客服中心 | 代理专区 | 网站地图 | 公司简介
当前位置:亿城英语 -> 英语听力大全 -> 品牌 -> 新概念 -> 新概念英语第四册 -> Lesson 5 Youth



People are always talking about' the problem of youth '. If there is one--which
I take leave to doubt--then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all
human beings--people just like their elders. 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.
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. 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.
I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a
dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious
social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to
me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were in some
sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, illmannered,
presumptuous of fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary
clichés about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect. I
accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he
is wrong.

声明:
这里只提供从网络公开资源收集的低精度英语听力和英语口语语音试听,完全免费供广大英语爱好者试用。我们不保证文章内容一定是完整和正确的。您如需要完整和高精度的语音产品,请在相应的音像书店购买正版产品和教材。除标明的外,这里的语音内容的版权属于原版权所有人。如果试学感觉好,请支持正版!英语听力部分页面可能缺少文本或者语音,请反馈到客服信箱;文字内容仅供英语学习者参考,英语听力音频内容仅供低精度在线试听(不提供下载)。若您打开页面后看不到Realplayer播放框,有可能是没有安装Realplayer播放器,请点这里下载并安装。





北京数码轻舟科技发展有限公司版权所有 ICP京050055号 客服电话:(010)62535917
地址:北京市海淀区成府路35号北楼119室 邮编:100083 传真:(010)62535917
联系我们: 客服邮箱: