新概念英语 4
Lesson 5高级

Youth

青年

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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.

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人们总是在谈论「青年问题」。如果有这样一个问题的话——对此我不揣冒昧表示怀疑——那也是老年人制造的,而不是青年人自己。让我们来认真探讨一下基本事实,承认青年人和他们的长辈一样也是人。老人和年轻人之间只有一个区别:年轻人面前有着辉煌的前途,而老年人背后有着辉煌的过去。