英语美文欣赏

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courageover timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love ofease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a boy oftwenty. 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。