When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

  • -- Marcel Achard 马塞尔·阿夏尔

当我讲课时,我接受人们看表,但我不能容忍的是,当他们看表时,把表举到耳边,看表是否停了。

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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

有一个学术传统叫做“最后一课”。假设,如果你知道自己就要死了,而你还有最后一堂课,你会对你的学生说什么?对我来说,房间里有一头大象。房间里的大象,对我来说,这不是假设。

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

音乐在我家有两种传播方式。母亲偶尔会给我唱歌,但我主要是受到父亲留下的古典音乐的刺激。我对音乐很有鉴赏力,所以我对音乐产生了兴趣。

I find that putting my make-up on and playing with different looks is really relaxing for me before the show. It kind of helps me make that transition from 'mommy' to 'performer,' or star or whatever you want to call it!

我发现在演出前化妆和玩不同的造型对我来说是很放松的。它帮助我从“妈妈”过渡到“演员”,或者明星,或者任何你想叫它的东西!

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

对我来说,教育是学生灵魂深处的一种引导。对麦凯小姐来说,这是对一些不存在的东西的投入,而这不是我所说的教育。我称之为入侵。

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

我有点像穴居人——我不经常去数字空间。我面朝下躺在草地上,数着我能找到多少只虫子。

You don't have to forget them, but just accept that they're not that person anymore.

你不必忘记他们,但要接受他们不再是那个人。

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

向前看总是明智的,但要看得比你能看到的更远是困难的。

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

如果我无能为力,我不是那种会割掉一只耳朵的猫。

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

摄影需要瞬间的时间,通过静止来改变生活。

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.

演讲比你们许多人可能意识到的更像是对话。

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

你必须给人们机会来证明自己。

I look back to a happy childhood.

我回想起快乐的童年。

Act or accept.

行为或接受。