英語聽力材料《青春是什麼》大綱

對於青春，你會想起些什麼?你覺得青春是什麼?下面這篇英語聽力也許會告訴你答案。

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and suppleknees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, and a vigor of the emotions; it is thefreshness of the deep springs of life.

青春,並非人生的一段時光,而是一種精神狀態;亦非粉頰紅脣和冰肌柔骨，而是剛強的意志、靈秀的想像和充滿活力的`情感;它是使生命之泉永不枯竭的常青樹。

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 grow old by deserting our ideals.

青春,意味着一種非凡氣質：敢做敢為而不怯懦退縮、甘冒 風險而不貪戀安逸。在一位60歲老者的身上，這種氣質的存在 可能甚於20歲的小夥子。沒有人會單單由於歲月的流逝而衰 老,有的人卻因為放棄理想而老態龍鍾。

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrustbows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

流年時光可以在皮膚上留下皺紋，而熄滅熱情則會使心靈 起皺。憂慮、恐懼和缺乏自信只會使人心胸狹隘,心灰意冷。

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing childlikeappetite 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 the Infinite, so long are you young.

不管是60歲還是16歲，每個人的心裏都會被新奇事物所 吸引，都會像孩子一樣對未來洋溢着無窮無盡的憧憬,都會在生 活的遊戲(境遇)之中獲取歡樂。在你我心靈的深處,都有一座 無線電台：只要它從人羣中間和造物主那裏接收到美、希望、鼓 勵、勇氣和力量的電波，你我就會青春常在。

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice ofpessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves ofoptimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

一旦這座電台的天線收攏，一旦玩世不恭的冷雪和悲觀絕 望的寒冰覆蓋了你的心靈，即使你只有20歲，也未老先衰了;但 是隻要它的天線始終豎立在你的心中，捕捉着每一個樂觀向上 的電波，縱使你80而逝之時也會青春永駐。