英语美文欣赏Youth.ppt

Youthby Samuel Ullman Analysis and Translation Paulcheng 纠结 I am torn Off-season shopping 反季淘 宰人 Rip off jockeying for position, in public and in private Spoiler 剧透 Office politics Suck up to 马屁精 Apple polisher/boot licker/ suck-up dog newbie 网络新手；新兵；菜鸟 大片 blockbuster 关于作者：About the Poet Migrant：生于犹太家庭，与父母从德国移民美国 Soldier：美国内战时加入南方邦联军队，受伤，耳聋。 Businessman 战争结束后从商 Congregational Activist宗教活动人士，热心犹太教教团活动，大众公益事务， City Alderman ：市政议员 Poet：退休后写诗，写散文。 背景：About the poem 受影响者：美国将军麦克阿瑟General Douglas MacArthur 松下幸之助：Matsushita Kounosukeまつしたこうのすけ 有几个版本Versions “you are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt,” etc., is missing in From the Summit of Years 背景2 【年轻】有的版本译为【青春】。是德裔美籍人塞缪尔.厄尔曼70多年前写的一篇只有四百多字的短文。据说美国的麦克阿瑟将军在指挥整个太平洋战争期间，办公桌上始终摆着装有短文《年轻》复印件的镜框，文中的许多的词句常被他在谈话或开会作报告时引用。后来此文传到日本，在日本成千上万的读者把它抄下来当作座右铭收藏，许多中老年人把它当作为安排后半生的精神支柱。文章的观点成为许多日本人生活哲学的基础，他们甚至将此文装在随身带的皮夹子里，有空就读一遍。著名的松下公司的创始人松下幸之助说：“多年来，《青春》始终是我的座右铭。” 日本人为这部散文诗所倾倒。而在美国伯明翰Birmingham, Alabama，人们对这位作者知之不多。后来才在日本人的资助下建立了Samuel Ullman博物馆。 ? 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, a vigor of the emotions; 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 sixty more than a boy of twenty. 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 spirit back to dust. Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human beings heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of whats 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 a