If—
如果
Rudyard Kipling · 鲁德亚德·吉卜林
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 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 that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
如果周围的人都失去理智，怪罪于你，
而你仍能保持清醒；
如果所有人都怀疑你，你仍相信自己，
并宽容他们的怀疑；
如果你能等待而不厌倦等待，
被人中伤却不以谎言回敬，
被人憎恨却不以憎恨相报，
又不故作清高，不卖弄聪明：
如果你有梦想，而不被梦想支配；
如果你能思考，而不以思想为目的；
如果你能同时面对胜利与灾难，
把这两个骗子一视同仁；
如果你能忍受你讲过的真理
被恶人扭曲成愚人的陷阱，
或者眼看你用生命铸成的东西破碎，
还能俯身用破旧的工具重新搭建：
如果你能把所有赢来的筹码
押在孤注一掷的赌局上，
输光，然后从头再来，
对自己的损失只字不提；
如果你能让心、神经和筋骨
在早已耗尽之后仍为你效力，
当体内空无一物，只有意志
对它们说：撑住！
如果你能与人交谈而保持美德，
与君王同行而不失平民本色，
无论敌人还是挚友都不能伤害你，
人人都在你心里，却无人过分；
如果你能填满那不容宽恕的每一分钟，
用六十秒的奔跑去跑完，
你的就是大地和其中的万物，
而更重要的是——儿子，你将是一个真正的人！
吉卜林写给儿子的家训，被选为英国最受欢迎的诗。三十句如果，是写给每个普通人的成人礼。