Either he is growing stronger, healthier, wiser, as the youth approaching manhood, or he is growing weaker, older, less incisive mentally, as the man approaching old age.

• 他要么如同青年接近成年，越变越强壮、健康、聪明； 要么如同成年接近老年，越变越虚弱、衰老、思想迟钝。