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新概念英语4册第5课

Posted on 2004-09-01 10:42  Jason_Asm  阅读(659)  评论(0编辑  收藏  举报

Youth

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 one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before hime and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rob is.

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 proble. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the ghing are busily engaged in seeking.

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, illmannered, presumptuous of 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.



人们总是谈论年轻人的问题。如果真有的话-(我对此表示怀疑)-也是老人们制造出来的,而不是年轻人他们自己。让我们先认真考虑并达成一个共识:年轻人毕竟和他们的长辈一样,也是人类。老人和年轻人之间只有一点不同:年轻人有着光明的未来,而老人身后则有着辉煌的过去。也许这就是摩擦所在。


当我还是个孩子的时候,我觉得自己很年轻而且是无常的。我是一个大学校里的新学生,所以我很乐意被人当作一个问题来注意。首先, 这会给你带来确定的唯一感,而这正式许多年轻人所急于寻找的。


我发现年轻人很令人激动。他们有自由的旗帜,并且他们对平庸的责任、爱情和享受并没有那种沉闷承诺。他们并不急切地想进入上流社会,也不沉溺于物质世界。这一切都使我联想起生命,一切的起源。和我们这些偏狭的的人比起来,他们在某种意义上好象是宇宙中某种强烈而有可爱的生命。每当遇见一个年轻人时我都会想起这些。他也许会自以为是,态度恶劣,专横自满,但我并不因此就赞同尊敬长者的陈词滥调--如果仅仅年龄是尊敬的唯一原因。我认为我们是平等的,如果我认为长者错了,我也会和他平等地争论。