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March 9, 2009

                             

                                   IF

           Uk  吉卜林        translator :zhenghong

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:

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 imposters 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;

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!"

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!

译文部分: 假如当所有人都指责你时,你可以保持清醒的头脑, 当所有人对你心存疑虑时,你要有自信和持久的耐心,要百折不挠,顽强拼搏。 否定你时,可以为他人留有余地,选择等待而不是厌倦等待, 不要让仇恨冲昏了头脑,也不要孤芳自赏,从而夸夸其谈。 假如你是个追梦人——不要让梦想成为你的主宰, 假如你是一个爱幻想的人——不要让幻想来束缚住你的手脚。 假如你可以同时遇见骄傲和挫折,请以平常心来对待它们, 假如你能忍受,你曾讲过的事实被恶棍扭曲,用于蒙骗傻子。 看着你用毕生去看护的东西被破坏,然后俯身,用破烂的工具把它修补, 假如在你赢得无数桂冠之后‘ 突遇颠峰下跌之险, 失败过后,东山再起。’ 不要抱怨你的失败, 如果你能迫使自己, 在别人走后,长久坚守阵地, 在你心中已空荡荡无一物, 只有意志告诉你“坚持!”。 假如你与人交谈,能保持风度, 伴王行走,能保持距离, 假如仇敌和好友都不害你,所有人都指望你,却无人全心全意, 假如你花六十秒进行短程跑,填满那不可饶恕的一分钟?? 你就可以拥有一个世界, 这个世界的一切都是你的, 更重要的是,孩子,你是个顶天立地的人!Wink

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