如果他没有表现出这种理想主义,她会感到失望,因为他还没有达到二十一岁。没有乐观的青年,没有强烈的可能性,将代表一种非常悲伤的状态。
(she would have been disappointed if he had not demonstrated such idealism, for he was yet to reach twenty-one; youth without optimism, without a strong sense of the possible, would represent a very sad state of affairs.)