·第一篇：Youth 青春

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, 青春不是生命中的一段时间，它是心灵上的一种状态；它不是红润的脸陜、 red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a 嘴唇和柔软的膝盖的物体；它是一种意愿的东西，一种想象的质量，一种 vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

情感的精力；它是生命深处里新鲜的春天.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the 青春意味着一种气质的卓越，勇敢胜于胆怯，

appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more 冒险的欲望胜于对安逸的喜好。这通常存在于一个60岁的男人

than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old 多于一个20岁的男孩。没有人仅通过许多年就成熟。我们通过遗弃我们的理想 by deserting our ideals.

而成长

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, 岁月也许会使皮肤发皱，但是放弃你的热情就会使你的精神疲劳。担忧、 fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

恐惧、畏缩使心灵歪曲并使你的精神回归于3无。

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being s heart the lure of wonders, the 无论是60还是16，在每个人心中都有好奇心的诱惑：

unfailing appetite for what s next and the joy of the game of living. In the center 对未来无尽的欲望与对生活游戏的乐趣。

of your heart and my heart, there is a wireless station; so long as it receives 在你我的心中，有个无线电站，只要它收到

messages of beauty, hope, courage and power from man and from the infinite, 来自于人并无穷的美丽、希望、勇气和力量的信息，

so long as you are young.

只要你年轻。

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism 当你的天线掉下时，你的精神将被冷嘲热讽的雪和悲观的冰覆盖

and the ice of pessimism, then you ve grown old, even at 20; but as long as your ，然后你就成熟了，甚至在20岁时，只要你的天线是直的，捕捉到乐观向上的 aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there s hope you may die young at 80. 电波，你就有希望死在年轻的80岁。

·第二篇： Three Days to See(Excerpts)假如给我三天光明（节选）

All of us have read thrilling stories in which the hero had only a limited and 我们全部都看过哪些英雄只有一段有限的规定的

specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 刺激的时间去生存。有时是长达一年的时间，有事是短短的24小时。

24 hours. But always we were interested in discovering just how the doomed hero 但是我们总会乐于发现注定的英雄