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 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, thankfully, I'm fine now.
我那一整天一直在想這個(gè)診斷。到了晚上，我做了一次組織切片檢查，他們把一個(gè)內(nèi)窺鏡通過(guò)喉嚨經(jīng)由我的胃進(jìn)入了腸子，用針頭在胰腺的瘤子上取了一些細(xì)胞組織。當(dāng)時(shí)我服用了麻醉劑，陪在一旁的妻子后來(lái)告訴我，醫(yī)生在顯微鏡里看到了細(xì)胞之后叫了起來(lái)，原來(lái)這是一種少見(jiàn)的可以通過(guò)外科手術(shù)治愈的惡性腫瘤。我做了手術(shù)，謝天謝地，現(xiàn)在好了。
This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's 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: 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's 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's quite true.
這是我和死神離得很近的最后一次，我希望這也是今后幾十年里最近的一次。有了這次經(jīng)歷之后，現(xiàn)在我可以更加實(shí)在地和你們談?wù)撍劳觯皇羌兇饧埳险劚赫l(shuí)也不愿意死。就是那些想進(jìn)天堂的人也不愿意為了去那里而死。但是，死亡使我們共同的歸宿，沒(méi)人能擺脫。我們注定會(huì)死，因?yàn)樗劳龊芸赡苁巧詈玫囊豁?xiàng)發(fā)明。它推進(jìn)生命的變遷，舊的不去，新的不來(lái)。現(xiàn)在你們就是新的，但是在不久的將來(lái)，你們也會(huì)逐漸成為舊的，也會(huì)被淘汰。很抱歉，話說(shuō)得太過(guò)分了，不過(guò)這是千真萬(wàn)確的。
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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
你們的時(shí)間有限，所以不要將它們浪費(fèi)在重復(fù)其他人的生活上。不要抱有成見(jiàn)，那是在按照別人設(shè)想的結(jié)果而活。不要讓別人觀點(diǎn)的聒噪聲淹沒(méi)自己的心聲。最主要的是，要有跟著自己感覺(jué)走的勇氣。無(wú)論如何，感覺(jué)和直覺(jué)早就知道你到底想成為什么樣的人，其他都是次要的。
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