If
如果
If you can keep your head when all about you
如果所有人都失去理智,咒罵你,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
你仍能保持頭腦清醒;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
如果所有人都懷疑你,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
你仍能堅信自己,讓所有的懷疑動搖;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
如果你要等待,不要因此厭煩,
Or, being lied about,don't deal in lies,
為人所騙,不要因此騙人,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
為人所恨,不要因此抱恨,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
不要太樂觀,不要自以為是;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
如果你是個追夢人——不要被夢主宰;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
如果你是個愛思考的人——光想會達不到目標;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
如果你遇到驕傲和挫折
And treat those two impostors just the same;
把兩者當騙子看待;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
如果你能忍受,你曾講過的事實
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
被惡棍扭曲,用于蒙騙傻子;
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
看著你用畢生去看護的東西被破壞,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
然后俯身,用破爛的工具把它修補;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
如果在你贏得無數(shù)桂冠之后‘
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
突遇顛峰下跌之險,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
失敗過后,東山再起,
And never breathe a word about your loss;
不要抱怨你的失?。?/P>
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
如果你能迫使自己,
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
在別人走后,長久堅守陣地,
And so hold on when there is nothin in you
在你心中已空蕩蕩無一物’
Except the Will which says to them:"Hold on!";
只有意志告訴你“堅持!”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
如果你與人交談,能保持風度,
Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch;
伴王行走,能保持距離;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
如果仇敵和好友都不害你;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
如果所有人都指望你,卻無人全心全意;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
如果你花六十秒進行短程跑,
With sixty second' worth of distance run -
填滿那不可饒恕的一分鐘——
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
你就可以擁有一個世界,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
更重要的是,孩子,你是個頂天立地的人。