小故事

Youth
青春
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, vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep spring 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、炽热的情感；青春是生命的深泉在不息的涌流。
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 60, more than a boy of twenty. Nobody grows merely by the number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideas.
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯懦，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。
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，颓唐必至灵魂。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 childlike 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 as you are young.
无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，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收美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华长存。
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with the snows of cynicism and the 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，即便年方二十，实已垂垂老矣。然则只要坚起天线，捕捉乐观的信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. state of mind
（某一特定时刻的）情绪，心态；
eg. I want you to get into a whole new state of mind.
我想让你有一个全新的心态。
eg. What's vital is the state of mind in which you proceed.
重要的是你在处理这件事情中的心境是什么样的。
2. give up
放弃；戒除；
eg. When life gets hard and you want to give up, remember that life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.
当生活很艰难，你想要放弃的时候，请记住，生活充满了起起落落，如果没有低谷，那站在高处也失去了意义。
eg. They'll have to give up completely on certain of their studies.
他们将不得不彻底放弃某些研究。
3. so long as/as long as
只要；
eg. So long as the confidence building, deals calm, could cross this crisis.
只要树立信心，沉着应对。就能渡过这场危机。
eg. "There is always hope, as long as you don't give up, " she said in her characteristic resolute voice.
她用自己特有的，坚毅的声音表达到：“只要你不放弃，总会有希望。”
4. be covered with
盖在…上面；铺在…上面；
eg. Buildings old and new are thickly covered with graffiti.
新老建筑上都有密密麻麻的涂鸦。
eg. The front of the building was covered with ivy.
大楼的正面爬满了常春藤。