《IF》

北京進入了一年中最寒冷的時段，乾燥冷冽的空氣順著鼻腔進入喉嚨，稍微深吸一口便刺激的喉嚨收縮，有種想吐的感覺，最好的選擇就是哪裡也不要去，呆在有暖氣的家裡，看書學習，有輸入才能有輸出，周末給大家分享一首英國詩人拉迪亞德?吉普林（Rudyard?Kipling)的詩《如果》（IF）。

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, dont deal in lies,

Or, being hated, dont give way to hating,

And yet dont 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 youve 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 breath 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 thats in it,

And - which is more - youll be a Man my son!

如果在眾人六神無主之時，你鎮定自若而不是人云亦云；

如果被眾人猜忌懷疑時，你能自信如常，不去妄加辯論；

如果你有夢想又能不迷失自我；

如果你有神思又不至於走火入魔；

如果在成功之中能不忘形於色，而在災難之後也勇於咀嚼苦果；

如果看到自己追求的美好，破滅成一灘零碎的瓦礫，也不說放棄；

如果你辛苦勞作已是功成名就，為了新的目標你依然敢冒險一搏哪怕功名成烏有；

如果你跟村婦交談而不變謙恭之態，和王侯散步而不露諂媚之言；

如果他人的愛情左右不了你；

如果你與任何人為伍都能卓然獨立；

如果昏惑的騷擾動搖不了你的意志，你能等自己平心靜氣的在作答，那麼你的修養就會如天地般博大，而你就是一個真正的男子漢了。

中文有很多版翻譯，最喜歡的還是這版，詩的翻譯不是要按字的意思直接譯，更重要的還是要有詩的韻律和意境。

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