青春 Youth（1/1）

塞缪尔·乌尔曼 / Sauel Uln

塞缪尔·乌尔曼（1840—1920），犹太人，生于德国，1851年随家人移民到美国密西西比。他虽以教育家和社会活动家而闻名于世，但在文学创作方面也很有才华。

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Read thefollog questiohe article.

1.As an old Chese sayg goes: An idle youth a needy age, if yiven a ce to choose beeen the o: “Life is all cakes and ale”and“Life is full of hard work and study”, which lifestyle will you choose? And stafe your reasons.

2.What’s the current tendency of ost young people’s life style?

3.In your opion, hoerson always reta his or her youthful vitality?

Youth is not a ti of life; it is a state of d; it is not a atter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a atter of the will, a quality of the iagation, a vigor of the eotions; it is the freshness of the deep sprgs of life.

Youth ans a teperantal predoance e over tiidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease.This oftesa an of sixty ore than a boy of enty.Nobody grows old rely by a nuber of years.We grow old by desertg our ideals.

Years ay wrkle the sk, but to give up enthias wrkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrt bows the heart and turns the sprg back to dt.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there isevery huan beg’s heart the re of wohe unfailg childlike appetite of what’sand the joy of the ga of livg.

Ier of your heart and y heart there is a wireless station: so long as it receives ssages of beauty, hope, cheer, urage and power fro n and fro the fite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is vered with snows of icis and the ice of pessiis, then yrown old, even at enty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optiis, there is hope you ay die young at eighty.