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讲座
Lecture
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。
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
有些人在睡梦中说话。当别人睡觉时，老师们却在讲话。
Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.
事情并不总是像看上去的那样。别让我开始上课，否则你要上四个小时的课。
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.
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。
Brilliant lecturers shouldn’t be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear on TV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don’t leave out the poor.
优秀的演讲者不应该浪费在教室里:他们应该出现在电视上。我们需要黑市大学，在那里人们互相帮助，不把穷人排除在外。
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。