TED 戴安娜·纳亚德：永不放弃英中字幕.doc

It's the fifth time I stand on this shore,the Cuban shore,looking out at that distant horizon,believing, again,that I'm going to make itall the way across that vast,dangerous wilderness of an ocean.Not only have I tried four times,but the greatest swimmers in the worldhave been trying since 1950,and it's still never been done.The team is proud of our four attempts.It's an expedition of some 30 people.Bonnie is my best friend and head handler,who somehow summons will,that last drop of will within me, when I think it's gone,after many, many hours and days out there.The shark experts are the best in the world -large predators below.The box jellyfish, the deadliest venomin all of the ocean, is in these waters,and I have come close to dying from themon a previous attempt.The conditions themselves,besides the sheer distance of over 100 milesin the open ocean -the currents and whirling eddiesand the Gulf Stream itself, the most unpredictableof all of the planet Earth.And by the way, it's amusing to me thatjournalists and people before these attemptsoften ask me,"Well, are you going to go with any boatsor any people or anything?"And I'm thinking, what are they imagining?That I'll just sort of do some celestial navigation,and carry a bowie knife in my mouth,and I'll hunt fish and skin them alive and eat them,and maybe drag a desalinization plantbehind me for fresh water.(Laughter)Yes, I have a team. (Laughter)And the team is expert, and the team is courageous,and brimming with innovationand scientific discovery,as is true with any major expedition on the planet.And we've been on a journey.And the debate has raged, hasn't it,since the Greeks,of isn't it what it's all about?Isn't life about the journey,not really the destination?And here we've been on this journey,and the truth is, it's been thrilling.We haven't reached that other shore,and still our sense of pride and commitment,unwavering commitment.When I turned 60, the dream was still alivefrom having tried this in my 20s,and dreamed it and imagined it.The most famous body of wateron the Earth today, I imagine, Cuba to Florida.And it was deep. It was deep in my soul.And when I turned 60,it wasn't so much about the athletic accomplishment,it wasn't the ego of "I want to be the first."That's always there and it's undeniable.But it was deeper. It was, how much life is there left?Let's face it, we're all on a one-way street, aren't we,and what are we going to do?What are we going to do as we go forwardto have no regrets looking back?And all this past year in training,I had that Teddy Roosevelt quoteto paraphrase it, floating around in my brain,and it says, "You go ahead,you go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chairand you be the critic, you be the observer,while the brave one gets in the ring and engagesand gets bloody and gets dirty and failsover and over and over again,but yet isn't afraid and isn't timidand lives life in a bold way."And so of course I want to make it across.It is the goal, and I should be so shallow to saythat this year, the destination was even sweeterthan the journey.(Laughter) (Applause)But the journey itself was worthwhile taking.And at this point, by this summer,everybody - scientists, sports scientists,endurance experts, neurologists,my own team, Bonnie -said it's impossible.It just simply can't be done, and Bonnie said to me,"But if you're going to take the journey,I'm going to see you through to the end of it,so I'll be there."And now we're there.And as we're looking out, kind of a surreal momentbefore the first stroke,standing on the rocks at Marina Hemingway,the Cuban flag is flying above,all my team's out in their boats,hands up in the air, "We're here, we're here for you,"Bonnie and I look at each other, and we say,this year, the mantra is -and I've been using it in training -find a way.You have a dreamand you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do.None of us ever get through this lifewithout heartache,without turmoil,and if you believe and you have faithand you can get knocked downand get back up againand you believe in perseveranceas a great human quality,you find your way, andBonnie grabbed my shoulders,and she said, "Let's find our way to Florida."And we started, and for the next 53 hours,it was an intense, unforgettable life experience.The highs were high, the awe,I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you,to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Streamas if, as you're breathing,you're looking down miles and miles and miles,to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on,it's awe-inspiring.I have a playlist of about 85 songs,and especially in the middle of the night,and that night, because we use no lights -lights attract jellyfish, lights attract sharks,lights attract baitfish that attract sharks,so we go in the pitch black of the night.You've never seen black this black.You can't see the front of your hand,and the people on the boat,Bonnie and my team on the boat,they just hear the slapping of the arms,and they know where I am,because there's no visual at all.And I'm out there kind of tripping outon my little playlist.