People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.
人们总是在谈论"青年问题"。
If there is one -- which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves.
如果有一个-我可以怀疑-那么创造它的是老年人，而不是年轻人自己。
Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings -- people just like their elders.
让我们谈一谈基本面，同意年轻人毕竟是人--就像他们的长辈一样。
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.
首先，作为一个问题给你一个特定的身份，这是年轻人忙于寻求的事情之一。
I find young people exciting.
我觉得年轻人很兴奋。
They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.
他们有一种自由的空气，他们没有一个沉闷的承诺，意味着野心或对舒适的热爱。
They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things.
他们不是焦虑的社会登山者，他们对物质事物也没有奉献精神。
All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things.
在我看来，这一切似乎将它们与生命和事物的起源联系起来。
It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures.
就好像他们在某种意义上是宇宙生物，与我们郊区的生物形成了暴力和可爱的对比。
All that is in my mind when I meet a young person.
所有这一切都在我的脑海中，当我遇到一个年轻人。
He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect.
