A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

  • -- George Wald 乔治·沃尔德

演讲比你们许多人可能意识到的更像是对话。

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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

时间让我改变。我逐渐意识到这就是我,一个作家,一个公众人物,我不能只是躲在我的书房里,不停地敲击键盘,假装除了把单词串在一起我没有其他的角色。

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

当你做梦时,你与自己的某些方面对话,而这些方面通常不在白天与你在一起,你会发现自己知道的东西比你想象的多得多。

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

当我讲课时,我接受人们看表,但我不能容忍的是,当他们看表时,把表举到耳边,看表是否停了。

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

他把我从一个不会写剧本的单词变成了木讷对话之王。

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

实现明天理想的唯一障碍是今天的疑虑。