Lesson 5 Youth

Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -- people just like their elders.

承認青年人和他們的長輩一樣也是人。

Lesson 5 Youth

There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:

老年人和年輕人之間僅僅有一個不同：

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the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him:

青年人有光輝燦爛的前景，而老年人的輝煌已成為過去。

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and maybe that is where the rub is.

問題的癥結恐怕就在這里。

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When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain --

我十幾歲時，總感到自己年輕，有些事拿不準 --

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that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.

我是一所大學里的一名新生，如果我當時真的被看成像一個問題那樣有趣，我會感到很得意的。

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For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity,

因為這至少使我得到了某種承認，

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and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

這正是年輕人所熱衷追求的。

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I find young people exciting.They have an air of freedom,

我覺得年輕人令人振奮，無拘無束。

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and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.

他們既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不貪圖生活的舒適。

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They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.

他們不熱衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物質享受。

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All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things.

在我看來，所有這些使他們與生命和萬物之源聯系在了一起。

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It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.

從某種意義上講，他們似乎是宇宙人，同我們這些凡夫俗子形成了強烈而鮮明的對照。

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All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.

每逢我遇到年輕人，腦子里就想到，

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He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous,

這些年輕人也許狂妄自負，舉止無理，傲慢放肆，愚昧無知，

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but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect of elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect.

但我不會用應當尊重長者這一套陳詞濫調來為我自己辨護，似乎年長就是受人尊敬的理由。

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I accept that we are equals,

我認為我和他們是平等的。

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and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

如果我認為他們錯了，我就以平等的身份和他們爭個明白。

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations,

當我聽人們說體育運動可創造國家之間的友誼，

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and that if only the common peoples of the would could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the hattlefield.

還說各國民眾若在足球場或板球場上交鋒，就不愿在戰場上殘殺的時候，我總是驚愕不已。

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce if from general principles.

一個人即使不能從具體的事例（例如1936年的奧林匹克運動會）了解到國際運動比賽會導致瘋狂的仇恨，也可以從常理中推斷出結論。

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive.

現在開展的體育運動幾乎都是競爭性的。

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.

參加比賽就是為了取勝。如果不拚命去贏，比賽就沒有什么意義了。

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On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise:

在鄉間的草坪上，當你隨意組成兩個隊，并且不涉及任何地方情緒時，那才可能是單純的為了娛樂和鍛煉而進行比賽。

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but as soon as a the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused.

可是一量涉及到榮譽問題，一旦你想到你和某一團體會因為你輸而丟臉時，那么最野蠻的爭斗天性便會激發起來。

Lesson 6 The sporting spirit

Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this.

即使是僅僅參加過學校足球賽的人也有種體會。

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At the international level, sport is frankly mimic warfare.

在國際比賽中，體育簡直是一場模擬戰爭。

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But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators:

但是，要緊的還不是運動員的行為，而是觀眾的態度，

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and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe --

以及觀眾身后各個國家的態度。面對著這些荒唐的比賽，參賽的各個國家會如癡如狂，甚至煞有介事地相信 --

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at any rate for short periods -- that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.

至少在短期內如此 -- 跑跑、跳跳、踢踢球是對一個民族品德素質的檢驗。