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如果 ——拉迪亚德·吉卜林 IF ——by Rudyard Kipling
如果，你能保持冷静，当身边的人都变得疯狂，纷纷指责于你 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, 如果，你能自信如常，当所有人都质疑你，而且，你还能体谅他们的质疑 If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you，But make allowance for their doubting too, 如果，你会等待，并不为等待所累 If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, 或者，为人所骗，却不因此就去欺骗 Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, 或者，为人所恨，却不因此就去怨恨 Or being hated, don't give way to hating, 你既不装腔作势，也不故做高明 And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: 如果，你会梦想，却不被梦想所主宰 If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, 如果，你善思考，却不为思考而思考 If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; 如果，你把成就和灾难一视同仁看作虚妄，宠辱不惊 If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; 如果，你能容忍你曾讲过的事实被恶棍扭曲用以蒙骗傻子 If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, 或者，看着毕生心血毁于一旦，你能默然不语俯身重建 Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: 如果，你辛苦劳作，已功成名就，为了新的更崇高的目标，你仍能放手一搏，哪怕功名化为乌有 If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, 并且，如果因此而失败，一切从头，你也对所有失去只字不提、毫不抱怨 And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; 如果，你已付出全部心力、精疲力竭、一无所有 If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, 但仍存信念坚如磐石，告诉自己：坚持 And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' 如果，你跟村夫交谈谦恭有礼 If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, 和王侯散步亦无谄媚之颜 Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, 如果，仇敌和密友都无法伤害你 If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; 如果，你在乎每个人，但不会缺了谁就不行 If all men count with you, but none too much, 如果，在想发泄愤怒的那一分钟，你能去进行六十秒的跑步 If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, 那么，世间万物都将属于你 Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, 而更重要的是，你将成为真正的男人，我的孩子 And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
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