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迈克尔·杰克逊的墓志铭:如果

2010-07-03来源:和谐英语
If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

如果你敢把取得的一切胜利,为了更崇高的目标孤注一掷,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

面临失去,决心从头再来而绝口不提自己的损失;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

如果人们早已离你而去,你仍能坚守阵地奋力前驱,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them:"Hold on";

身上已一无所有,唯存意志在高喊“顶住”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

如果你跟平民交谈而不变谦虚之态,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

亦或与王侯散步而不露谄媚之颜;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

如果敌友都无法对你造成伤害;

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

如果众人对你信赖有加却不过分依赖;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

如果你能惜时如金利用每一分钟不可追回的光阴;

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

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,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

更重要的是:孩子,你成为了真正顶天立地之人!

(作者拉迪亚德.吉卜林:十九世纪末英国诗人,曾旅居印度,游历美国、南非、加拿大等国家,于1907年获得诺贝尔文学奖。他的诗仿佛在不经意中完成,却往往产生巨大反响。一位作家这样评价拉迪亚德.吉卜林:“不仅在文学上,乃至在世界上的所有英语国家中,他都被认为是最具影响力的人。”

《如果》是一首相当励志的诗,曾被译成27国语言作为学习的教材,许多人,特别是青少年常以此勉励自己,激发前进动力。)