青春是什么？正值青春年华和已过青春岁月的朋友们可能都思考过这个命题。 阅读这篇短文，觉得很好。不仅是作者的英文写作功底很好，更是文章中的哲学思考和作者的心胸、视野和性格令我叫好。如作者所言，青春不仅是人生的一个阶段，更是一种心境；青春是一种坚强的意志、创造潜力、勃勃的朝气；青春更是一种气质，勇敢而不畏惧怯懦，创造而不贪求安逸；不是岁月流逝让你老，而是放弃理想让你亡；只要我们心灵中有这么一座无线电台，不断接受希望、激励、勇气和力量的信息，我们都会永葆青春。 由“青春”一文想到三林中学。三林中学是一所百年老校。百年老校在发展中要永葆青春，我们就有责任架起这样一座“无线电台”，我们就有责任努力践行“勤敬诚肃”，成为有“仰高”精神的人，我们就有责任为三林中学发展不断注入新的文化内涵！ 阅读这篇英文短文后，希望师生对什么是“青春”有新的认识！ 校长室 2009-02-27 附《青春》： YOUTH Youth is not a time of life, it is the 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 bow the heart and turn the spirit back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, 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 men and from the infinite, you and I will remain 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 have a young heart at 80.
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