英语名言警句 16
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.
——Rudyard Kipling, 'If'
中文解释
如果所有的人都怀疑你,
但你还能相信自己,并体谅别人的怀疑;
如果你懂得等待并且不因为等待而沮丧,
或者被别人欺骗也不去欺骗别人,
或者被别人怨恨也不去憎恨别人,
不要太过乐观,不要自以为是。
——鲁德亚德·吉普林,《如果》
单词解析
★ make allowance for 体谅,不追究
历史典故
《如果》是鲁德亚德·吉普林写给12岁的儿子的诗歌。这首诗受到英国人长期的喜爱与引用。其中的著名诗句“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.”(如果你能够坦然面对虚渺的成败荣辱。)更是被写在温布尔登举行决赛的主要球场——中央球场球员入口处的门沿上方;在费德勒与纳达尔对决前的宣传视频中也被引用朗读。