英文欣赏 youth（English appreciation youth）.docVIP

英文欣赏 youth（English appreciation youth） Class 2011, second semester, second recitation Youth [1]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; will a, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. [2]Youth means a temperamental predominance (control) of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of than a boy 60 more of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. [3]Years, may, wrinkle, the, skin, but, to, give, enthusiasm, wrinkles, the, soul., Worry, fear, self-, distrust, bows, the, up, heart, and, turns,, the, spirit, dust., back, to [4]Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human beings heart the lure of looking forward to 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 is receiving messages of beauty, hope cheer, courage, and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.. [5]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. Comment on composition This article first uses a set of parallel, with four it is... The sentence pattern defines youth. The second paragraph compares 60 and 20 year olds, and concludes that youth is not simply age, it is the state of mind. Read here, readers might question: how then to keep your mind young? The author firmly grasp the psychology of the readers, in the fourth paragraph, with a wireless station as an example to describe the image of the way to keep young. The last paragraph will compare the, aerials, are, down, and aerials are up, and make a call: as long as we