$课文5 青年

67. People are always talking about ’the problem of youth’.

人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。

68. 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。

69. 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。

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

老年人和青年人只有一个区别：

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

青年人有光辉灿烂的前景，而老年人的辉煌已成为过去。

72. and maybe that is where the rub is.

问题的症结恐怕就在这里。

73. When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain -- that I was a new boy in a huge school,

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，

74. and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem.

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。

75. 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.