看了yymimmo轉的Samuel Ullman 塞繆爾 厄爾曼的<
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﹔青春的標誌不是粉麵﹐朱唇﹐柔膝﹐而是意誌之本﹐想象之質﹐情感之力﹔是生命源泉的清新活力。青春意味著滿腔豪情﹐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 佈於靈魂。懮慮，惶恐，喪失自信，定使心靈扭曲，意氣如灰 。
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.
無論年屆古稀，抑或二八芳齡，每個人心中中皆存著奇跡的誘惑，對於將來久盛不衰的孩童般的好奇 ﹐以及活著本身遊戲般的歡樂。 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﹐悲觀自棄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﹔但是隻要你心中那架青春的“天線”一直立著﹐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﹕
青春不是年華，而是心境；青春不是桃麵，丹唇，柔膝，而是深沉的意誌，恢宏的想 象，熾熱的感情；青春是生命的源泉在不息的湧流。
青春氣貫長虹，勇銳蓋過怯懦，進取壓倒苟安。如此銳氣，弱冠後生有之，耳順之年 ，則亦多見，年歲有加，並非垂老；理想丟棄，方墮暮年。
歲月悠悠，衰微隻及肌膚，熱忱拋卻，頹唐必至靈魂。憂煩，惶恐，喪失自信，定使 心靈扭曲，意氣如灰。
無論年屆古稀，抑或二八芳齡，心中皆有生命之歡樂，奇跡之誘惑，孩童般天真久盛 不衰。人人心中皆深植一片追求，隻要你從天上，人間追求美好，希望，歡樂，勇氣 和力量，你就青春永駐，風華長存。
一旦追求消失，銳氣如同冰雪覆蓋，玩世不恭，自暴自棄油然而生，即使年方二十， 實已老矣。然堅持追求，你就有望在百歲高齡告別塵寰時仍覺年青
