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.
青春⽓贯长虹,勇锐盖过怯弱,进取压倒苟安。如此锐⽓,⼆⼗后⽣⽽有之,六旬男⼦则更多见。
Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
年岁有加,并⾮垂⽼,理想丢弃,⽅堕暮年。
"It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside." —Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib
"那是六月,整个世界散发着玫瑰花的香味。阳光像金粉一样洒在草丛中的山坡上。”
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“所以随着阳光和树叶上大量的树叶生长,就像快节奏电影中的事情一样,我有一种熟悉的信念,即夏天的生活将重新开始。”
"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." —Henry James
对我来说,夏日的下午这几个字一直是英语语言中最美丽的两个单词。
" Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." —John Lubbock