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——From New Concept English (Book 4, Lesson 29) 但是，即使这个世界不仅仅是个拙劣的玩笑，生命不仅仅是星体交织的寒光中的一点平庸的火花。人生也不仅仅是喧噪于神秘之乡的空虚的一笑；即使这一切发自那既不渴望也不可及的某种事物的启示，不是由于内在的失调而迸发的邪恶之念，也不是魔鬼用来嘲弄和激怒我们的奇谈怪论，一句话，徜若美具有某种意义,我们还是不要试图去了解释它的意义为好。 Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity , of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease ,This often exits in a man of 60more than a boy of 20.Nobody grows merely by a number of years, we grow old by deserting our idea . ——By Samuel Erman 青春意味着战胜懦弱的那股大丈夫气慨和摈弃安逸的那种冒险精神。往往一个60岁的老者比一个20岁的青年更多一点这种劲头。人老不仅仅是岁月流逝所致，更主要的是懒惰、不思进取的结果。 Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonders, the unfailing childlike appetite of what"s 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 the infinite, so long as you are young． ——By Samuel Erman | 
