Youth

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 an 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 cliches 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. New words and expressions .

sb. take leave to do sth. 允许某人做某事，冒昧做某事

get down to sth.   认真研究  get down to +名词／动名词

glorious 光辉灿烂的

rub 难题

teenager 青少年

for one thing 原因之一，有一点是…   连接词… for another

identity  身份

air of freedom 无拘无束   air:神态、气势

dreary 沉郁的

ambition 追名逐利

cosmic being 宇宙人  human being 人

violent 强烈的，暴力的

suburban 见识不广的，有偏见的

conceited 自高自大的

presumptuous 自以为是的，放肆的

fatuous 愚蠢的

cliché 陈词滥调

I take leave to say…

我冒昧地说…

I take leave to be frank

恕我直言。口语：maybe I'm too bold…  or .  I'm bold enough… or.  Allow myself to

say …

Take one's leave = take leave 离开（正式用法）

Would you please take your leave?

我很烦的几种表示法：

What a bore. What a nuisance. What a trial What a jerk.

get down to + 名词/动名词

例：我开始学习了。 I get down to my studies.

I get down to learning my book.

to- 介词

同义词： be engaged in

glorious

glory n. 光荣

（rosy ,shining , brilliant , magnificent , gorgeous）

in one's glory: 在某人的鼎盛时期

in one's day

in one's golden days

in one's prime time

in the pride of one's life

rub 摩擦

at odds 有矛盾

have words with sb. 和…拌嘴

Do you get the rub?

Do you get the picture?

Do you catch me ?

Do you get me ?

What's the range?问年龄

Teenager 14到18

Under thirteen.Adolescent: 13到16

Juvenile 青少年

Youth 20到30

Air :神态（多用复数） He always puts on airs. 摆谱

Arrogant airs :  傲气 Bureaucratic airs : 官气

Finicky airs 娇气

Dreary 同: drearisome  a.无味，无聊

Sterile : 枯燥无味

Monotonous: 乏味无聊

Gloomy： 沉闷

Lifeless: 无生气的

 have ambition for going abroad/to gao abroad.

Fish …(wealth and fame)

Chase …(fame and gains)

Pursue …

Cosmic 宇宙

Cosmonaut 宇航员 = astronaut Astro-/aster 天体

Disaster Cosmic place :大都市 Metropolis: 大都市

Violent   nonviolence 非暴力

狂风：violent wind

暴死：violent death

vehement 猛烈的

同义词：turbulent

tumultuous

suburb 郊区

urbane: 有礼貌的 short-sighted 目光短浅的

narroe-minded/small-minded

insular 绝缘，目光短浅的 provincial

conceited 自高自大的

骄傲的 conceit(n.)

pride 自豪

big-headed 头发胀的 cocky 自负的

chicken 胆小鬼 sweller 膨胀的 over-confident

people are always talking about ' the problem of youth'.

Are talking _ 到目前为止一直讨论

'the problem of youth ' 加引号，引用。

-which I take leave to doubt 插入语 "我冒昧的说"，表示怀疑

-If there is any,同样表示怀疑

straight forward 开门见山

it is older people who creat it.—强调句

let us (speaker exclusive) – Let's (speaker inclusive)

get down to fundamentals

fundamental = basic 基本的

fundamentalist 信奉正统基督教的人

after all – 退一步

like – (介词) 省略了谓语 are

people are just lije their elders

glorious future 光辉的未来

splendid future光辉的未来（已过去的，对老年人而言）

where the rub is 症结所在，问题就出在这

hatred : 憎恨

ironical 讽刺的，用反语的 uncertain 后面省略用法

I would have been 虚拟语气

Something 重要的东西

You are somebody. 你是重要人物

So .. as … 后置定语

出色： outstanding

stand out 站出来，鹤立鸡群

cut figure 崭露头角

one of the things 正是其中之一

seeking = looking for exciting 令人激动的

air of freedom 无拘无束  = carefree , freedom from care

commitment 专注(to + 名词/动名词)

love = seek 追求 mean 意味着，小气卑鄙 = disgusting

anxious 虎视眈眈的

polish 擦，磨 apple polisher 溜须拍马 bootlicker 拍马屁者

no devotion to 热爱（贬） material things 物质享受 to me 在我看来（插入语）

life 生机

lifeless 没生机的，死气沉沉的

link with 把什么联系起来 origin 起源 original 原本的

as if 虚拟假设

in some sence 可以这么说吧（插入语 ）

in contrast with 与…比较

violent 强烈= strong

lovely 生动的，完美的

后置的同位语- suburban creatures

前面用得是 – cosmic beings

mediocre 平庸的

idol 偶像  idiot 傻瓜

conceited 自负

ill-mannered 粗暴

presumptuous 自以为是的

fatuous 愚蠢无比的

turn for protection to 寻求保护 turn to 求助

dreary  = boring cliché 沉郁的

cliché 陈词滥调，老生常谈