2011年7月22日星期五

Youth-青春

Youth-青春

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太平洋戰爭打得正酣之時,麥克阿瑟將軍常常從繁忙中抬起頭,注視著掛在墻上的鏡框,鏡框里是篇,名為《》。這篇文章一直伴隨著他,也跟著他到了日本。后來,日本人在東京的美軍總部發現了它,《》便開始在日本流傳。

一位資深的日本問題觀察說,在日本實業界,只要有者,沒有哪一個不熟知不應用這篇的,就連松下電器的創始人松下幸之助幾十年來也把《》當作他的座右銘。

還有這么一件趣事,足以證明《青春》在日本的魅力。一天,美國影片銷售協會主席羅森菲爾德參加日本實業界的聚會,晚宴之前的談話,他隨意說了一句:“《》的作者,便是我的祖父。”在座的各位實業界領袖大為驚訝,其中有一位一邊地說“我一直隨身帶著它呢”,一邊從口袋里掏出了《青春》。

《》是怎樣的一篇文章,它怎就這么神奇?

Coents by 魚化石:強烈建議將該文背誦,無論和譯文。后附的譯文是我見過的譯文中最美的,可謂與原文互為輝映,令人贊嘆不已。如此佳作,不敢私藏,獻與諸位共賞。可惜不知譯作者為何人,引為撼事。我在網上還看到過一些類似的譯文,是某些好事者在該譯文的基礎上根據自己對原文的理解自作聰明地進行了一些改動,卻往往詞不達意,破壞了原譯文的意境,猶如無瑕的白璧上非要鑲一塊金子,以顯該人的富足,不倫不類,令人啼皆非,后來者慎之。

YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a of ; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter ofrosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, aquality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of
the deep springs of life.

Youth means a tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of theappetite for adventure over the 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 may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,the unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of the game of . 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 the Infinite, so long are you 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.



塞繆爾·厄爾曼

不是年華,而是心境;不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝,而是深沉的意志,恢宏的想象,炙熱的;是的深泉在涌流。

青春氣貫長虹,勇銳蓋過怯弱,進取壓倒茍安。如此銳氣,二十后生而有之,六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加,并非垂老,丟棄,方墮暮年。

悠悠,衰微只及肌膚;熱忱拋卻,必致。憂煩,惶恐,喪失自信,定使扭曲,意氣如灰。

無論年屆花甲,擬或二八芳齡,心中皆有之歡樂,之,孩童般久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一臺天線,只要你從天上人間接受美好、、歡樂、和力量的信號,你就永駐,華常存。

一旦天線下降,銳氣便被冰覆蓋,玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生,即使年方二十,實已垂垂老矣;然則只要樹起天線,捕捉樂觀信號,你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。

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