篇散文

和王佐良先生的译文，

一起感受对生命的热忱和信念！

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YOUTH 青春

作者：塞缪尔·厄尔曼译文：王佐良

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，炙热的情感；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exits in a man of sixty more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。

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.

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing child-like 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 infinite, so long are you young.

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and ice of pessimism, then you’ve grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there’s hope you may die young at eighty.

一旦天线倒塌，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；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

谁道人生无再少？门前流水尚能西！

青春是一种锐气，

无论是二八年华，还是八十高龄，

只要永葆对生命的热忱和坚定的信念，

青春就会永恒。

青年节快乐！

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