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1、风靡全美的最后一次演讲风靡全美的最后一次演讲这是处于癌症晚期的美国卡耐基-梅隆大学教授Randy Pausch的最后一次演讲，言谈间依然活力四射，充满幽默、乐观和生活哲理。他演讲的视频在网上被广泛传播，影响了无数的美国人。一位美国华人朋友近日给我发来了这段视频的链接，我看后受益匪浅，随后从网上找来这次演讲的中英文对照版本，与各位网友分享。 Randy Pauschs Last Lecture:Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams如何让童年的梦想成真Given at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySeptember 18, 2007I

2、ts wonderful to be here. What Indira didnt tell you is that this lecture series used tobe called the Last Lecture. If you had one last lecture to give before you died, whatwould 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

3、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 theres anybody who wandered in and doesnt know theback story, my dad always taught me that when theres an elephant in the room,introduce them. If you look at my CAT scans, there are approximately 10 tumors inmy liver, and the do

4、ctors 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.Microphones not working? Then Ill just have to talk louder. Adjusts mic Is thatgood? 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

5、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 cant change it, and we just have to decide how weregoing to respond to that. We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how weplay the hand. If I do

6、nt seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry todisappoint you. laughter And I assure you I am not in denial. Its not like Im notaware of whats going on. My family, my three kids, my wife, we just decamped.We bought a lovely house in Chesapeake, Virginia, near Norfolk, and were doingthat beca

7、use thats 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 its 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

8、 on the groundand starts doing pushups Applause So anybody who wants to cry or pity me candown and do a few of those, and then you may pity me. laughter情况就是这样。我们无法改变它，我们只需要决定如何回应。我们不能改变我们手里的牌，但能调整如何出牌。如果我看起来不够忧郁郁闷，抱歉让你们失望了。 笑 我向你们保证，我不是否认现实。不是我不知道正在发生的事。我的家人，我的三个孩子，我的太太，我们刚刚撤营。我们在切萨皮克，弗吉尼亚州诺福克附近，买了一

9、个可爱的房子。我们这么做是为我们家的未来打算，那里较好。另一件事是我现在身体惊人的健康。我的意思是这将是你所见到的最大的认知失调，我的体力非常好。事实上，我比你们大部分人的体力都好。兰迪趴下开始做俯卧撑 掌声 所以有人想要哭或可怜我，可以下来先做几个这个，然后你们可以可怜我。 笑声All right, so what were not talking about today, we are not talking about cancer,because I spent a lot of time talking about that and Im really not interested.

10、 If youhave any herbal supplements or remedies, please stay away from me. laughterAnd were not going to talk about things that are even more important thanachieving your childhood dreams. Were not going to talk about my wife, were nottalking about my kids. Because Im good, but Im not good enough to

11、talk aboutthat without tearing up. So, were just going to take that off the table. Thats muchmore important. And were not going to talk about spirituality and religion, althoughI will tell you that I have achieved a deathbed conversion. I just bought aMacintosh. laughter and clapping Now I knew Id g

12、et 9% of the audience withthat, but. All right, so what is todays talk about then? Its about my childhooddreams and how I have achieved them. Ive been very fortunate that way. How Ibelieve Ive been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessonslearned. Im a professor, there should

13、be some lessons learned and how you canuse the stuff you here today to achieve your dreams or enable the dreams of others.And as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others thing is evenmore fun.好，那么今天我们不谈什么呢，我们不谈癌症，因为我已花了很多时间谈它，我真的没兴趣了。如果您有任何辅助草药或疗法，请别过来。 笑声我们也不会谈比实现童年梦想更重要的事。我们不

14、谈我的妻子，我们不谈我的孩子。因为我心情不错，但我没好到谈起他们而不落泪。所以，这是更重要我们只好不提。我们不谈精神与宗教，但我要告诉你们，我已做了一个临终转变。我刚刚买了台苹果电脑。 笑声及掌声 我知道我这样做可得到9的听众的支持。但今天到底谈什么呢？谈我童年的梦想和我如何实现他们。我在这方面一直很幸运。谈为什么我相信我能够助人梦想成真，也讲一些经验教训。我是一个教授，应该有一些经验教训，以及如何你可以用你今天听到的东西去实现你的梦想，或者助人实现梦想。当你年长些，你可能会发现，助人梦想成真会更有乐趣。So what were my childhood dreams? Well, you k

15、now, I had a really goodchildhood. I mean, no kidding around. I was going back through the familyarchives, and what was really amazing was, I couldnt find any pictures of me as akid where I wasnt smiling. And that was just a very gratifying thing. There was ourdog, right? Aww, thank you. And there I

16、 actually have a picture of me dreaming.And did a lot of that. You know, theres a lot of wake ups! I was born in 1960.When you are 8 or 9 years old and you look at the TV set, men are landing on themoon. Anythings possible, and thats something we should not lose sight of, is thatthe inspiration and

17、the permission to dream is huge.那么什么是我童年的梦想？你知道，我有一个非常好的童年。我的意思是，不开玩笑，我回去看家里的文档，令人惊奇的是竟找不到任何一张我小时候不笑的照片。这可是一件非常可喜的事。这是我们家的狗，对不对？ 噢，谢谢。这有一张我做梦的照片。我做了很多的梦。当然，也有很多梦醒时分！我出生在1960 年。在8、9 岁时，电视上正播放人类登月。任何事情都可能发生，我们不要忽略灵感和允许梦想的巨大力量。So what were my childhood dreams? You may not agree with this list, but I wa

