名校勵志英語演講 第45期:我人生中的三個故事
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening Ihad a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope downmy throat, through my stomach into my intestines, puta needle into my pancreas and got a few cells fromthe tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there,told me that when they viewed the cells under amicroscope the doctors started crying because itturned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancerthat is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and,thankfully, I'm fine now.
我那一整天一直在想這個診斷。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個內窺鏡通過喉嚨經(jīng)由我的胃進入了腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細胞組織。當時我服用了麻醉劑，陪在一旁的妻子后來告訴我，醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看到了細胞之后叫了起來，原來這是一種少見的可以通過外科手術治愈的惡性腫瘤。我做了手術，謝天謝地，現(xiàn)在好了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few moredecades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than whendeath was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die.Even people who want togo to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No onehas ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single bestinvention of Life. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right nowthe new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and becleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.
這是我和死神離得很近的最后一次，我希望這也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實在地和你們談論死亡，而不是純粹紙上談兵：誰也不愿意死。就是那些想進天堂的人也不愿意為了去那里而死。但是，死亡使我們共同的歸宿，沒人能擺脫。我們注定會死，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的一項發(fā)明。它推進生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來?，F(xiàn)在你們就是新的，但是在不久的將來，你們也會逐漸成為舊的，也會被淘汰。很抱歉，話說得太過分了，不過這是千真萬確的。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—whichis living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown outyour own inner voice.
你們的時間有限，所以不要將它們浪費在重復其他人的生活上。不要抱有成見，那是在按照別人設想的結果而活。不要讓別人觀點的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺走的勇氣。無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。
我那一整天一直在想這個診斷。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個內窺鏡通過喉嚨經(jīng)由我的胃進入了腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細胞組織。當時我服用了麻醉劑，陪在一旁的妻子后來告訴我，醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看到了細胞之后叫了起來，原來這是一種少見的可以通過外科手術治愈的惡性腫瘤。我做了手術，謝天謝地，現(xiàn)在好了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few moredecades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than whendeath was a useful but purely intellectual concept: No one wants to die.Even people who want togo to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No onehas ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single bestinvention of Life. It's Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right nowthe new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and becleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true.
這是我和死神離得很近的最后一次，我希望這也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實在地和你們談論死亡，而不是純粹紙上談兵：誰也不愿意死。就是那些想進天堂的人也不愿意為了去那里而死。但是，死亡使我們共同的歸宿，沒人能擺脫。我們注定會死，因為死亡很可能是生命最好的一項發(fā)明。它推進生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來?，F(xiàn)在你們就是新的，但是在不久的將來，你們也會逐漸成為舊的，也會被淘汰。很抱歉，話說得太過分了，不過這是千真萬確的。
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—whichis living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown outyour own inner voice.
你們的時間有限，所以不要將它們浪費在重復其他人的生活上。不要抱有成見，那是在按照別人設想的結果而活。不要讓別人觀點的聒噪聲淹沒自己的心聲。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺走的勇氣。無論如何，感覺和直覺早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。
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