财富精英励志演讲10：我生命中的三个故事(10)

 　　I lived with that diagnosis¹ all day.

　　我整天和那个诊断书一起生活。

　　Later that evening I had a biopsy,

　　后来有一天晚上我作了一个活切片检查，

　　where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines²,

　　医生将一个内窥镜从我的喉咙伸进去,通过我的胃, 然后进入我的肠子,

　　put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor³.

　　用一根针在我的胰腺上的肿瘤上取了几个细胞。

　　I was sedated⁴, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying

　　我当时很镇静，因为我被注射了镇定剂，但是我的妻子在那里,，后来告诉我，当医生在显微镜地下观察这些细胞的时候他们开始尖叫,

　　because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

　　因为这些细胞最后竟然是一种非常罕见的可以用手术治愈的胰腺癌症。

　　I had the surgery and thankfully I'm fine now.

　　我做了这个手术, 现在我痊愈了。

　　This was the closest I've been to facing death,

　　那是我最接近死亡的时候,

　　and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades.

　　我还希望这也是以后的几十年最接近的一次。

　　Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely⁵ intellectual concept:

　　从死亡线上又活了过来, 死亡对我来说，只是一个有用但是纯粹是知识上的概念的时候，我可以更肯定一点地对你们说：

　　No one wants to die.

　　没有人愿意死。

　　Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.

　　即使人们想上天堂, 人们也不会为了去那里而死。

　　And yet death is the destination we all share.

　　但是死亡是我们每个人共同的终点。

　　No one has ever escaped it.

　　从来没有人能够逃脱它。

　　And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.

　　也应该如此， 因为死亡就是生命中最好的一个发明。

　　It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

　　它推进生命的变迁，旧的不去，新的不来，

　　Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

　　你们现在是新的, 但是从现在开始不久以后, 你们将会逐渐的变成旧的然后被清除。

　　Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

　　我很抱歉这很戏剧性, 但是这十分的真实。

　　Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

　　你们的时间很有限, 所以不要将他们浪费在重复其他人的生活上。

　　Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

　　不要被教条束缚,那意味着你和其他人思考的结果一起生活。

　　Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

　　不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。

　　And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

　　还有最重要的是, 你要有勇气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示——

　　They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

　　它们在某种程度上知道你想要成为什么样子。

　　Everything else is secondary.

　　所有其他的事情都是次要的。

1 diagnosis   

n.诊断，诊断结果，调查分析，判断

参考例句：

• His symptoms gave no obvious pointer to a possible diagnosis.他的症状无法作出明确的诊断。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做一次彻底的调查分析。

2 intestines   

n.肠( intestine的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Perhaps the most serious problems occur in the stomach and intestines. 最严重的问题或许出现在胃和肠里。 来自辞典例句
• The traps of carnivorous plants function a little like the stomachs and small intestines of animals. 食肉植物的捕蝇器起着动物的胃和小肠的作用。 来自辞典例句

3 tumor   

n.（肿）瘤，肿块(英)tumour

参考例句：

• He was died of a malignant tumor.他死于恶性肿瘤。
• The surgeons irradiated the tumor.外科医生用X射线照射那个肿瘤。

4 sedated   

v.使昏昏入睡，使镇静( sedate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She's sedated,but she's probably scared out of her mind. 她很安静，但是她可能已经吓疯了。 来自电影对白
• Are you telling me the porn actually sedated you? 你是要告诉我，那毛片的确让你镇静下来吗？ 来自电影对白

5 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。