1943 Rudyard Kipling.If

对比Rudyard Kipling的原文，巴菲特修改的版本要好很多，参考：《2018-02-24 Warren Buffett's Letters to Berkshire Shareholders》。

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . .

“如果在众人惊慌失措之时，你能保持清醒的头脑 . . .

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting . . .

如果你能耐心等待，而不因等待而疲惫 . . .

If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim . . .

如果你能思考——而不把思考当作你的目标 . . .

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you . . .

如果在所有人都怀疑你时，你仍能坚信自己 . . .

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.”

那么这个世界以及其中的一切，都将属于你。”

原文：《1943 Rudyard Kipling.If》。

If you can keep your head when all about you

如果当你周围的人纷纷失去理智

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

并把责任推到你身上时你保持清醒的头脑；

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

如果在所有人都怀疑你时，你仍能坚信自己

But make allowance for their doubting too;

同时也体谅他们怀疑的理由；

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

如果你能耐心等待而不因等待而疲惫

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

遭人诽谤也不以谎言回敬

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

遭人憎恨也不让仇恨支配自己

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

并且既不显得过于完美，也不自作聪明夸夸其谈：

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

如果你能怀抱梦想却不做梦想的奴隶；

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

如果你能思考——而不把思考当作你的目标；

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

能同时面对“成功”与“灾祸”

And treat those two impostors just the same;

并把这两个伪装者一视同仁；

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

能忍受你说过的真理被小人扭曲

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

用来诱骗愚者

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

或目睹你毕生奉献之物被毁

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

仍能俯身用破旧的工具把它们重新建起：

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

如果你能把你赢得的一切堆作一堆

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

在一次掷币中孤注一掷

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

即便失去，仍能回到起点重新开始

And never breathe a word about your loss;

对自己的损失只字不提；

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

如果你能强迫你的心、神经与筋骨

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

在精疲力竭之后仍为你效力

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

当你体内已所剩无几你仍能咬牙坚持

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

只余一个对它们命令“坚持住！”的意志时。

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

如果你能与众人交谈而不失德

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

亦能与国王同行而不失平民本色；

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

既不为仇敌所伤，也不被挚友所伤

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

众人都重要，却没有任何一人重要到凌驾其上

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

如果你能把那不容宽贷的一分钟

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

填满为时六十秒的全速奔跑

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

那么这个世界以及其中的一切，都将属于你

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

更重要的是——你将成为真正的男子汉，我的孩子！

1943 Rudyard Kipling.If

1943 Rudyard Kipling.If

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