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Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams 如何让童年的梦想成真 Given at Carnegie Mellon University September 18, 2007It’s wonderful to be here. What Indira didn’t tell you is that this lecture series used to be called the Last Lecture. If you had one last lecture to give before you died, what would it be? I thought, damn, I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it.[laughter]能在这里真太棒了。英迪拉没告诉你们的是，这个系列讲座以前被称为“最后的讲演”。意思是如果你死前最后做一次演讲，你会讲什么？我想，得，这我可对上号了，但他们又改名了（旅程系列讲演）。 [笑声]So, you know, in case there’s anybody who wandered in and doesn’t know theback story, my dad always taught me that when there’s an elephant in the room,introduce them. If you look at my CAT scans, there are approximately 10 tumors inmy livers , and the doctors told me 3-6 months of good health left. That was a monthago, so you can do the math. I have some of the best doctors in the world.Microphone’s not working? Then I’ll just have to talk louder. [Adjusts mic] Is that good? All right.所以，如果有人只是随便进来而不知道背景故事的话，我父亲总是教导我说，当房间里有大象时，先介绍清楚（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）。如果你看看我的电脑断层扫描，我的肝脏大约有10 个肿瘤，医生告诉我还有3-6 个月的健康身体。这是一个月前，所以你可以算一算。我有一些世界上最好的医生。麦克风不响？那就得说话大声点。 [调整麦克风]好了吗？行。So that is what it is. We can’t change it, and we just have to decide how we’re going to respond to that. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how weplay the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you. [laughter] And I assure you I am not in denial. It’s not like I’m not aware of what’s going on. My family, my three kids, my wife, we just decamped.We bought a lovely house in Chesapeake, Virginia, near Norfolk, and we’re doingthat because that’s a better place for the family to be, down the road. And theother thing is I am in phenomenally good health right now. I mean it’s the greatestthing of cognitive dissonance you will ever see is the fact that I am in really goodshape. In fact, I am in better shape than most of you. [Randy gets on the gr