【英语】《如果》

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拉迪亚德·吉卜林的作品《如果》将人生的种种境遇跃然纸上，借此告诫即将参军的儿子：做人最重要的是要有坚定的信心和持久的耐力。面临考验时，要百折不挠，顽强拼搏；与人交往时，要不卑不亢，以智者的胸襟包容一切；成功时戒骄戒躁，失败时绝不气馁，再接再厉；更要珍惜时光，坚持梦想，奋斗不息。
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If

By Rudyard Kipling

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 all 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!