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I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!
VOA: special.2010.07.18
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What kind of life would you lead?
那会是怎么一样生活？
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If you didn't come to New York, maybe you'd live in Puerto Rico. What would your life be like?
如果你没有来纽约，或许你会住在波多黎各。那么，你生活会怎么样？
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Now, ask yourself then, would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?
现在问问你们自己，你们愿意,一辈子连接在体验机器上吗？
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If someone comes to your home and says, I would like to sell you life insurance.
如果有个人敲开你家的门并对你说,我是来向您出售人寿保险的
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Joe, so if you had to spend the rest of your life on a farm in Kansas with only Shakespeare or the collected episodes of The Simpsons, you would prefer Shakespeare?
乔，所以如果你只能在堪萨斯农场里,带着莎士比亚的作品,或《辛普森一家》全集，共度你的余生，你会选择莎士比亚？
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And I say something about Citizen Kane but go beyond it, so I thought this would be a good time in your life for you to see it or see it again.
我不仅要说《公民凯恩》,还要说别的，我认为这会是你们人生中的美好时光,你们去看这个电影或者再一次看。
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I would hope that how you lead your life ten years from now, twenty years from now, thirty years from now, would have been significantly influenced by this particular experience in this course.
我憧憬着,十年,二十年,三十年后,你们会怎样经营自己的生活,你们的生活方式,会怎样被这门课深深影响
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But you understand what I mean because you've had a remarkable life that no one would signed up for.
但您应该理解我的意思吧,您的一生如此非凡,是普通人不能承受的。
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If you're a bacterium your whole life is about swimming to nutrients and running away from things that would kill you.
假如你是一个细菌,你的一生将会在追逐养分,和逃避敌害中度过
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So, Haldane was once asked, "Would you lay down your life for your brother?"
霍尔丹曾经被问到，你愿意为了你的兄弟放弃生命吗“
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But even if you do survive-- let's the ground floor-- even if you do survive, you would lead a life of constant frustration-- refusing to accept something that is there whether you like it or not.
即使你幸存下来-,比如你在一楼-,就算你真得幸存下来，你的生活将是处处受挫-,拒绝接受现实事物,不论你喜欢与否。
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Death is bad insofar as it deprives you of a chunk of life that would have been good.
死亡是坏的，因为它剥夺了,你的本可以美好的生命。
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So again, when the question is posed, ?" "Is there a kind of life that I or you would want to live forever?"
所以当问题提出时，“是否存在我或你们想永远过的生活“
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They would tell these women, you know, if you buy life insurance on your husband, then should anything happen your husband can love and protect you from beyond the grave.
他们会告诉这些女人,如果你为你的丈夫购买了寿险,那么万一有意外发生,你丈夫的在天之灵仍会保佑你渡过难关
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So if $200,000, Julie, is too low a figure because it doesn't include the loss of a loved one and the loss of those years of life, what would be what do you think would be a more accurate number?
朱莉，要是20万美金不够,因为没有算丧失亲人,和生命的损失，那你认为什么数目更合适？
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- And it's worth--; it's sort of a useful test for asking yourself -- what are the things you must value in life-- to ask, what would you choose to do if you knew you had five years, ten years, ? what have you?
而这值得;,这算是一种很有用的测试,用来问自己什么是你在生命中必须珍惜的事-,问你会怎么选择,如果你知道自己还有5年，10年，之类的时间？
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Then the design was that, when you reached retirement age, you would then get funds from the government for the rest of your life--your retirement funds.
接下来是这样设计的，当你退休的时候，你就能得到政府的资助,供你安享晚年，这就是养老金。
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.. You might say, optimists are those-- now in this more chastened version of optimism, optimists say, "Even if immortality would be bad eventually after a million years or ten million years or what have you, " the next chunk of life would've been good for all of us."
可以说，乐观主义者是那些-,对于比较保守的乐观主义者，他们会说，“就算一百万年或一千万年之后“,”永生最终是件坏事，但是“,'现在往后的一大段生活对所有人都是美好的“
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In the arts generally people who teach you the arts are going to shudder if you would say oh I interesting in this because it's such fun, because it tells you what life is like or tells you a story and then you'll repeat the story.
艺术一般来说,如果你对教你们艺术的人,说，哦，我对这个很感兴趣,因为它很有趣，因为它告诉你生活是什么,或说它告诉了你一个很好的故事，他会很震惊。
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Now you ask yourself, what I'm asking you to ask yourself, is would you want to spend your life ? hooked up to the experience machine?
我要你们问自己的是，你愿意像那样,被连接在体验机器上度过一生吗？
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Is there a kind of life that you would want to live forever?
你们是否有想永远过下去的一种生活？
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And I imagine that for most of you, when you ask yourself, would you want your entire life ? to be spent hooked up to the experience machine?
我想你们中多数人，当你们自问，是否愿意,在体验机器上度过一生？
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If only you'd known you were only going to have 20 more years instead of 50 more years, you would've picked a different kind of life for yourself.
如果你知道你只剩下,20年而不是50年，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。
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So until next time,I invite you to think that question through If you're trapped into the prospect of immortality ? what would the best kind of immortal life be like?
在下堂课之前我请你们思考这个问题,如果你们被困在永生的未来中,那最美好的永生会是什么样的？
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You would buy life insurance on both the husband and the wife -you might do different amounts; it's done by families with young children to protect them against the economic cost of the death of one of their parents.
夫妻双方都应该购买寿险,但两份保险的金额可以有所不同,这适用于有小孩子的家庭以弥补,因父亲或母亲去世而带来的经济损失
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- After all, if you knew-- suppose we had the birthmarks that told you -- when you were going to die-- if you had that kind of a birthmark, you would face your entire life with the burden of knowing, I've got 48 years left, 47 years left, 50 years left.
毕竟，如果你知道-,假设我们有个胎记能告诉你,你什么时候去世-,如果你有那种胎记，你一辈子都将面对那种知情的压力，我还剩48年，还剩47年，还剩50年。
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If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.
如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。
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Anyway, you have to overcome these-- you have to think that ... if you go into the field you would probably-- If you're successful-- you would probably end up as a philanthropist; but no movie will be made about your life and you may encounter hostility the whole way.
不管怎样，你们要克服这种想法-,你们要认为,如果你进入这一行，你很可能-,如果你成功了-,你很可能成为一位慈善家;,但是不会有电影记录你的人生,而且你可能整天遭受白眼。
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If you didn't really believe you were going to die, that is undergo bodily death, why would you take out life insurance?
如果人们不相信自己会死，不相信肉体的消亡，那为什么买人寿保险？
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