练习材料

Lesson 5-2 Youth

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 and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. 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. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

/ˈlɛsən/ 5-2 /juθ/ 

/aɪ/ /faɪnd/ /jʌŋ/ /ˈpipəl/ /ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ/. /ðeɪ/ /hæv/ /ən/ /ɛr/ /ʌv/ /ˈfridəm/, /ænd/ /ðeɪ/ /hæv/ /nɑt/ /ə/ /ˈdrɪri/ /kəˈmɪtmənt/ /tu/ /min/ /æmˈbɪʃənz/ /ɔr/ /lʌv/ /ʌv/ /ˈkʌmfərt/. /ðeɪ/ /ɑr/ /nɑt/ /ˈæŋkʃəs/ /ˈsoʊʃəl/ /ˈklaɪmərz/, /ænd/ /ðeɪ/ /hæv/ /noʊ/ /dɪˈvoʊʃən/ /tu/ /məˈtɪriəl/ /θɪŋz/. /ɔl/ /ðɪs/ /simz/ /tu/ /mi/ /tu/ /lɪŋk/ /ðɛm/ /wɪð/ /laɪf/, /ænd/ /ði/ /ˈɔrəʤɪnz/ /ʌv/ /θɪŋz/. /ɪts/ /æz/ /ɪf/ /ðeɪ/ /wɜr/, /ɪn/ /sʌm/ /sɛns/, /ˈkɑzmɪk/ /ˈbiɪŋz/ /ɪn/ /ˈvaɪələnt/ /ænd/ /ˈlʌvli/ /ˈkɑntræst/ /wɪð/ /ʌs/ /səˈbɜrbən/ /ˈkriʧərz/. /ɔl/ /ðæt/ /ɪz/ /ɪn/ /maɪ/ /maɪnd/ /wɛn/ /aɪ/ /mit/ /ə/ /jʌŋ/ /ˈpɜrsən/. /hi/ /meɪ/ /bi/ /kənˈsitəd/, /ɪl/-/ˈmænərd/, /prɪˈzʌmpʧəwəs/ /ɔr/ /ˈfæʧəwəs/, /bʌt/ /aɪ/ /du/ /nɑt/ /tɜrn/ /fɔr/ /prəˈtɛkʃən/ /tu/ /ˈdrɪri/ cliché/ɛs/ /əˈbaʊt/ /rɪˈspɛkt/ /fɔr/ /ˈɛldərz/ -- /æz/ /ɪf/ /mɪr/ /eɪʤ/ /wɜr/ /ə/ /ˈrizən/ /fɔr/ /rɪˈspɛkt/. /aɪ/ /ækˈsɛpt/ /ðæt/ /wi/ /ɑr/ /ˈikwəlz/, /ænd/ /aɪ/ /wɪl/ /ˈɑrgju/ /wɪð/ /hɪm/, /æz/ /ən/ /ˈikwəl/, /ɪf/ /aɪ/ /θɪŋk/ /hi/ /ɪz/ /rɔŋ/.