単語

• p 1
  • supple 柔軟な
  • vigor 壮大な
• p 2
  • temperamental
  • predominance
  • timidity
  • appetite
• p 3
  • wrinkle
• p 4
  • lure
• p 5
  • aerial
  • cynicism
  • pessimism
  • optimism

拙訳（作成中）

若さとは生命のある時期を言うのではない。それは心の状態である。
薔薇のような頬、紅の口唇、柔軟な膝関節といった問題ではない。
それは、意思の問題であり、想像力の質の問題であり、
情動のおおきさの問題であり、・・・生命の深い泉のあたらしさである。

若さとは、
単なる欲求への小心に対する、勇気というものへの反射的な優位性であり、
安易なる愛に対するよりも冒険を求めるというそれである。
それは時として二十歳の肉体よりも還暦の人物の中にむしろ眠っている。
単に年数によって老いる者はない。
理想が乾ききることで人は老いるのである。

年月は肌にしわを作るかもしれないが、
驚異を諦めることは心にしわを作る。

原文

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 being's heart
the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like 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 men and from the infinite, so long are you 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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to
catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at
eighty.

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 being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like 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 men and from the infinite, so long are you 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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.