If you can keep your head when all about you,

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

如果在眾人六神無主之時

你能鎮定自若而不是人云亦云

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

如果在被眾人猜忌懷疑之日

你能自信如常而不去枉加辯論

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

如果你肯耐心等待不急不躁

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

或遭人欺騙卻不以牙還牙

Or being hated, don't give way to hating

或遭人憎恨卻不以惡報惡

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

既不裝腔作勢，亦不夸夸其談

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;

如果你有夢想，又能不迷失自我

If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim;

如果你有神思，又不致走火入魔

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster;

And treat those two impostors just the same;

如果在成功之中能不忘形于色

而在災難之后也勇于咀嚼苦果

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken,

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

如果能忍受你曾講過的事實

被惡棍扭曲，用于坑蒙拐騙

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

或者，看著你用生命去熱愛的事物被破壞

俯下身去，用破舊的工具將它修補

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

如果你已是功成名就

還是冒險一搏，哪怕功名烏有

即使慘遭失敗，也仍要從頭開始

And never breathe a word about your loss;

且絕不對你的失敗報以一言

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

如果你能迫使自己

在別人走后，長久堅守陣地

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the will, which says to them: "hold on!"

那就繼續堅持下去

即使唯存意志在高喊“頂住！”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

如果你與村夫交談而不離謙恭之態

和王侯散步而不露諂媚之顏

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

如果他人的愛憎左右不了你的正氣

如果你與任何人為伍都能卓然獨立

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run —

如果你能惜時如金

利用每一分鐘不可追回的光陰—

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

那么，你的修為就會如天地般博大，并擁有了屬于自己的世界，

And — which is more — you'll be a man, my son!

而更重要的是——孩子，你將成為一個真正頂天立地的人！

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