美文朗读丨Roll the dice （中英）

主播，编辑：王昭 Jerry Wang

背景音乐（BGM）：There Shall be Showers of Blessing

作者：Charles Bukowski

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Roll the dice

-CharlesBukowski    

If you’re going to try, go all the way

如果你主意已定，不要回头

Otherwise, don’t even start

否则，就不要踏上征程

If you’re going to try, go all the way

如果你主意已定，不要回头

This could mean losing girlfriends

你可能会因此没了爱情

wives, relatives, jobs

输了家庭，众叛亲离，丢了工作

and maybe your mind

还会让你头脑发疯

Go all the way

但是不要回头

It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days

你可能会因此数日无一粒米果腹

It could mean freezing on a park bench

也可能会在公园长椅上瑟瑟发抖

It could mean jail

你可能会身陷囹圄

It could mean derision

或者沦为笑柄

It could mean mockery

遭人嘲弄

isolation

孤苦伶仃

Isolation is the gift

“孤苦伶仃”就是天赐之礼啊

All the others are a test of your endurance

所有别的一切都不过是耐力测试

of how much you really want to do it

考验出你究竟有几许雄心壮志

And you’ll do it

而你会一往直前

despite rejection and the worst odds

尽管阻碍重重，尽管前途不算光明

and it will be better than anything else you can imagine

这依然是你梦想中最美好的愿望

If you’re going to try

如果你主意已定

go all the way

不要回头

there is no other feeling like that

还会有哪种感受如此美妙

You will be along with the gods

你将会与诸神并肩

and the nights will flame with fire

而那夜晚，如火焰般燃烧

Do it, do it, do it

去做吧，去做吧，去做吧

all the way

不要回头

all the way

不要回头

you will ride life

你会驾驭着人生

it's the perfect laughter

一路前行驶向极致欢乐

it’s the only good fight there is

这是唯一值得征战的沙场