《IF》是英国作家吉卜林所写的诗歌，表达了诗人对未来的美好期盼。

IF

如果

By Joseph Rudyard Kipling

约瑟夫鲁德亚德·吉普林

If you can keep your head when all about you,

如果你能保持你的头脑清醒，当有关你的一切,

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

都迷失自我并且指责你的时候.

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

如果你能够信任自己，当所有人都在质疑你的时候,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

也谅解他们的质疑。

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting

如果你能够等待并且不因等待而疲倦，

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

或者，为人所骗，却并不而骗人，

Or being hated,don't give away to hating

或者被人憎恨，却并不将自己暴露给仇恨，

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

但看起来不要太得意,也不要夸夸其谈；

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

如果你能够梦想——并且不让梦想成为你的主人；

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

如果你能够思考——并且不让思考成为你的目标；

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster;

如果你能遇到胜利与灾难；

And treat those two impostors just the same;

并且同等的将他们当作骗子；

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

如果你能容忍你所说出的真相，

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

被无赖扭曲，成为为愚人搭建的陷阱，

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

或者看到那些你付出生命去热爱的事物变得支离破碎，

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

并且愿意弯下腰用破损的工具将他们重建；

If you can take one heap of all your winnings,

如果你可以堆积起你的所有，

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

并且将他们投注在一次机会上，

And lose,and start again at your beginnings

然后失去后,便在你最初的起点重新出发，

And never breathe a word about your loss;

并且不再对你的失败报以一言；

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

如果你能强迫你的感情、勇气和精力

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

在其他人消失了很久以后继续陪你前进，

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

那幺请坚持下去，当你一无所有的时候

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

只有希望对他们说:“坚持住!”

If you can talk with crows and keep your virtue,

如果你可以跟民众谈话并保持你的美德,

Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;

或者陪伴着国王行走，仍然能够平易近人；

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

如果没有仇敌,亦无亲爱的朋友可以伤害你;

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

如果所有的人都指望你,没有人过多的依靠;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

如果你能填满那些不可原谅的时光

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run ——

用每分钟内都价值六十秒的航程——

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

那幺整个世界和她所包含的事物都会是你的，

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

而更重要的是——你会成为一个真正的人，我的孩子!