初中英語(yǔ)演講稿:青春是什么

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    First I want to ask you some questions:
    1、 Do you know what is youth?
    2、 How do you master your youth?
    Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life .
    青春
    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 60 more than a boy of 20 . Nobody grows old merely by a number of years . We grow old by deserting our ideals.
    Years 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 60 of 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’s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are 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.
    Thank you!
    注釋:
    1.supple.adj.(身體)柔軟的; 靈活的; 易彎曲的;
    例句:This mask leaves your complexion feeling soft and supple.
    這種面膜能使你的皮膚變得柔軟細(xì)嫩。
    2.timidity .n.膽怯,羞怯
    例句:They mocked at my timidity.
    他們嘲弄我的膽小.
    3.enthusiasm.n.熱情,熱忱;
    例句:She radiates an infectious enthusiasm for everything she does.
    她做任何事情都充滿一種極富感染力的熱情。
    4.appetite.n. 胃口,食欲; 嗜好,愛(ài)好
    例句:The public has an insatiable appetite for stories about the famous.
    公眾對(duì)名人有著難以滿足的好奇心。
    5.pessimism.n.悲觀; 悲觀情緒;
    例句:Optimism was gradually taking the place of pessimism.
    樂(lè)觀情緒逐漸取代了悲觀主義。