英语句子分享：影响很多人一生的英文短文

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.

岁月悠悠，衰微只及肌肤;热忱抛却，颓唐必致灵魂。忧烦、惶恐、丧失自信，定使心灵扭曲，意气如灰。

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living.

无论年届花甲，抑或二八芳龄，心中皆有生命之欢乐，奇迹之诱惑，孩童般天真久盛不衰。

Inthe 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.

人的心灵应如浩淼瀚海，只有不断接纳美好、希望、欢乐、勇气和力量的百川，才能青春永驻、风华长存。

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 twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

一旦心海枯竭，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;然则只要虚怀若谷，让喜悦、达观、仁爱充盈其间，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时仍觉年轻。

词汇注释

supple /ˈsʌpl/ adj. 柔软的;逢迎的，顺从的

vigor /ˈvigə/ n. 精力，活力

temperamental /ˌtemprə'mentl/ adj. 由气质引起的;心情变化快的，喜怒无常的

predominance /priˈdɔminəns/ n. 优势

timidity /tiˈmiditi/ n. 胆怯

appetite /ˈæpitait/ n. 食欲，胃口;欲望，爱好

merely /ˈmiəli/ adv. 仅仅，只，不过

wrinkle /ˈriŋkl/ v. 使皱，使起皱纹

lure /luə/ n. 引诱，诱惑

infinite /ˈinfinit/ adj. 无穷的，无限的，无数的，极大的

aerial /ˈεəriəl/ n. 天线

cynicism /ˈsinisizəm/ n. 犬儒主义，玩世不恭

pessimism /ˈpesimizəm/ n. 悲观，悲观主义

optimism /ˈɔptimizəm/ n. 乐观，乐观主义