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If you can 1)keep your head when all about you <br />Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; <br />If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, <br />But 2)make allowance for their doubting too; <br />If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, <br />Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, <br />Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, <br />And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; <br /><br />If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; <br />If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; <br />If you can meet with triumph and disaster <br />And treat those two 3)impostors just the same; <br />If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken <br />Twisted by 4)knaves to make a trap for fools, <br />Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, <br />And stoop and build ’em up with 5)worn-out tools; <br /><br />If you can make one heap of all your winnings <br />And risk it on one turn of 6)pitch-and-toss, <br />And lose, and start again at your beginnings <br />And never breathe a word about your loss; <br />If you can force your heart and nerve and 7)sinew <br />To serve your turn long after they are gone, <br />And so hold on when there is nothing in you <br />Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on !”; <br /><br />If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, <br />Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch; <br />If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; <br />If all men count with you, but none too much; <br />If you can fill the unforgiving minute <br />With sixty seconds “worth of distance run”<br />Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, <br />And - which is more - you’ll be a Man my son!<br /><br />1、 keep one’s head 保持头脑清醒 <br />2、 make allowance for ……留出余地;考虑到……<br />3、 impostor[im5pCstE]n.招摇撞骗者,冒名者 <br />4、 knave [neiv]n.流氓,无赖,恶棍<br />5、 worn-out [w[:n5aut] a. 用坏的,穿破的,不能再用的 <br />6、 pitch-and-toss n. 一种向目的物投掷铜币的游戏<br />7、 sinew [5sinju:]n. 体力,气力;精力<br /><br />如果所有人都失去理智,咒骂你,<br />你仍能保持头脑清醒;<br />如果所有人都怀疑你,<br />你仍能坚信自己,让所有的怀疑动摇;<br />如果你要等待,不要因此厌烦,<br />为人所骗,不要因此骗人,<br />为人所恨,不要因此抱恨,<br />不要太乐观,不要自以为是;<br /><br />如果你是个追梦人--不要被梦主宰;<br />如果你是个爱思考的人--不要以思想者自居;<br />如果你遇到骄傲和挫折<br />把两者当骗子看待;<br />如果你能忍受你曾讲过的事实<br />被恶棍扭曲,用于蒙骗傻子,<br />或者,看着你用毕生去看护的东西被破坏,<br />俯下身去,用破旧的工具把它修补;<br /><br />如果在你赢得无数桂冠之后,<br />然后孤注一掷再博一次,<br />失败过后,东山再起,<br />不要抱怨你的失败;<br />如果你能迫使自己,<br />在别人走后,长久坚守阵地,<br />在你心中已空荡荡无一物,<br />只有意志告诉你“坚持!”;<br /><br />如果你与人交谈,能保持风度,<br />伴王同行,能保持距离;<br />如果仇敌和好友都不害你;<br />如果所有人都指望你,却无人全心全意;<br />如果你花六十秒进行短程跑,<br />填满那不可饶恕的一分钟--<br />你就可以拥有一个世界,<br />这个世界的一切都是你的,<br />更重要的是,孩子,你是个顶天立地的人。 <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> |
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