18、sthere. laughter Being in zero gravity, playing in the National Football League,authoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia I guess you can tell the nerdsearly. laughter Being Captain Kirk, anybody here have that childhood dream?Not at CMU, no. I wanted to become one of the guys who won the

19、big stuffedanimals in the amusement park, and I wanted to be an Imagineer with Disney.These are not sorted in any particular order, although I think they do get harder,except for maybe the first one.那么，我的童年梦想？你可能不同意这个列表，但那曾是我的梦想。 笑 体验零重力，参加全美橄榄球联盟，给世界图书百科全书出一篇文章-我猜你可以看出我很早就是书呆子了。笑当柯克船长，在这里有谁有这个童年梦想吗

20、？不会在卡耐基-梅隆大学，没有。我想我能成为一个在游乐园赢得大毛绒玩具动物的人，我也想成为一个迪士尼幻想工程师。这个单子并不按任何特定顺序排练，但我觉得他们越来越困难，可能除了第一项以外。OK, so being in zero gravity. Now its important to have specific dreams. I did notdream of being an astronaut, because when I was a little kid, I wore glasses andthey told me oh, astronauts cant have glasse

21、s. And I was like, mmm, I didnt reallywant the whole astronaut gig, I just wanted the floating. So, and as a childlaughter, prototype 0.0. slide shown of Randy as a child lying in floating-formationon a table top好，体验零重力。有具体的梦想很重要。我没有梦想成为一个航天员，因为我从小就戴眼镜。他们告诉我，哦，宇航员不能戴眼镜。我想，嗯，我并不真的当宇航员，我只是想自由飘浮。因此，作为一

22、个孩子笑 ，原型0.0 。幻灯片显示小兰迪躺在台面上作漂浮状But that didnt work so well, and it turns out that NASA has something called theVomit Comet that they used to train the astronauts. And this thing does parabolicarcs, and at the top of each arc you get about 25 seconds where youre ballisticand you get about, a rough equ

23、ivalent of weightlessness for about 25 seconds. Andthere is a program where college students can submit proposals and if they win thecompetition, they get to fly. And I thought that was really cool, and we had a teamand we put a team together and they won and they got to fly. And I was allexcited be

24、cause I was going to go with them.但那并不怎么管用。我们知道美国航天局有一种用来训练宇航员的飞机叫做“呕吐彗星”。它以抛弧线飞行，在每个弧顶后有大约25 秒的时间是如弹道俯冲，大致相当于失重25 秒。航天局有一个项目让大学生可以比赛提出研究建议，如果他们赢了，他们就能上去飞。我觉得那很酷，我们有一个团队，我们把它组织好我。他们 赢了竞赛，获准去飞。我好兴奋，因为我要跟他们一起去。And then I hit the first brick wall, because they made it very clear that under nocircumstan

25、ces were faculty members allowed to fly with the teams. I know, I washeartbroken. I was like, I worked so hard! And so I read the literature very carefullyand it turns out that NASA, its part of their outreach and publicity program, and itturns out that the students were allowed to bring a local med

26、ia journalist from theirhome town. laughter And, Randy Pausch, web journalist. Its really easy to get apress pass! laughter然后，我碰上了第一道砖墙，因为航天局明文规定教员不能跟学生团队一起飞。我可是伤心透顶。我想，我投入了那么多心血！所以，我仔细读了文件，原来航天局有一个推广宣传项目，允许学生从他们家乡带一名当地媒体的记者。 笑 ，兰迪.波许，网站记者。得到新闻通行证可真容易！ 笑So I called up the guys at NASA and I said, I

27、need to know where to fax somedocuments. And they said, what documents are you going to fax us? And I said myresignation as the faculty advisor and my application as the journalist. And he said,thats a little transparent, dont you think? And I said, yeah, but our project is virtualreality, and were

28、going to bring down a whole bunch of VR headsets and all thestudents from all the teams are going to experience it and all those other realjournalists are going to get to film it.于是我就打电话给美国宇航局说，我需要知道传真文件的号码。那边问，你要传真什么文件？我说我要辞去学校顾问头衔，申请做记者。他说，你不觉得这有点太露骨了吗？我说，没错，但我们的项目是虚拟现实，我们将带去一大堆虚拟现实头盔，所有队伍的学生都将试用这

29、个，这样一来，那些随其他队去的真记者就会把它拍下来。Jim Foleys going oh you bastard, yes. And the guy said, heres the fax number. So,and indeed, we kept our end of the bargain, and thats one of the themes thatyoull hear later on in the talk, is have something to bring to the table, right, becausethat will make you more welco

30、me. And if youre curious about what zero gravitylooks like, hopefully the sound will be working here. slide shows videotape fromRandys zero gravity experience There I am. laughter You do pay the piper at thebottom. laugher So, childhood dream number one, check.吉姆.佛勒在说，你这个混球。接电话的人说，这是传真号码。而事实上我们也实践了我

31、们的诺言，这是你们等会儿会在讲座中听到的主题之一，就是手上要有货， 这样你你就会更受欢迎。如果你好奇零重力是什么样子，希望声响没有问题。 幻灯片，录影带，兰迪的零重力体验 这是我。 笑 你最后还是要在底部承担后果。 众笑 ，所以，童年的一号梦想，画钩。OK, lets talk about football. My dream was to play in the National Football League.And most of you dont know that I actually no. laughter No, I did not make it tothe National Football League, but I probably got more from that dream and notaccomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.好吧，让我们谈谈橄榄球。我的梦想是要参加全国橄榄球联盟。你们大部分人不知道我实际上，不 笑没有，我没能参加向全美橄榄球联盟。但我从这未实现的梦想中得到的恐怕比我任一实现的梦想中得到的还要多。I had a