【今日美文朗讀】諾貝爾文學獎得主: 讓你的修養如天地般博大

07-15

拉迪亞德·吉卜林是十九世紀末英國詩人，於1907年獲得諾貝爾文學獎。這首《如果》是拉迪亞德·吉卜林寫給即將奔赴一戰戰場兒子的勵志詩，據說邁克爾·傑克遜的媽媽把它刻在兒子的墓碑上。許多人，特別是青少年常以此勉勵自己。

如果—ReadbyFlora 來自BBC英語聽力 05:10

　　By 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 masterIf you can think

and not make thoughts your aim

If you can meet with triumph and disasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same

If you can bear to hear the truth you"ve spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools　　Or watch the things you gave your life to brokenAnd stoop and build"em up

with worn out tools

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch and tossAnd lose and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are goneAnd so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them " Hold on "

If you can talk with crowds

and keep your virtueOr walk with kings

nor lose the common touch

If neither foes

nor loving friends can hurt youIf all men count with you

but none too much

If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds" worth of distance run

Yours is the earth and everything that"s in itandwhich is more

you"ll be a Man,my son

諾貝爾獎得主吉卜林寫給12歲兒子的詩

如果

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

你能自信如常而不去枉加辯論

如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁或遭人誹謗卻不以牙還牙或遭人憎恨卻不以惡報惡既不裝腔作勢

亦不趾高氣昂

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

破滅為一攤零碎的瓦礫

也不說放棄

如果你辛苦勞作

已是功成名就

為了新目標

你依舊冒險一搏

哪怕功名成烏有

如果你跟村夫交談而不變謙恭之態

和王侯散步而不露諂媚之顏

如果他人的愛左右不了你

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再做答時

那麼，你的修養就會如天地般博大

而你，就是個真正的男子漢了

我的兒子

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