<p class="ql-block">今天是五四青年节。时代在变，但五四精神却从未改变。我们要继续传承不畏艰险、不惜牺牲、不辞劳苦、不怕困难的顽强革命精神，做一个新时代的好青年。今天我们就一起来学习了解与“五四青年节”相关的英语知识。</p> <p class="ql-block">Youth Day （青年节）International Youth Day</p><p class="ql-block">(国际青年节)“五四青年节”为了纪念1919年以反对帝国主义（imperialism），弘扬民主（democracy）与科学 (science) 为目的的五四运动（May Fourth Movement）而设立的。中国共产党领导下的先进青年组织是中国共产主义青年团（China Communist Youth League），简称共青团。</p> <p class="ql-block">Patriotism 爱国 </p><p class="ql-block">Progress 进步</p><p class="ql-block">Democracy 民主</p><p class="ql-block">Science 科学</p> <p class="ql-block">The May Fourth Movement, which took place on May 4， 1919, was an anti-imperialist, anti-feudal, political and cultural movement. The movement was centered in Beijing, and soon spread to Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao and many other cities. 五四运动是1919年5月4日发生的一场反帝反封建的政治文化运动。这次运动以北京为中心，很快扩大到上海、天津、青岛等许多城市。It was a patriotic movement with broad participation by citizens, businessmen and workers, in which young students served as the main force. They took various activities, such as demonstration and strike, to protest the weak government and claim to recover the national sovereignty. 五四运动是以青年学生为主力，市民、商人和工人等广泛参与的一次爱国运动。他们通过示威游行、罢工等各种活动来抗议软弱的政府，要求恢复国家主权。The May Fourth Movement played a significant role in Chinese politics, culture, education as well as the development of the Communist Party of China. In order to commemorate this movement, the May 4 was officially announced as the Chinese Youth Day after the founding of People's Republic of China.五四运动对中国的政治、文化、教育，以及中国共产党的发展有着重要的作用。为了纪念这次运动中华人民共和国成立后正式宣布5月4日为中国青年节。</p> <p class="ql-block">If the youth are wise, the country will be wise.</p><p class="ql-block">If the youth prosper, the country will prosper.</p><p class="ql-block">If the youth are strong, the country will be strong.</p><p class="ql-block">If the youth are independent, the country will be independent.</p><p class="ql-block">If the youth progress, the country will progress.</p> <p class="ql-block">In the English corner，students are actively rehearsing Youth to salute Youth Day (May 4）. They are so wonderful，brilliant，adorable and extraordinary that I feel very proud of being their mentors.</p> <p class="ql-block">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.</p><p class="ql-block">青春不是芳华年少，而是一种心境；青春不是桃花红颜、盈盈朱唇、轻柔体态，而是积极的心志，丰富的想象，炙热的感情；青春是充满生机、清新盎然的生命源泉。</p><p class="ql-block">Youth means a temperamental 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.</p><p class="ql-block">青春是一种心性气势，是胆量战胜怯懦，是勇敢探索战胜苟且偷安。这样的锐气，与其说二十后生才具备，不如说在六旬老翁身上更多见。年轮的累加，并非意味着垂老；丢弃理想，才是真正意义的暮年。</p><p class="ql-block">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.</p><p class="ql-block">岁月会在额头上留下痕迹；而抛却热忱，则让灵魂长满皱纹。忧愁烦恼，恐惧焦虑，自疑畏缩，一定使心灵颓废，意气如灰。</p><p class="ql-block">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.</p><p class="ql-block">无论年届花甲，还是芳龄二八，人人心中都想往着奇妙事物，想知道明天会发生什么；都有一颗孩童般久盛不衰的好奇心。你我的心中都竖有一架天线，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。</p><p class="ql-block">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.</p><p class="ql-block">然而，天线一旦收起，玩世不恭、悲观厌世就会像冰雪一样，封盖你的锐气，即使年方二十，实际上也是垂垂老矣；但是，只要天线高置，还在捕捉乐观的信号，追求美妙的梦想，你就有望在八十高龄告别尘寰时，仍然年轻。</p> <p class="ql-block">优秀的作品能激励一代人，甚至是一个民族。美国作家塞缪尔·厄尔曼的《青春》"Youth"，就是这样一篇美文，也以此致敬五四青年节！</p>