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 an 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!
Words and Expressions
keep one's head保持头脑清醒
make allowance for…留出余地;考虑到……
- impostor n.招摇撞骗者,冒名者
- knave n.流氓,无赖,恶棍
- worn-out adj.用坏的,穿破的,不能再用的
- pitch-and-toss n.一种向目的物投掷铜币的游戏
- sinew n.体力,气力;精力
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And try to translate it or them into Chinese:
如果
如果所有人都失去理智,咒骂你,
你仍能保持头脑清醒;
如果所有人都怀疑你,
你仍能相信自己,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,
既不装腔作势,也不夸夸其谈;
如果你是个追梦人——又不被梦主宰;
如果你是个爱思考的人——但不把思想当作目标;
如果你能坦然面对胜利和灾难
对虚渺的胜负荣辱胸怀旷荡;
如果你能忍受你曾讲过的事实
被无赖扭曲,用于蒙骗傻子,
或者,看着你用毕生去看护的东西被破坏,
俯下身去,用破旧的工具把它修补;
如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后,
然后孤注一掷再搏一次,
失败过后,东山再起,
并不抱怨你的失败;
如果你能迫使自己,
在别人走后,长久坚守阵地,
在你心中已空荡荡无一物,
只有意志告诉你“坚持!”;
如果与三教九流为伍而独善其身,
与王公贵族同行而不忘本色;
无论是敌是友都不能伤害到你;
如果所有人都信赖你而不过分依赖;
如果你能把每一分钟宝贵的时光
化作六十秒的奋斗
你就拥有整个世界,
更重要的是,孩子,你是个顶天立地的人。
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