╱ IF ╱ —— Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you 如果周圍的人毫無理性地向你發難 Are losing theirs and blaming it on you 你仍能鎮定自若 保持冷靜 If you can trust yourself when all man doubt you 如果眾人對你心存猜忌 你仍能自信自如 But make allowance for their doubting too 瓦解所有的懷疑 If you can wait and not be tired by waiting 如果你肯耐心等待 不急不躁 Or being lied about, don't deal in lies 如果你遭人誹謗 不要以牙還牙 Or being hated,don't give away to hating 如果你遭人憎恨 不要以惡報惡 And yet 與此同時 Don't look too good,nor talk too wise 既不裝腔作勢 亦不氣盛趾高 If you can dream 如果你是個追夢人 And not make dreams your master 也不要被夢主宰 If you can think 如果你是個愛思考的人 And not make thoughts your aim 不要以思想者自居 If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster 如果你面對成功和失敗 And treat those two imposters just the same 都一視同仁 If you can bear to hear the truth you're spoken 如果你可以忍受別人歪曲你說的真實之言 Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools 去蒙騙烏合之眾而尚能心平氣和 Or watch the things you gave your life to broken 或者 看著你用畢生守護的東西被破壞 And stoop 俯下身去 And build 'em up with worn-out tools 再用破舊的工具把它修補回來 If you can take one heap of all your winnings 如果你敢把取得的一切勝利 And risk it on one turn of pitch—and toss 為了更崇高的目標孤注一擲 And lose 面臨失去 And start again at your beginnings 決心從頭再來 And never breathe a word about your loss 而絕口不提自己的損失 If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew 如果你在自己已經筋疲力竭的時候 To serve your turn long after they are gone 依然強迫自己做好自己的本分 And so hold on when there is nothing in you 在最低潮的時候 Except the will which says to them:'hold on!' 意志力會告訴你:堅持住! If you can talk with crows and keep your virtue 如果你能與凡人交談而不失于禮 Or walk with kings nor lose the common touch 出入于富貴之家而不奴顏婢膝 If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you 如果仇敵和密友都無法傷害你 If all men count with you 如果你在乎每個人 But none too much 但不會缺了誰都不行 If you can fill the unforgiving minute 假如你能把每一分鐘寶貴的光陰 With sixty seconds' worth of distance run —— 都化作六十秒的奮斗 Yours is the Earth 那么你的修為 就會如天地般博大 And everything that's in it 世界上的一切都屬于你 And 還有 which is more —— 更重要的是 you'll be a man, my son! 我的孩子 你終將成為一個頂天立地的人! |
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