ladies and gentlemen , good afternoon! i’m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech. today my topic is “youth”. i hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it.
first i want to ask you some questions:
1、do you know what is youth?
2、how do you master your youth?
youth
youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .
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 years . we grow old by deserting our ideals.
years 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 .
whether 60 of 16 , 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’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young .
when the aerials are down , and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old ,even at 20 , but as long as your aerials are up ,to catch waves of optimism , there is hope you may die young at 80.
thank you!
女士们,先生们,下午好!我很高兴站在这里给你们一个简短的演讲。今天我的主题是“青年”。我希望你能喜欢它,在你年轻的时候,发现的重要性,更珍惜它。
首先我想问你一些问题:
1,你知道什么是青春?
2,如何掌握你的青春呢?
青年
青春不是生命的一段时间,而是一种精神状态,它不是玫瑰色的脸颊,红色的嘴唇和柔软的膝盖,这是一个重要的情感:它是新鲜的,它是生命的深泉在涌流。
青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气概的食欲,对冒险的爱。这通常存在于一个60岁的人比一个20岁的青年更多一点。人老不仅仅是许多年。我们理想的毁灭,人类才出现了变老。
岁月,衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却,颓废必致灵魂。担心,恐惧,自我不信任弓精神回到心灵扭曲,意气如灰。
无论是60岁的16岁,每个人的心奇迹的诱惑,孩提般求知的渴望和游戏的快乐的生活。你的心和我的心的中心有一个无线电台:只要它接收消息的美、希望、鼓励、勇气和力量的男性和无限的,只要你是年轻人。
一旦天线倒塌,锐气被玩世不恭的霜雪和悲观厌世的冰层,那么你就老了,即使年方二十,但只要你的天线,捕捉乐观的信号,希望你可能英年早逝,享年80岁。
谢谢你!