人们总是在谈论"青年问题"。
People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
如果真有这么个问题的话——我姑且对此表示怀疑——那么制造这个问题的是年长者，而不是年轻人自己。
If there is one — which I take leave to doubt — then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
让我们回归根本，并承认年轻人终究也是人——就像他们的长辈一样。
Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings — people just like their elders.
老人与年轻人之间只有一个区别：年轻人面前有一个辉煌的未来，而老人背后有一个灿烂的过去：也许，症结就在这里。
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.
当我还是个少年时，我觉得自己不过是年轻而迷茫——就像一个插班进入大学校的新生；而我会非常乐于被当成像"问题"这样有趣的东西来看待。
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.
首先，成为一个"问题"赋予你某种身份认同，而那正是年轻人正忙于寻求的东西之一。
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.
我觉得年轻人令人振奋。
I find young people exciting.
他们有一种自由的气息，也没有那种令人沉闷的、对渺小野心或安逸生活的执着。
They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.
他们不是焦虑的攀附者，也对物质没有执迷。
They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.
所有这些在我看来，将他们与生命本身以及万物的起源联系在了一起。
All this seems to me to link them with life and the origins of things.
仿佛他们在某种意义上是宇宙般的存在，与我们这些世俗的凡人形成强烈而美丽的对比。
It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
每当我遇到一个年轻人，这一切都在我心里。
All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.
他也许自负、无礼、放肆或愚蠢，但我不会为了寻求庇护而转向那些关于尊敬长辈的陈词滥调——仿佛仅凭年龄就该受到尊敬似的。
He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary clichés about respect for elders — as if mere age were a reason for respect.
我接受我们是平等的这一事实，如果我认为他错了，我会以平等者的身份与他争论。
I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.