《偶尔读诗》－如果

吉卜林的这首《如果》被英国民众选为最受欢迎的诗歌之一，父亲为了过12岁生日的儿子而写，短短一首诗，却包含了父亲对儿子的谆谆教诲和殷切期待，以及他对于人生的深刻理解。

IF 《如果》

By：Rudyard Kipling

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

如果在众人六神无主之时,

你镇定自若而不是人云亦云;

如果被众人猜忌怀疑时,

你能自信如常而不去枉加辩论;

如果你耐心等待，不轻言放弃，

即使被欺骗，也不以谎言回敬，

即使遭遇仇恨，也不被恨意沾染，

从不对人炫耀，也不自我标榜；

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

如果你有梦想,

又能不迷失自我;

如果你有神思,

又不至于走火入魔;

如果在成功之中能不忘形于色,

而在灾难之后也勇于咀嚼苦果;

如果你能忍受你坚信的真理

被人用做矇昧他人的工具，

抑或看到自己追求的美好破灭，

也会站在瓦砾中倔强重生不言放弃;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

如果你毕生的积蓄，

在孤注一掷的豪赌中，

荡然无存，你可以重新开始，

永远不提自己的损失；

如果你精疲力尽

但还能全力以赴，

或者当你力量衰竭

只有你的意志力在提醒自己要坚持；

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

如果你出入市井但能洁身自好,

和王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜;

如果他人的爱情左右不了你,

如果你与任何人为伍都能卓然独立;

如果你能把每一分宝贵的光阴，

化作六十秒的奋斗，

那么，你的修养就会如天地般博大，

而你，我的孩子，就成为了真正顶天立地之人！