青春是人生中最宝贵的年华，也是懵懂少年们磨练成长的阶段。今天是五四青年节，世纪君来和大家聊聊让梦想绽放的青春，来来来，咱们先说说告别了稚嫩，走向成熟，英文都有哪些说法吧~ 

1. coming of age

这个短语表示“成年”、“成熟”。

例：Many students find that the university years mark a sort of coming of age.

很多同学都觉得大学时光是走向成熟的过程。

2. in your prime

Prime可以表示“全盛时期”，短语意为“鼎盛的年纪”，“成熟的年纪”。

例：Don't stress out about your future! You're just 21 and in your prime!

不要为未来担忧。你才21，正是风华正茂的年纪。

3. salad days

最佳的幸福时光；青春年少的时期

例：Looking back on those salad days always makes me smile.

回首那些青春年少的日子，我总是不禁会心微笑。

看过了上面这些表达，世纪君要来为你加点儿料↓↓↓奉上几段经典名言，希望你的青春不留遗憾。

Youth smiles for no reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

青春带来无缘无故的微笑，这是它最主要的魅力之一。

——英国作家Oscar Wilde

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

青春不问理由，只有行动。只有年老的人才会思索，并希望人人安分。

——法国画家Francis Picabia.

What youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.

青春眼中的水晶，在岁月看来只是露珠。

——英国诗人、剧作家Robert Browning

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

假如青春也是一种缺憾，那就是它逝去得太快。

——美国诗人、作家James Russell Lowell 

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

不要嘲笑一个年轻人的做作，他只是一次又一次的在找寻真正的自己。

——英国评论家Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals...

青春不是年华，而是心境；青春不是桃面、丹唇、柔膝，而是深沉的意志，恢宏的想象，炙热的恋情；青春是生命的深泉在涌流。青春气贯长虹，勇锐盖过怯弱，进取压倒苟安。如此锐气，二十后生而有之，六旬男子则更多见。年岁有加，并非垂老，理想丢弃，方堕暮年……

——美国诗人Samuel Ullman