If you want a thing bad enough
To go out and fight for it,
Work day and night for it,
Give up your time and your peace and
your sleep for it
如果你对某种东西极度渴望
加倍努力为此奋斗,
没日没夜为此劳碌,
放弃娱乐,放弃安宁
放弃睡眠
If only desire of it
Makes you quite mad enough
Never to tire of it,
Makes you hold all other things tawdry
and cheap for it
仅仅对它的渴望
就让你足够疯狂
对它的永不厌倦
让其他一切都变得俗艳
和廉价
If life seems all empty and useless without it
And all that you scheme and you dream is about it,
如果没有它的生命对你而言只是空洞和无意义
你所有的计划都为它而设,所有的美梦都为它而做
If gladly you'll sweat for it,
Fret for it,
Plan for it,
Lose all your terror of God or man for it,
所有的汗水都为它而流
所有的烦恼都为它而生
所有的计划都为它而做
为了它,你不再对上天和人类心生畏惧
If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.
With all your capacity,
Strength and sagacity,
Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,
如果你为了追逐渴望的东西
用尽你的能力
体力和洞察力
信念、希望、信心和坚强的毅力,
If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,
Nor sickness nor pain
Of body or brain
Can turn you away from the thing that you want,
如果寒冷、贫穷、饥饿与憔悴都不能让你屈服
身体和心灵双重的疾病与疼痛都不能使你放弃
If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,
You'll get it!
如果你不屈不挠,勇往直前,
那么它定是你的囊中之物!