People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'.

人们总是在谈论“青年问题”。

small at first, narrowly contained within its banks,

开始很小，被紧紧地夹在两岸中间，

This result merely confirms earlier American and British studies:

结果仅仅确认了美国人和英国人早期的研究：

as by falling into inaccessible caves, or into an ice crevasse, like the Siberian mammoths,

如掉进难以到达的洞穴，或掉进冰河裂缝里，或者像西伯利亚长毛象那样掉进冰窟中，

If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 'college'imaginable.

如果我们的教育制度仿效没有书籍的古代教育，我们的学院将具有可以想像得出的最民主的形式了。

but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.

可是，好像还有什么东西存在着，不把它捕捉到，作家是不会罢休的。