《如果 》
吉普林 （英）
如果你能在别人不知所措却对你横加指责的时候，保持清醒的头脑；
如果你能在所有人都怀疑你的时候仍然相信自己，
并能体谅别人对你的怀疑；
如果你能等待且又充满耐心，
或者，从不用谎言去应付谎言，也不用仇恨去回击仇恨，
既不故作正经，也不夸夸其谈。
如果你充满梦想但绝不做梦想的奴仆；
如果你勤于思考却不把思想当作目标；
如果你能在遇到胜利和困难时态度同样平静；
如果你能容忍你所说的真理，
被无赖用作捕捉愚人的陷阱，
或看着你所献身的事业轰然倒塌，
你能屈身拾起残破的工具把它们重建；
如果你能把所有赢来的筹码都押在一把赌注上，输光后仍能重新再来，
且对输赢只字不提。
如果你能在运气不佳身心俱疲之时，仍能全力以赴抓住机遇，
在一无所有只剩意志支撑的时刻，咬牙坚持到底。
如果你能与三教九流为伍而独善其身，与王公贵族同行而不忘本色；
如果无论是敌是友都不能伤害到你；
如果所有的人对你来说都同等重要；
如果你能把每一分宝贵的光阴化作六十秒的奋斗
那么你就拥有了整个世界，
更重要的是——你成为了一个真正的男子汉。
If——Rudyard Kipling
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 impostors 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!
诗人简介：
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
约瑟夫·鲁德亚德·吉卜林（Joseph Rudyard Kipling），英国小说家、诗人。1907年吉卜林凭借作品《基姆》获诺贝尔文学奖 ，当时年仅42岁，是至今为止最年轻的诺贝尔文学奖得主。获奖理由：“这位世界名作家的作品以观察入微、想象独特、气概雄浑、叙述卓越见长”。主要作品有诗集《营房谣》、《七海》，小说集《生命的阻力》和动物故事《丛林之书》等。
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