If you’re going to try, go all the way.

如果你主意已定，不要回头

otherwise, don’t even start.

否则，不要踏上征程

if you’re going to try, go all the way.

如果你主意已定，不要回头

this could mean losing girlfriends,

你可能会因此没了爱情

wives, relatives, jobs and

输了家庭，众叛亲离，丢了工作

maybe your mind.

还会让你头脑发疯

go all the way.

不要回头

it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.

你可能会因此数日无一粒米果腹

it could mean freezing on a park bench.

也可能会在公园长椅上瑟瑟发抖

it could mean jail,

你可能会身陷囹圄

it could mean derision,

或者沦为笑柄

mockery,

遭人嘲弄

isolation.

孤苦伶仃

isolation is the gift,

“孤苦伶仃”就是天赐之礼啊

all the others are a test of your endurance,

所有别的一切都不过是耐力测试，

Of how much you really want to do it.

考验出你究竟有几许雄心壮志

and you’ll do it

而你会一往直前

despite rejection and the worst odds

尽管阻碍重重，尽管前途不算光明

and it will be better than

这依然是你

anything else

梦想中最美好

you can imagine.

愿望

If you’re going to try,

如果你主意已定，

go all the way.

不要回头

there is no other feeling like that.

还会有哪种感受如此美妙

——Charles Bukowski