[英文演讲]青春成就梦想

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1 让青春飞扬

　萨特说过：“青春这玩意儿真是妙不可言，外部放射出红色的光辉，内部却什么也感觉不到。”
　　
　　一恍之间，有人称呼你为“小姐、先生”，而不再是“小丫头、小鬼”。父母开始用征询意见的目光与你交流，甚至有人爱用“青春”这样的字眼去形容你。
　　
　　真是奇妙的感觉。希冀着快快长大，穿上妈妈的高跟鞋，偷喝爸爸的白酒。但却又害怕成长，害怕面对成人世界的复杂与阴霾，害怕在成长路上无人同道的寂寞，更害怕一脸惊恐茫然的自己独自面对陌生的环境。
　　
　　但青春的孩子却总是开朗的，他们做着五彩斑斓的梦，他们小心翼翼地珍藏自己的喜怒哀乐。谁说年少轻狂不是一种幸福？谁说意气风发不是一种责任？谁说那些做过的羞涩青春之梦不是一份深沉的回忆？
　　
　　人们总说“梦一样的青春”，青春时代是一个短暂的美梦，当你再醒来时，它早已消失得无影无踪了。但那些流下的汗水，纯洁的友谊，炽热的梦想都保留了下来。飞扬的青春有飞扬的梦，我们的梦想可能幼稚了些，可能平凡了些，却是不加修饰，不沾染风尘，最真最美的。青春是春天一般的时代，是充满活力、充满热情的时代，是属于青年的“得天独厚”的时代，是拥有梦想，并为之努力的时代。
　　
　　可能很多人认为：梦想嘛，就是梦一梦，想一想，干嘛要当真，还尝试去实现它呢？这样想就片面了。没有人会感觉到青春正在消逝，但任何人都会感觉到，青春已经消逝。那些美丽的梦不能只是你幻想中的城堡，必须一砖一瓦地堆砌。梦想的确是需要去梦、去想，但别忘了，我们是青年啊，是激情洋溢、踌躇满志的青年啊，我们有旺盛的精力，有聪慧的头脑，既然梦想是有可能实现的，你甘心于只是梦和想吗？你希望别人都在做幸福的守望者，自己却一事无成吗？你希望别人的汗水耕耘出金黄的麦浪，自己一伸手，却打碎了一面镜子，镜子中是自己缥缈的青春梦吗？
　　
　　有句英国谚语：If you can dream it， you can do it。”只要敢梦想，就能实现。青年们，请记住：梦想没有伟大与平凡之分，只要是梦想，就能展翅高飞！
　　
　　每个人的心中都住着这样一个在灿烂的阳光下大笑的自己，青春飞扬的自己。年轻的我们总是梦想着前方还会有些什么？
　　
　　青年时代，是立大志的时候，路漫漫其修远兮，让我们背上前进的行囊，带上满满的自信与希望，出发吧！
　　
　　让梦想启航，让青春飞扬！

2 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 tempera-mental predominance of courage over timidity, of the
appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists 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 may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spring back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder,
the unfailing childlike 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.

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
青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想
象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。

青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年。
岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤；热忱抛却，颓废必致灵魂。忧烦，惶恐，丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

无论年届花甲，拟或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。人人心中皆有一台天线，只要你从天上人间接受美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的信号，你就青春永驻，风华常存。
一旦天线下降，锐气便被冰雪覆盖，玩世不恭、自暴自弃油然而生，即使年方二十，实已垂垂老矣；然则只要树起天线，捕捉乐观信号，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻

It seems that as the years go by, we hear about so many crimes committed by youths. One memorable crime that comes to mind is the shooting at Columbine High School that happened on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were associated with a group called the "trenchcoat" mafia. This group is made out of students that are an outcast from the school. When the shooting occurred, it was targeted to athletics. The athletics were popular and had great social influence at the school, which was one of the main reasons that the "trenchcoat" mafia hated. This is an example of youth gang and a horrific crime that they committed. 14 students and 1 teacher died from the shooting. It was clear that when Dylan and Eric planned for the shooting, they were going to kill all the athletics.

This is an important historical development, representing the extension of gang behavior and gang culture into new regions of the country and with new styles. While the gangs may have begun in imitation of such gangs as the Crips and Bloods, and may still wear typical gang clothing and paraphernalia, they are more of an organization of those youth who are prone to violence and delinquent behavior than they are instances of ethnic turf battles. Again, another movie might be helpful in thinking about these kinds of gangs. The movie Grease portrayed a certain class of young teen-agers who had clothing, culture, and behaviors in common. Yet, they were not seen as youth gangs, but as a faction or clique within the overall high school environment. In 1999, however, these greasers are more likely to be organized into youth gangs of the type identified in Puyallup. They have borrowed some of the behavior and culture from the urban gangs, become more organized, and engaged in more conflict between groups. They tend to harass and intimidate the other students.

The spaces and places that youth inhabit are essential aspects of their physical, cultural and historical identity. Youth culture is argued to be a system of social relations where articulation of contacts and influences are drawn from power relations, fashions and habits (Massey, 124). Thus, the relations that take place between youth and society have an impact on shaping not only their perceived space but youth's identity and culture as well. The cognitions that youth collect relative to important settings in their lives help shape what has been referred to as their place identity. Place identity evolves, "not merely in response to the physical properties of children's surroundings, but also as a product of social roles -their own and others- that help them understand who they are and how they are to behave" (Boocock, 36). This engagement with spaces, places, and people contributes to their competence in, and control over, their world and their culture. Doreen Massey argued that all relations that construct space are in one way or another always instilled with power. It is believed that sometimes adults possess a certain power over controlling youth and their perceptions of their respective environments. Although adults feel this control over place is playing an active role in the safety of youth in today's society, their control is in fact inhibiting the growth of youth today.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of pink cheeks, red lips and flexible knees; it is a matter of will, a quality of imagination, a vigor of the emotion; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a dispositional control of courage over coward, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists 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 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.
Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’ s heart the looking forward to wonder, the endless childlike 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 God, so long as you are young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of detest 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.