翻译版本一:
当周围的人都丧失理智并且归咎于你时,
你是否能够保持冷静?
当所有的人向你投来怀疑的目光时,
你是否能够相信自己却又允许他们怀疑?
你是否能够等待,不知疲倦地等待?
当你受人欺骗,不要以谎言作为交换。
当你遭人怨恨,不要将仇恨作为回应。
不要粉饰装扮,不要故作高明。
你是否能够梦想,却不会让梦想成为主宰?
你是否能够思考,却不会把思考视为目的?
无论是迎接凯旋的成功还是经历彻底的失败,
你是否都能荣辱不惊?
当你自己所说的真理被流氓们扭曲,成为愚人的陷阱时,
你是否能够忍受这些不实之词在耳畔萦绕?
当你为之奉献终身的事业遭受破坏时,
你是否能够俯身,用破旧的工具将其重新搭建起来?
你是否能够不计往昔的荣辱,放手一博?
即便遭遇失败苦痛,也要从头再来。
即便被人冷嘲热讽,也能毫不计较。
你是否能够直面人生的转折,全情投入?
即便身心疲惫,即便一无所有,
心中却还有一个信念在高喊:“坚持下去。”
当你与平民交谈时,是否依旧能够保持美德?
当你与国王同行时,是否依旧能够平易近人?
无论仇敌还是朋友,是否都无法对你造成悲伤创痛?
置身茫茫人海的你,是否能广结人缘却又留有分寸?
你是否能在无情的岁月中,
充分利用生命航程里的分秒时光?
如果一切真是这样,
你就拥有了世间万物,甚至更多……
这时,我的孩子!你就是一位真正的勇者。
翻译版本二:
如果周围的人毫无理性地向你发难,你仍能镇定自若保持冷静;
如果众人对你心存猜忌,你仍能自信如常并认为他们的猜忌情有可原;
如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁,
或遭人诽谤却不以牙还牙,
或遭人憎恨却不以恶报恶;
既不装腔作势,亦不气盛趾高;
如果你有梦想,而又不为梦主宰;
如果你有神思,而又不走火入魔;
如果你坦然面对胜利和灾难,对虚渺的胜负荣辱胸怀旷荡;
如果你能忍受有这样的无赖,歪曲你的口吐真言蒙骗笨汉,
或看着心血铸就的事业崩溃,仍能忍辱负重脚踏实地重新攀登;
如果你敢把取得的一切胜利,为了更崇高的目标孤注一掷,
面临失去,决心从头再来而绝口不提自己的损失;
如果人们早已离你而去,你仍能坚守阵地奋力前驱,
身上已一无所有,唯存意志在高喊“顶住”;
如果你跟平民交谈而不变谦虚之态,
亦或与王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜;
如果敌友都无法对你造成伤害;
如果众人对你信赖有加却不过分依赖;
如果你能惜时如金利用每一分钟不可追回的光阴;
那么,你的修为就会如天地般博大,并拥有了属于自己的世界,
更重要的是:孩子,你成为了真正顶天立地之人!
If------
By Joseph Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
I f 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 away 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;
I f you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters 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;
I f 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 crows 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!