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youth——青春有关英语演讲youth--青春有关的英语演讲Ladies and Gentlemen , Good afternoon! Irsquo;m very glad to stand here and give you a short speech.today my topic is “youth” I hope you will like it , and found the importance in your youth so that more cherish it. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind ; it is not rosy cheeks , red lips and supple knees, it is a matter of the emotions : it is the freshness ; 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 e_ists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20 .Nobody grows old merely by a number of years .We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years wrinkle the skin , but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul .Worry , fear , self ndash;distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust . Whether 60 of 16 , there is in every human being “s heart the lure of wondersthe unfailing childlike appetite of what”s ne_t and the joy of the game of living .In the center of your heart and my heart therersquo;s a wireless station : so long as it receives messages of beauty , hope ,cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long as you are young . 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.第 页 共 页。