《感动美国的“最后一课”.docVIP

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。但是，我选择不让自己成为被怜悯的对象。尽管我不久就将死去，事实上我的体力还非常的好。实际上，我可能比在座观众中的大多数人的体力还要好（randy开始伏在地上做俯卧撑）。 So todays talk is not about death, it is about life and how to live. Specifically about childhood dreams and about how you can try to achieve them---my childhood dreams, your childhood dreams. 那么今天的演讲不是关于死亡，而是关于生活和如何去生活