03　We Beat the Reaper by Living Fully B我们通过充实地生活来战胜死亡B

Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Professor Carnegie Mellon University, September 18，2007

兰迪·波许在卡内基·梅隆大学的演讲

The second thing I would add to that, and I didn't coordinate on the subject of this word but I think it's the right word that comes up, is passion. And you will need to find your passion.Many of you have already done it, many of you will later, many of you will take till your 30s or 40s.But don't give up on finding it.Alright?Because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.Find you passion and follow it.

第二件事我想补充说的是，我并没有使用“计划”这个字眼，我认为另一个字眼更合适，就是“热情”这个词。你们必须找到自己激情所在。或许你们很多人都已经有了，很多人以后总会有的，还有甚者是自己三四十岁才找到。但是千万不要放弃寻找好吗？如果你放弃了，死神就会来到你的身边了。

And if there's anything I have learned in my life, you will not find passion in things. And you will not find that passion in money.Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric, and there will always be someone with more.

如果说我一生中还学到了什么的话，那就是你无法从物质上找到什么激情。更不会从金钱上找到激情。因为你拥有越多财富和金钱，你就越想去比较周围的世界，而你总是能看到比你更富有的人。

So your passion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. And honors and awards are nice things but only to be the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.And to be thought well of by other people that you think even more highly of is a tremendous honor that I've been granted.

因此，你的热情必须来自于能够从内在激发你的事情。荣誉和奖励是很好的，但是这些要出于同行们对你真正的尊敬。或者像我一样能够得到我尊敬人的认同，这才是最大荣誉。

Find you passion and in my experience, no matter what you do at work or what you do in official settings, that passion would be grounded in people. And it will be grounded in the relationships you have with people and what they think of you when you time comes.And if you can gain the respect of those around you, and the passion and true love, and I've said this before, but I waited till 39 to get married because I had to wait that long to find someone where her happiness was more important than mine.And if nothing else I hope that all of you can find that kind of passion and that kind of love in your life.

去寻找你的热情吧，在我看来，无论你从事何种工作或者处在怎样的工作环境之中，你的激情来自于你周围的人。激情基于人际关系，基于你离开人世时，人们对你的评价。如果你还能够赢得身边人的尊敬的话，正如我之前的热情和真爱。我直到39岁才结婚，因为我等了很久才遇到一位让我感到她的幸福比我的更重要的人。抛开这一切不谈，我愿在座的各位，此生都能够找到这样的热情和真爱。

Thank you！

谢谢！

单词解析Word Analysis

coordinate[kəʊˈɔːdɪneɪt]v.调整；协调

例　You must coordinate the movements of your arms and legs when swimming.

游泳时你必须使手臂和腿的动作相协调。

passion[ˈpæʃən]n.激情；热情

例　His passion for the computer games has cooled down.

他对电脑游戏的热情已经冷却了。

metric[ˈmɛtrɪk]adj.公制的；公尺的n.度量标准

例　Whatever your metric of success is, you should be positive

towards what you have achieved.

不论你衡量成功的标准是什么，都应该积极地面对自己的成就。

regard[rɪˈgɑːd]v.尊敬；注重；考虑

例　One must show proper regard for the teachers.

我们应该足够尊重老师。

tremendous[trɪˈmendəs]adj.巨大的

例　Tremendous changes have taken place here.

这里发生了巨大的变化。

ground[graʊnd]v.打基础n.地面

例　Fiction should be grounded in reality.

小说应来源于现实生活。

语法知识点Grammar Points

①The second thing I would add to that, and I didn’t coordinate on the subject of this word but I think it’s the right word that comes up, is passion.

这个句子中有一个结构“come up”，在这里表示“被提出”。Come up这个词还表示“走近；发生；开始；上升；发芽”。

例　The questions of wage increase came up at the meeting.

增加工资问题已经在会议中提出。

I will tell you immediately if anything comes up.

如果发生了什么事情，我将立即告诉你。

②But don’t give up on finding it.

这个句子中有一个结构“give up on doing”，表示“放弃做某事”。和give up doing意思相同。give up doing更为正式。

③Because the more things and the more money you have, the more you will just look around and use that as the metric, and there will always be someone with more.

这个句子中有一个结构“the more……，the more……”，表示“越……，越……”，是比较级的用法。

例　The more you learn, the more you wish to learn.

你学的越多，就越想学。

经典名句Famous Classics

1.There is no elevator to success.You have to take the stairs.

成功没有电梯，只有一步一个脚印的楼梯。

2.What we know or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence.The only consequence is what we do.

我们知道的或相信的，本质上并不重要。唯一重要的是：我们做的。

3.Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.

强者才懂得斗争；弱者没有失败的资格，而是生来就是被征服的。

4.Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

伟大的成就并非源自一时冲动，而是由一系列小事汇聚而成的。

5.Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

永远都要做最好的自己，而不是第二好的别人。

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