假如(英音)

If

by Rudyard Kipling

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If you can keep your head when all about you

即使众人都失去理智并且归咎于你;

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

假如你能保持冷静,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

假如你能保持自信,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

即使众人都怀疑你, 让所有的怀疑动摇;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

假如你能等待而不因此厌烦,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

别人骗你, 不要因此骗人,

Or being hated don't give way to hating,

别人憎恨你, 也不去憎恨别人,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

不要太乐观, 不要自以为是;

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;

假如你能寻梦 -- 而不为梦想主宰;

If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim,

假如你能思考 -- 而不以思索为目标;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

假如你能面对成败祸福

And treat those two impostors just the same.

而同样视之如骗徒.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

如你听到你的老实话被小人歪曲

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

去蒙骗愚蠢之辈而尚能心平气和,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

或者见到你毕生的亊业被毀,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

而尚能执起破旧的工具去着手重建;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后,

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

然后孤注一掷再搏一次,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

失败过后, 东山再起,

And never breathe a word about your loss;

不要抱怨你的失败;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

假如你能驱使你的心力和精神,

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

在别人走后, 长久地坚守阵地,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

让你抓牢, 尽管你里面己掏空了,

Except the Will which says to them: Hold on!

只有意志告诉它们“坚持! ”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

假如你能与市井之徒交谈而不失于礼,

Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,

出入于贵胄之家而不忘苍生黎民,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

假如你能尊重人人而不膜拜何人,

If all men count with you, but none too much,

既不受制于仇敌亦不受制于亲朋;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

假如你能以六十秒长跑

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

去填满不可饶恕的一分钟,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

这个世界的一切都是你的,

And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

更重要的是 -- 孩子 -- 你是个顶天立地的人!