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People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。
If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it,
not the young themselves.
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。
Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -
- people just like their elders.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
I find young people exciting.
我觉得年轻人令人振奋，
They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions
or love of comfort.
他们无拘无束。既不追逐卑鄙的名利，也不贪图生活的舒适。
They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.
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