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Youth

People are always talking about ‘the problem of youth’. If there is one—which I take leave to doubt--then that 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 being—people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: a (the) young man has a glorious future before him and an (the) old one has a splendid future behind him, and maybe that is where the rub is.

When I was 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 reasons (things) the young are busily engaged in seeking.

I found young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to meant ambitions and love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they do not have (no) devotion to material things. All these seem (this seems) to me to link them with the life, and the origins of thing. It’s as if they were, in some sense, they are cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young man(person). He maybe conceited, ill-mannered, presumptions and (or) fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichés about respect of elder-as if mere age is (were) a reason for respect. I agree (accept) that we are equal, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

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The Sport spirit

I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn’t know from concert examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to the orgies of hatred. One could deduce it from the general principles.

Nearly all the sports practiced nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the green village (green), where you pick up the sides and if no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of persitage (prestige) rises, or as soon as you feel that you and a (some) large unit will be disgraced as (if) you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. In (At) the international level, the sports are (is) frankly mimic warfare. The most (But the) significant things is not the behavior of the players but the attitudes of the spectators, and behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and they seriously believe-at any rate of (for) short periods-running ,jumping, kicking the ball are tests of national virtual (virtue).

最后一句不怎么理解，所以背的也一塌糊涂。 Prestige and virtue，不会拼。。。