if you want a thing bad enough

如果你对某种东西极度渴望

to go out and fight for it,

加倍努力为此奋斗

work day and night for it,

没日没夜为此劳碌

give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it

放弃娱乐、放弃睡眠、放弃舒适

if only desire of it makes you quite mad enough never to tire of it,

一切渴望皆系于此

makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for it

它的存在让其他一切变得俗艳和廉价

if life seems all empty and useless without it 

没有它，生命对你而言只剩苍白和空洞

and all that you scheme and you dream is about it,

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,

所有的汗水都为它而流

plan for it,

所有的烦恼都为它而生

fret for it, lose all your terror of god or man for it,

为了它,你不再对人类和上帝畏惧

if you'll simply go after that thing that you want.

如果你全身心为此一搏

with all your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,

用尽你的能力、智慧与才华

if neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,

如果寒冷、贫穷、饥饿与憔悴都不能使你屈服

nor sickness nor pain of body or brain can turn you away from the thing that you want,

疾病、疼痛、身体和心灵的双重折磨亦不能使你放弃

if dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,

你不屈不挠,勇往直前

you'll get it!

那么最后,它定是你的囊中之物

（伯顿·布莱利）