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2017-08-09拉迪亚德·吉卜林

时代英语·高一 2017年4期
关键词:体虚亚德冒险

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 impostors 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 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 thats in it,

And—which is more—youll be a Man, my son!

如果你能冷靜,而你周围的所有人

都已丧失理智,并把责任推卸给你,

如果所有人都怀疑你,而你能自信,

甚至对他们的怀疑,你也不存芥蒂;

如果你能等待,而不为此失去耐性,

或者面对谎言诬蔑,不以谎言反击,

或者被人忌恨,不让仇恨占据心灵,

不高谈阔论,也不表现得忘乎所以;

如果你有梦想,但又不被梦想支配;

如果你能思考,但又不以它为目的;

如果你能将胜利与灾难同等看待,

并把它们看成是两种虚妄的骗局;

如果你能忍耐,听着你所说的真理

被无赖们歪曲利用,再将傻子蒙骗,

或者眼看你毕生经营的事业毁弃,

你能俯身,用破旧的工具重新修建;

如果你能把奖品都堆成一座小塔,

孤注一掷,把它交给一次冒险行动,

即使失败,你也能再次从起点出发,

而绝口不谈你曾经遭受过的伤痛;

如果你能迫使你的心、神经和筋骨

在耗尽之后,甚至在你体虚力乏时

还能够坚持,依然为你的冒险服务,

只要“意志”还在对你的身体说“坚持!”

如果你与平民对话,能以真诚为怀,

或者跟国王同行,而又不失平常心;

如果敌人和朋友都无法伤害你,

如果众人对你信赖有加,却不过分依赖;

如果你肯花六十秒钟进行短程跑,

去填满生命中无情的每一分钟,

那么你就可以拥有整个世界及其万物,

更重要的是,你就是个真正的男子汉了,

我的孩子!

【作者简介】

拉迪亚德·吉卜林(Rudyard Kipling,1865—1936),英国小说家、诗人。

吉卜林一生共创作了八部诗集、四部长篇小说、二十一部短篇小说集和历史故事集,以及大量散文、随笔、游记等。他的作品简洁凝练,充满异国情调。马克·吐温曾盛赞吉卜林的作品,“我了解吉卜林的书……它们对于我从来不会变得苍白,它们保持着缤纷的色彩;它们永远是新鲜的。”吉卜林于1907年获得诺贝尔文学奖,成为英国第一位获此奖的作家。

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