Really achieving your childhood dreams (excerpt) by 龙钰虹

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Really achieving your childhood dreams (excerpt)
真正实现你童年的梦想（节选）
By Randy Pausch
It’s wonderful to be here. What Indira didn’t tell is that this leture series used to be called the last lecture. If you have one last lectute to give before you died, what would be? I thought, damn, I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it. So, you know, in case there is anybody who wandered in and doesn’t know the back story, my dad always told me when there’s an elephant in the room, introduce them. If you look at my CAT scans, there are approximately 10 tumors in my liver, and the doctors told me three to six months of good health left. There was a month ago, so you can do the math. I have some of the best doctors in the world. Microphone’s not working? Then I’ll just have to talk louder. Is that good? All right. So that is what it is. We can’t change it, and we just have to decide how we are going to respond to that. We can’t change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
很高兴来到这里。印迪拉没告诉过你们这一个系列的讲座曾被称为最后的讲座。如果你在临死前还可以做最后一次讲座，那它的主题会是什么呢？我想，哎，我终于到最后一刻了，而他们又为这重新命了名。我父亲总是告诉我要敢于面对弱点，承认缺陷。所以，你看，以防万一有人还在闲逛而不知道我这个演讲的背景，我现在就介绍清楚。如果你看我的计算机轴向断层扫描，就会发现我肝脏上有上十个肿瘤，而医生告诉我说我还能活3到6个月。这发生在一个月前，那么，你们可以计算一下我只剩多少日子了。我有世界上最好的医生。麦克风效果不好？那么我把声音放大些就行了。现在行了吗？好的。事实就是这样，我们无法改变，只能决定如何回应。我们不能改变手中的牌，只能改变出牌的顺序。如果你们觉得我没有表现出应有的沮丧和郁闷，实在对不起，我让你们失望了。
All right, so what is today’s talk about then? It’s about my childhood dreams and how I have achieved them. I’ve been very fortunate that way. How I believe I’ve been able to enable the dreams, I’ve been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned-----I’m a professor, there should be some lessons learned----and how you can use the stuff you hear today to achieve the dreams or enable the dreams of the others. And as you get older, you may find that “enabling the dreams of others ” thing is even more fun.
好了，那么今天的主题是什么呢？那是关于我的儿时梦想和我是怎样实现他们的。从那方面说，我真的很幸运。我会讲讲我是怎样相信我实现了自己的梦想，帮助他人实现梦想，从某种角度说，经验和教训--我是个教授，就总会有些经验教训的--以及你们怎么运用今天听到的东西去实现你们的梦想或是助他人梦想成真。当你们老了的时候，你们会发现，助人梦想成真甚至更加有趣。
So what were my childhood dreams? You may not agree with this list, but I was there. Being in zero gravity, playing in the National Football League, anthoring an article in the World Book Encyclopedia----I think you can tell the nerds early. Being Captain Kirk, anybody here have that childhood dream? Not at CMU(Carnegie Mellon University), no. I wanted to become one of the guys who won the big stuffed animals in the amusement park, and I wanted to be an Imagineer with Disney. This are not sorted in any particular order, although I think they do get harder, except for maybe the first one.
那么，我儿时的梦想有什么呢？也许你们不同意这些，但我确实有这些梦想：待在没有重力的环境，在国家足球队踢球，在世界百科全书中发表一篇文章--也许你们早就发现我是个书呆子了吧？成为柯克船长，你们有谁在童年有过这个梦想吗？不是能在卡麦基梅隆大学读书，不是。我希望成为能在游乐场里赢得超大毛绒玩具的人中的一个，我希望成为迪斯尼的假想工程师。这些梦想并没有先后顺序，虽然我觉得它们真的一个比一个难以实现，除了第一个。
All right, let’s talk about football. My dream was to play in the National Football League. And most of you don’t know that I actually ----no. No, I didn’t make it to the National Football League, but I probably get more from that dream and not accomplishing it than I got from any of the ones that I did accomplish.
那我们就先说关于足球的吧，我的梦想是能在国家足球队踢球，而你们中的大部分都知道我其实并没有实现它。是没有。但我从那个梦想中获得了更多，比从那些实现了的梦想中获得的更多。
I had a coach; I signed up when I was nine years old. I was the smallest kid in the league, by far. And I had a coach, Jim Graham, who was 6’4”; he had played linebacker at Penn State. He was just this hulk of a guy and he was old school. Ok, I mean really old school. Like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. So, and he showed up for practice the first day, and you know, there’s big hulking guy, we were all scared to death of him. And he hadn’t brought any footballs. How are we going to practice without any footballs? And one of the other kids said, “excuse me, coach, but there’s no football.” And Coach Graham said, “Right, and how many men are on a football field at a time?” “Eleven on a team,22.” Coach Graham said, “All right, and how many people are touching the football at any given time?” “One of them.” And he said, “ Right, so we’re going to work on what those other 21 guys are doing.” And that’s a really good story because it’s all about fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
我有个教练，我在九岁时和一个足球联盟签约，我是那时队里最小的一个。我的教练是吉姆·格雷厄姆，他有六英尺四英寸高，是佩恩州的后卫球员。他就是这样一个守旧派的大个子。恩，我指的是真正的守旧派。就比如说他认为传球前进是种迷惑对方的打法。他在第一天就把这带入了训练。你们知道，我们都非常害怕这个大个头家伙，而他连球都没带。一个小孩说：“对不起，教练，可是我们没有球啊！”他答道：“是的，那么球场上一次有多少球员上场呢？”“每队11人，共22人。”他又问：“对，那么有多少人能同时接触到球呢？”“一个人。”他答道：“是啊，所以我们就要训练那其余的21个人该做的事。”那段经历很有用，因为那都是练基本功。你必须练好基本功，要不然所有的美好设想都不会成为现实。
And the other Jim Graaham story I have is there was one practice where he just rode me all practice. You’re doing this wrong, you’re doing this wrong, go back and do it again, you owe me, you’re doing push-ups after practice. And when it was all over, one of the other assistant coaches came over and said, “ Yeah, Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn’t he?” I said, “ Yeah.” He said, “That’s a good thing.” He said, “When you’re screwing up and nobody’s saying anything to you anymore, that means they give up.” And that’s a lesson that stuck with me my whole life, is that when you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.
另一个有关吉姆·格雷厄姆教练的故事就是在一次训练中他监督我做所有的练习。“你这里做错了”，“你那里做错了”，“回去”，“从来”，“你欠了我的，练习完后你还要做俯卧撑”……当这些完全结束后，一个助教走过来说：“格雷厄姆教练对你的训练很严格啊，不是吗？”“是啊！”我答道。“这是件好事”他说，“如果你犯了错误而没有人对你说什么，那就表示他们放弃你了。”那一课让我终身难忘，因为它让我懂得：当我自己都知道自己做错了，而没有人愿意指出来时，那就非常糟糕了。那些批评你的人也就是那些告诉你他们仍然爱你、关心你的人。

Cinderella

I finally nailed the venue and they renamed it. 我总算找对地方了，但是他们又重新命名这个演讲了。

there’s an elephant in the room这是个成语，表示有一件事大家不可能视而不见，但又不愿谈及

And most of you don’t know that I actually ----no. No, I didn’t make it to the National Football League你们大部分人不知道我实际上——不，没有，我并没有成为全美橄榄球联队的球员。

I was the smallest kid in the league, by far 迄今最小的队员

and he showed up for practice the first day他在第一天就把这带入了训练。——误译

How are we going to practice without any footballs  漏译

do it again“从来”？？