Start Where You Stand

就从你站立的地方开始

by Berton Braley

Start where you stand and never mind the past.

The past won't help you in beginning new,

If you have left it all behind at last.

Why, that's enough, you're done with it, you're through.

从你站立的地方开始，别再介意过去。

如果你终于要把过去抛诸脑后，

过去不会帮助你开始新的旅程。

为什么？过去的已经过去，经历过就已足够。

This is another chapter in the book.

This is another race that you have planned.

Don't give the vanished days a backward look.

Start where you stand.

这是书中的另一章，

是你计划的另一场比赛，

不要回头看逝去的日子，

就从你站立的地方开始。

The world won't care about your old defeats

If you can start anew and win success;

The future is your time, and time is fleet

And there is much of work and strain and stress;

如果你能重新开始并赢得成功,

这个世界不会在乎你过去的失败；

未来才是你的时间，时间过得很快

而你会还有很多工作、紧张和压力要去面对

Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,

Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,

The future is for him who does and dares,

Start where you stand.

忘记那些被埋藏的悲伤和绝望，

这是一个全新的试验，

未来属于那些敢于行动的人，

就从你站立的地方开始。

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,

Today is the thing, tomorrow soon will be;

Get in the fight and face it unafraid,

And leave the past to ancient history,

过去的失败不能使你停止，昔日的胜利为你助力，

今天很关键，而明天很快又要来到；

加入战斗，勇敢地面对它，

把过去留给古老的历史。

What has been, has been; yesterday is dead

And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;

Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,

Start where you stand.

发生过的事情已经发生，昨日已死

通过它你既没有祝福也没有被禁止;

勇敢点，兄弟，勇往直前，

就从你站立的地方开始。