青年
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Youth
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第1段
People are always talking about "the problem of youth". If there is one—which I take leave to doubt—then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings—people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.
人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。如果这个问题存在的话——请允许我对此持怀疑态度——那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。让我们先从根本说起，承认年轻人毕竟也是人，和年长者一样。老年人和青年人只有一个区别：青年人身前有光辉前景，而老年人的辉煌前景已成身后往事。这可能是问题的症结所在。
第2段
When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain—that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
我十几岁时，只觉得自己年轻而迷茫，就像一所大学校里刚入学的新生；如果那时有人把我看成“一个问题”这样有趣的存在，我倒会很高兴。至少，被当成“一个问题”能让人获得一种明确的身份认同，而年轻人正忙着寻找这样的认同。
第3段
I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders—as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.
我觉得青年人令人振奋，无拘无束。 他们既无卑鄙的野心，也不贪图安逸。他们不会急切地向上爬，也不沉溺于物质享受。在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源相连。从某种意义上讲，青年人似乎超凡脱俗，同我们凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对比。每次我遇到青年人，脑子里全是他们的超凡脱俗。青年人或许狂妄自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，或愚昧无知，但我不会用长幼有序这种陈词滥调来为自己辩护，仿佛仅仅年长就理应受到尊重。我认为我们是平等的。如果我觉得他们错了，我就以平等的身份和他们据理力争。
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