IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
如果在所有失去理智的人指責你的時候
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
你仍能保持頭腦情形;
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,
如果你能等待,并不在等待中疲倦
Or, being lied about,don't deal in lies,
容忍謊言,但不讓謊言左右你
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;
如果你要追夢,但不要被夢主宰;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
如果你愛思考,請不要光想會達不到目標;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
如果你能面對成功與失敗
And treat those two impostors just the same;
對待它們就像對兩個騙子一樣一視同仁;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
如果你能忍受自己所說的真相被騙子歪曲成制造陷阱的工具
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;
或是眼看自己畢生心血付諸東流時可以拿起殘破的工具重新來過
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
如果在你贏得無數桂冠之后
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;
不要抱怨你的失敗;
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 nothing 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;
如果仇敵與摯友都不能傷害到你
If all men count with you, but none too much;
如果所有人都依靠你,但沒有人依賴你
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
如果你花六十秒進行短程跑, 填滿那不可饒恕的一分鐘—
With sixty second' worth of distance run -
你就可以擁有一個世界,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
這個世界的一切都是你的,
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