譯 | 他的一生，改變了世界（三）

Life is brief, and then you die, you know?

人生短暫，轉瞬即逝！

—— 蘋果創始人 史蒂夫·喬布斯！

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史蒂夫·喬布斯05年在斯坦福大學的演講

前兩天給大家分享了：譯 | 他的一生，改變了世界(一)，和譯 | 他的一生，改變了世界(二)，想必大家對喬布斯的第一、二個故事有了比較清晰的了解，我們接著看第三個故事。

Think Different

• 第三個故事：關於死亡
  My third story is about death.

我的第三個故事是關於死亡的。

Source language:When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: 「If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you』ll most certainly be right.」 It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 「If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?」 And whenever the answer has been 「No」 for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

翻譯：我十七歲的時候，讀到過這麼一句話：「如若每天皆末日，終將覺得無錯時！」這句話對我而言，印象非常深刻。因此，那時起，我便每天對著鏡子對自己說：「如果今天就是生命中的最後一天的話，你會不會完成你今天的任務？」當你連續幾次都回答「不是」的時候，那麼就需要做出改變。

Source language:Remembering that I』ll be dead soon is the most important tool I』ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

翻譯：「記住你即將死去！」是我見到的最為重要的箴言！它使我認識到了生命的重要，因為，幾乎包括榮耀、驕傲、難堪、對失敗的恐懼的所有事情，都會在死亡面前消失。我能看到的，是留下生命中真正重要的東西。有時，你會思考，將會失去些東西，但當想到「你將逝去」的時候，便是最好的規避這些想法的最好方法。你已經赤身裸體，沒有理由不去跟著感覺走。

Source language:About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn』t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor』s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you』d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

翻譯：約一年前，我被診斷出患了癌症，早上七點半的時候，我做了一個檢查，得知我的了胰腺癌。當時，並不知道什麼是胰腺，我被醫生告知，那可能是無法治療的一種癌症，今生在這個世界上僅剩下六個月的存活時間。醫生讓我回家，整理一下，面對醫生準備好的死亡程序。也就是說，我需要用最短的時間，將未來十餘年的話，告訴孩子。做完所有的事情，儘可能讓家人輕鬆地生活，我要和他們說「再見」了。

Source language:I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I』m fine now.

翻譯：整天與那些診斷書在一起。後來一天早上，我做了一個活切檢查，醫生將將一個內窺鏡插入喉嚨並進入胃部，之後是腸子，用針在胰腺上取了幾個細胞，我因為被注射了鎮靜劑，所以並不慌張。但，後來妻子告訴我，醫生用顯微鏡檢查這些細胞的時候，她便開始尖叫，這些細胞便是用以治療胰腺癌的細胞，我做了手術，現在已經痊癒了。

Source language:This was the closest I』ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

翻譯：那是我最接近死亡的時刻，我也希望，那是以後的幾十年最接近的一次，我從死亡的邊緣活了過來，我可以非常肯定的對大家說：

Source language:No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don』t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life』s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

翻譯：沒人願意死，即便去天國，也不願意去哪裡消亡。但是，這是無可避免的共通點。無人可以倖免，也是如此。死亡—生命中的最好發明，除舊出新。現在大家都是新的，但從現在開始，我們便會逐漸被清除，很抱歉，這具有戲劇性，但是，事實如此。

Source language:Your time is limited, so don』t waste it living someone else』s life. Don』t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people』s thinking. Don』t let the noise of other』s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

翻譯：大家的時間有限，所以不必要浪費在重複的生活上。不要被教條所束縛，也就意味著，你和別人的思考結果一起存活。不要被他人嘈雜的觀點掩蓋你內心深處的聲音，最為重要的是，你要有勇氣去聆聽你的直覺和內心的指示---某種程度上你知道你會成為什麼模樣，因此，任何事，都不重要。

Source language:When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960』s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

翻譯：在我年輕的時候，看過一本雜誌叫：《全地球目錄》---我們那一代人的聖經之一。該書的作者—思迪沃特-布蘭德，就住在附近，如詩歌一般將這本書帶給這個世界。六十年代後期的時候，個人電腦出現前，這本書，全部是用打字機、剪刀、偏光鏡做的，有點像軟包的Google,在谷歌出現的三十五年前，是理想的，但不乏靈巧的工具和偉大的想法。

• 第四部分：求知若飢，虛心如虞

Source language:Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: 「Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.」 It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

翻譯：思迪沃特-布蘭德和他的合伙人出版了幾期《全地球目錄》，當它完成了自己的使命時，七十年代中期做了最後一期，封底是清晨鄉村公路的圖片（假設你有冒險精神，不妨尋找一下這條路），照片的下面有一段停刊的告別語：「求知若飢，虛心如虞！」我曾想，自己也可以這樣，現在，大家即將畢業，我也希望大家能這樣。

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

「求知若飢，虛心如虞！」

Thank you all very much.

感謝大家！

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