看了yymimmo轉的Samuel Ullman 塞缪尔 厄尔曼的<
意譯是必須的﹐但意譯的度如何把握﹐可能語言學家有很多探討。 我是寧願直譯的成份多些﹐想知道原文究竟怎麼寫的﹐對於詞藻的優美 不太在乎。
一點很不成熟的個人看法。
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.
青春不是年齡﹐而是心態﹔青春的標誌不是粉面﹐朱唇﹐柔膝﹐而是意志之本﹐想象之質﹐情感之力﹔是生命源泉的清新活力。青春意味着滿腔豪情﹐勇氣戰勝懦弱﹐敢於冒險﹐銳意進取而非貪圖安逸﹐得過且過。六十歲的老齡人常常青春煥發﹐二十歲的年輕人反而 頹廢早衰。
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.
沒有人僅僅因為歲月的增加而變老。我們老了﹐是因為我們拋棄了理想。歲月可以讓皮膚爬上皺紋﹐但喪失熱情卻使皺紋密 佈于靈魂。懮慮，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰 。
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.
无论年届古稀，抑或二八芳龄，每個人心中中皆存着奇迹的诱惑，對于將來久盛不衰的孩童般的好奇 ﹐以及活着本身游戲般的歡樂。 你我心中都有一臺無線接收器﹔它從他人與神明那裡接收美﹐﹐希望﹐歡樂﹐勇氣﹐和力量的時間有多久﹐你的青春就有多久。
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.
一當那接收天線倒下﹐玩世不恭的冷雪﹐悲觀自弃的寒冰覆蓋你的精神，那麼你即使不過二十歲也是真的老了﹔但是只要你心中那架青春的“天線”一直立着﹐主動攝取樂觀的電波 ﹐ 你就有望﹐即使古稀之年離開人世時也還是年輕人(那不過是一個八十多 歲的青年去了天堂 )。
附原譯﹕
青春不是年华，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 象，炽热的感情；青春是生命的源泉在不息的涌流。
青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯懦，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，弱冠后生有之，耳顺之年 ，则亦多见，年岁有加，并非垂老；理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤，热忱抛却，颓唐必至灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使 心灵扭曲，意气如灰。
无论年届古稀，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛 不衰。人人心中皆深植一片追求，只要你从天上，人间追求美好，希望，欢乐，勇气 和力量，你就青春永驻，风华长存。
一旦追求消失，锐气如同冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭，自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十， 实已老矣。然坚持追求，你就有望在百岁高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年青
