我想知道他在10年前或是20年前究竟是怎么样一个人呢，想知道如果没有当时的好运气，他会是什么样呢。

I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way.

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He also mentioned a poemby Rudyard Kipling called If. I didn't recognize what he was referring to immediately but I looked it up and it's a famous poem that you must have seen written in 1910 an inspirational poem.

他同时也提到了拉迪亚德？吉卜林的一首诗歌,名字叫做《如果》，我当时并没有迅速反应出,他到底指的是哪首诗，但是之后我查了一下发现,它是一首你肯定见过的著名的诗歌,写于1910年，一首启发性的诗。

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