Lesson 5 Youth-英语听力

[00:01.49]Lesson 5
第五课 [00:03.31]Youth
青年 [00:10.57]How does the writer like to treat young people?
作者喜欢如何对待年轻人 [00:16.76]People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
人们总是提及“年轻人的问题” [00:21.23]If there is one--which I take leave to doubt
如果真有这个问题，那我对此持怀疑态度 [00:24.73]--then it is older people who create it,not the young themselves.
这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的 [00:29.87]Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings
让我们来认真研究一下基本事实；年轻人毕竟也是人 [00:36.39]--people just like their elders.
就像年轻人的长辈一样 [00:38.96]There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:
老年人和年轻人唯一的不同点就是 [00:43.25]the young man has a glorious future before him
年轻人有灿烂的未来 [00:46.68]and the old one has a splendid future behind him:and maybe that is where the rub is.
而老年人只有辉煌的过去，这也许也是问题所在 [00:55.19]When I was a teenager,I felt that I was just young and uncertain--
当我还是少年时，我觉得自己很年轻，觉得一切都不定 [00:59.90]that I was a new boy in a huge school,
当时我是一名大学新生 [01:03.34]and I would have been very pleased to be regarded
如果我被当成一个有趣的问题来看待 [01:05.95]as something so interesting as a problem.
我会感到很得意 [01:09.48]For one thing,being a problem gives you a certain identity,
这是因为至少使我得到了某种承认 [01:14.15]and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
而这种认可又是年轻人所热衷追求的 [01:19.81]I find young people exciting.
我觉得年轻人很有活力 [01:22.83]They have an air of freedom,
他们有一种自由气息 [01:25.09]and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.
而且她们不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图安逸的生活 [01:30.70]They are not anxious social climbers,and they have no devotion to material things.
她们不热衷于社会地位，也不一味追去物质享受 [01:37.10]All this seems to me to link them with life,and the origins of things.
在我看来，所有这些优点将他们与生命以及万物起源联系在一起 [01:42.36]It's as if they were,in some sense,cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
从某种意义上说，他们是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成强烈且鲜明的对比 [01:52.40]All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.
当我遇见年轻人，我脑子里就会想到以上的那些 [01:56.15]He may be conceited,ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous,
年轻人可能狂妄自负、举止无礼、傲慢和无知 [02:02.55]but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--
但是我不会用尊重长者这一些陈词滥调来为自己辩护 [02:08.28]as if mere age were a reason for respect.
似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由 [02:12.00]I accept that we are equals,and I will argue with him,as an equal,if I think he is wrong.
我认为我们是平等的，如果我认为他们错了，我会以平等的身份来和他们理论