If--by Rudyard Kipling

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						by Rudyard Kipling
						拉迪亚德.吉仆林 （英国第一位诺贝尔文学奖得主）

If you can keep your head when all about you			如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难		
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you ;			而你仍能保持冷静
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you		如果你对自己深信不疑，众人却对你心存猜忌
But make allowance for their doubting too ,			而你仍认为他们的猜忌情有可原

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting ,			如果你愿意等待并乐此不疲
Or , being lied about , don't deal in lies ,			遭人诽谤却不以牙还牙
Or , being hated , don't give way to hating ,			如果你遭人怨恨而不怀恨在心
And yet don't look too good , nor talk too wise ,		外表花哨，言谈不玄虚

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master ;		如果你拥有梦想，而不为梦想所左右
If you can think--and not make thought your aim ;		勤于思考，却不想入非非
If you can meet with triumph and disater ,			如果你遭遇成功和挫折
And treat those two impostors just the same ,			而对这些虚名一视同仁

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken			如果你能忍受自己推荐的真理
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ,			被恶徒歪曲成愚弄人的工具
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken		或者眼见毕生的事业毁于一旦
And stoop and build'em up with worn out tools			仍能俯身以残破的工具重建

If you can make one heap of all your winnings			如果你将获得的众多荣耀
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss ;			孤注一掷
And lose , and start again at your beginnings ,			在失败后从头再来
And never breathe a word about your loss			而决口不提自己的损失

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew ,		如果人们早已离你而去		
To serve your turn long after they are gone ,			你仍能坚守阵地，全心全意为你的目标不懈奋斗
And so hold on when there is nothing in you ,			如果你一无所有
Except the will which says to them "Hold on!"			唯存意志告诉自己要坚持

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue ,		如果你能与大众打成一片而不失节操
Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch ;		身居高位而平易近人
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you ;		如果敌友都无法对你造成伤害
If all men count with you -- but none too much ;		众人对你信赖有加却不过分依赖

If you can fill the unforgiving minute ,			如果你能惜时如金
With sixty seconds'worth of distance run ,			利用每一分不可追回的光阴
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it ,		你就可以拥有一个一切都属于你的世界
And--which is more--you'll be a Man , my son !			如此，你才算是一个大丈夫！！！