朗讀亭（青春）歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂

在《朗讀者》節目系列中，設立了一個「朗讀亭」活動，遍及全國各地。

最後一期的「青春」主題，有一位朗讀者在朗讀亭中朗讀了美國作家塞繆爾·厄爾曼的散文"青春「。

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《青春 》 塞繆爾．厄爾曼

王佐良譯

青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想像，炙熱的情感；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯弱，進取壓倒苟安。如此銳氣，二十後生而有之，六旬男子則更多見。年歲有加，並非垂老；理想丟棄，方墮暮年。

歲月悠悠，衰微只及肌膚；熱忱拋卻，頹廢必致靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。

無論年屆花甲，擬或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇蹟之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天 線，只要你從天上人間接受美好、希望、歡樂、勇氣和力量的信號，你就青春永駐，風華常存。

一旦天線倒塌，銳氣便被冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭、自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十，實已垂垂老矣；然則只要樹起天線，捕捉樂觀信號，你就有望在八十高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年輕。

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頭條號：小一時空 編輯。圖片源自網路

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《青春》原文：

YOUTH

Samuel Ullman

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

60 more than a boy of 20.　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 60 or 16, 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 20, but as long as

your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die

young at 80.

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頭條號：小一時空 編輯。圖片源自網路

塞繆爾·厄爾曼(1840.4.13-1924.3.21)，美國作家。

參加過南北戰爭，之後定居伯明翰，經營五金雜貨，年逾70開始寫作。

他的散文《青春》因麥克阿瑟將軍的喜愛而出名，著作有散文《青春》等。

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（頭條號：小一時空 編輯。圖片源自網路）