{ "title": "Youth", "title_zh": "青年", "body": { "type": "narrative", "paragraphs": [ { "en": "People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.", "zh": "人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。" }, { "en": "If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.", "zh": "如果这个问题存在的话 -- 请允许我对此持怀疑态度 -- 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。" }, { "en": "Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -- people just like their elders.", "zh": "让我们来认真研究一些基本事实：承认青年人和他们的长辈一样也是人。" }, { "en": "There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.", "zh": "老年人和青年人只有一个区别：青年人有光辉灿烂的前景，而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。 问题的症结恐怕就在这里。" }, { "en": "When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain -- 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.", "zh": "我十几岁时，总感到自己年轻，有些事拿不准 -- 我是一所大学里的一名新生，如果我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样有趣，我会感到很得意的。" }, { "en": "For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.", "zh": "因为这至少使我得到了某种承认，这正是年轻人所热衷追求的。" }, { "en": "I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.", "zh": "我觉得年轻人令人振奋，无拘无束。他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。" }, { "en": "They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.", "zh": "他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受。" }, { "en": "All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things.", "zh": "在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源联系在了一起。" }, { "en": "It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.", "zh": "从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对照。" }, { "en": "All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichés about respect for elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect.", "zh": "每逢我遇到年轻人，脑子里就想到这些年轻人也许狂妄自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由。" }, { "en": "I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.", "zh": "我认为我和他们是平等的。如果我认为他们错了，我就以平等的身份和他们争个明白。" } ] }, "subtitles": [ { "timestamp": null, "en": "[ti:Youth]", "zh": "青年" }, { "timestamp": null, "en": "Lesson 5", "zh": "第五课" }, { "timestamp": "00:02.28", "en": "Youth", "zh": "青年" }, { "timestamp": "00:09.33", "en": "How does the writer like to treat young people?", "zh": "作者是如何对待年轻人的呢？" }, { "timestamp": "00:14.44", "en": "People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.", "zh": "人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。" }, { "timestamp": "00:20.18", "en": "If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt", "zh": "如果这个问题存在的话 -- 请允许我对此持怀疑态度" }, { "timestamp": "00:24.26", "en": "-- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.", "zh": "-- 那么，这个问题是由老年人而不是青年人造成的。" }, { "timestamp": "00:29.98", "en": "Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings", "zh": "让我们来认真研究一些基本事实：" }, { "timestamp": "00:36.74", "en": "-- people just like their elders.", "zh": "承认青年人和他们的长辈一样也是人。" }, { "timestamp": "00:39.60", "en": "There is only one difference between an old man and a young one:", "zh": "老年人和青年人只有一个区别：" }, { "timestamp": "00:45.00", "en": "the young man has a glorious future before him", "zh": "青年人有光辉灿烂的前景，" }, { "timestamp": "00:48.85", "en": "and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.", "zh": "而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。 问题的症结恐怕就在这里。" }, { "timestamp": "00:57.12", "en": "When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain", "zh": "我十几岁时，总感到自己年轻，有些事拿不准" }, { "timestamp": "01:03.42", "en": "-- that I was a new boy in a huge school,", "zh": "-- 我是一所大学里的一名新生，" }, { "timestamp": "01:06.66", "en": "and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.", "zh": "如果我当时真的被看成像一个问题那样有趣，我会感到很得意的。" }, { "timestamp": "01:13.57", "en": "For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity,", "zh": "因为这至少使我得到了某种承认，" }, { "timestamp": "01:18.92", "en": "and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.", "zh": "这正是年轻人所热衷追求的。" }, { "timestamp": "01:24.14", "en": "I find young people exciting.", "zh": "我觉得年轻人令人振奋，" }, { "timestamp": "01:27.09", "en": "They have an air of freedom,", "zh": "无拘无束。" }, { "timestamp": "01:29.42", "en": "and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.", "zh": "他们既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。" }, { "timestamp": "01:35.47", "en": "They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.", "zh": "他们不热衷于向上爬，也不一味追求物质享受。" }, { "timestamp": "01:42.97", "en": "All this seems to me to link them with life and the origins of things.", "zh": "在我看来，所有这些使他们与生命和万物之源联系在了一起。" }, { "timestamp": "01:49.63", "en": "It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.", "zh": "从某种意义上讲，他们似乎是宇宙人，同我们这些凡夫俗子形成了强烈而鲜明的对照。" }, { "timestamp": "01:59.57", "en": "All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.", "zh": "每逢我遇到年轻人，脑子里就想到这些年轻人也许狂妄自负，" }, { "timestamp": "02:04.36", "en": "He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders", "zh": "举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，" }, { "timestamp": "02:16.79", "en": "-- as if mere age were a reason for respect.", "zh": "似乎年长就是受人尊敬的理由。" }, { "timestamp": "02:21.38", "en": "I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.", "zh": "我认为我和他们是平等的。如果我认为他们错了，我就以平等的身份和他们争个明白。" } ], "book": 4, "lesson": 5 }