兰迪演讲.doc

2007 年9 月18 日，身患胰腺癌、生命还剩几个月的兰迪·波许(Randy Paush)教授在他的母校卡内基·梅隆大学做了一场风靡全美的讲座，题目是《真正实现你的童年梦想》，引起了旋风般的反应。演讲的视频片断在网上播出后，数以千计的人同他联系，表示他给他们的生活带来了深刻影响。《华尔街日报》把这次讲座称为“一生难觅的最后的讲座”。对于兰迪来讲，这真的是一场非同寻常的“人生最后一场演说”。  So I am reprising a talk that I gave in september at Carnegie Mellon University. It is an acdemic tradition called the last lecture. Hypothetically, if you knew you are going to die,you got one last lecture,what would you say to your students? 我在卡耐基梅隆大学九月份做了一次演讲，现在我在这里来再次作这个演讲。最后一个讲座在卡耐基梅隆大学是一个学术传统。假如说，如果你知道你即将离开这个世界，你可以做最后一次讲座，你会对你的学生讲些什么？（注：其实在美国的很多大学都有类似的 last lecture”系列讲座，比如说Stanford大学，Alabama大学，通常是让学校的著名教授来假设这是他们最后的讲演，那么什么对他们来说是最重要的，也就是说，在最后的时刻，把他们最希望分享给这个世界的人生智慧告诉所有的观众。） Well, for me, there is an elephant in the room. The elephant in the room that for me is not hypothetical. I have been fighting pancreatic cancer. It is now coming back after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. And the doctors are telling me there is nothing more to do and I have months to live. These are my most recent CT scans. The pancreatic cancer is spread to my liver and there are approximately a dozen tumors. I dont like this. I have three little kids. Lets be clear, this stinks. But I can not do anything about the fact that I am going to die. I am pursuing medical treatments, but I pretty much know how this movie is going to end. And I can not control the cards that are dealt, just how I play the hands. Now if I am not morose enough for you, I am sorry to disappoint. But I dont choose to be an object of pity and in fact, although I am going to die soon, I am actually physically very strong. In fact, I am probably physically stronger than most of the people in this audience.(doing push ups). 那么，对于我来说目前房间里有这样一头大象，并且这头大象不是虚拟的，它是真实存在的（房间里的大象这个英语成语是指有一件事大家不可能视而不见，但又不愿谈及,译者注)。我一直在和胰腺癌搏斗，而现在，在手术和化疗放疗之后，癌细胞又回来了。这些是我最近期的CT扫描图片。胰腺癌现在已经扩散到了我的肝部。目前我的肝脏里大约有十二个肿瘤。我不喜欢这个事实。我有三个年幼的孩子。毫不隐讳地说，目前的状况糟糕极了。但是对于我将不久于人世这件事实我无能为力。我积极地寻求各项医学治疗，但是我很清楚这部电影将如何结束。我无法控制将会被发到什么样的牌，但是我可以掌控手中牌的打法。现在，如果我看起来不够忧郁消沉，抱歉让你失望了。但