公众人物毕业演讲 第242期:乔斯韦登2013卫斯理大学(2)(在线收听

   I mean, it can't get more depressing

  我是说 没有更让人沮丧的了
  You have, in fact, already begun to die
  你们实际上已经开始迈向死亡
  You look great
  你们气色很好
  Don't get me wrong. And you know, you are youth and beauty不要误解我的话 你们年轻而美丽
  You are at the physical peak
  你们正值身体巅峰状态
  Your bodies have just gotten off the ski slope on the peak of growth and potential你们的身体正处在生长和潜能的滑雪场顶端
  and now comes the black diamond mogul run to the grave现在正使用各种滑雪技巧朝坟墓直奔而去
  And the weird thing is
  奇怪的是
  your body wants to die
  你的身体希望死亡
  On a cellular level, that's what it wants就细胞层面而言 这正是它想要的
  And that's probably not what you want
  这可能不是你所想要的
  I'm confronted by a great deal of grand and worthy ambition from this student body从你们这些学生那里 我了解到了各种宏图大志You want to be a politician, a social worker有人想当政治人物 社会工作者
  You want to be an artist
  有人想当艺术家
  Your body's ambition: Mulch
  但身体的志向是 粪土
  Your body wants to make some babies
  你们身体希望生出一些小孩
  and then go in the ground and fertilize things然后到泥土中去滋养大地
  That's it
  就是这样了
  And that seems like a bit of a contradiction这听起来有点矛盾
  It doesn't seem even fair
  甚至不公平
  For one thing, we're telling you, "Go out into the world!"一边我们告诉你 "勇敢迈向世界吧"
  exactly when your body is saying, "Hey, let's bring it down a notch一边你的身体却告诉你 "嘿 我们缓缓吧"
  Let's take it down"
  "让我们歇歇得了"
  And it is a contradiction
  这确实有些矛盾
  And that's actually what I'd like to talk to you about这正是我想跟你们讲的
  The contradiction between your body and your mind你身体和心智的矛盾
  between your mind and itself
  心智和它自身的矛盾
 
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