(Laughter)I've got a tight rubber cap,so I don't hear a thing.I've got goggles and I'm turningmy head 50 times a minute,and I'm singing,鈾?Imagine there's no heaven 鈾?鈾?doo doo doo doo doo 鈾?鈾?It's easy if you try 鈾?鈾?doo doo doo doo doo 鈾?And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.(Laughter)Now there's a talent unto itself.(Laughter) (Applause)And each time I get done with鈾?Ooh, you may say I'm a dreamerbut I'm not the only one 鈾?222.鈾?Imagine there's no heaven 鈾?And when I get through the end of a thousandof John Lennon's "Imagine,"I have swum nine hours and 45 minutes,exactly.And then there are the crises. Of course there are.And the vomiting starts,the seawater, you're not well,you're wearing a jellyfish maskfor the ultimate protection.It's difficult to swim in.It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth,but the tentacles can't get you.And the hypothermia sets in.The water's 85 degrees, and yet you're losing weightand using calories, and as you come overtoward the side of the boat, not allowed to touch it,not allowed to get out,but Bonnie and her team hand me nutritionand asks me what I'm doing, am I all right,I am seeing the Taj Mahal over here.I'm in a very different state,and I'm thinking, wow, I never thoughtI'd be running into the Taj Mahal out here.It's gorgeous.I mean, how long did it take them to build that?It's just - So, uh, wooo. (Laughter)And then we kind of have a cardinal rulethat I'm never told, really, how far it is,because we don't know how far it is.What's going to happen to youbetween this point and that point?What's going to happen to the weatherand the currents and, God forbid, you're stungwhen you don't think you couldbe stung in all this armor,and Bonnie made a decisioncoming into that third morningthat I was sufferingand I was hanging on by a threadand she said, "Come here,"and I came close to the boat, and she said,"Look, look out there,"and I saw light, because theday's easier than the night,and I thought we were coming into day,and I saw a stream of white lightalong the horizon,and I said, "It's going to be morning soon."And she said, "No, those are the lights of Key West."It was 15 more hours,which for most swimmers would be a long time.(Laughter) (Applause)You have no idea how many15-hour training swims I had done.So here we go, and I somehow, without a decision,went into no counting of strokesand no singing and no quoting Stephen Hawkingand the parameters of the universe,I just went into thinking about this dream,and why, and how.And as I said, when I turned 60,it wasn't about that concrete "Can you do it?"That's the everyday machinations.That's the discipline, and it's the preparation,and there's a pride in that.But I decided to think, as I went along, about,the phrase usually is reaching for the stars,and in my case, it's reaching for the horizon.And when you reach for the horizon,as I've proven, you may not get there,but what a tremendous build of character and spiritthat you lay down.What a foundation you lay down in reachingfor those horizons.And now the shore is coming,and there's just a little part of me that's sad.The epic journey is going to be over.So many people come up to me now and say,"What's next? We love that!That little tracker that was on the computer?When are you going to do the next one?We just can't wait to follow the next one."Well, they were just there for 53 hours,and I was there for years.And so there won't be anotherepic journey in the ocean.But the point is, and the point wasthat every day of our lives is epic,and I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach,staggered up onto that beach,and I had so many timesin a very puffed up ego way,rehearsed what I would say on the beach.When Bonnie thought thatthe back of my throat was swelling up,and she brought the medical team over to our boatto say that she's really beginningto have trouble breathing.Another 12, 24 hours in the saltwater,the whole thing - and I just thoughtin my hallucinatory moment, thatI heard the word tracheotomy.(Laughter)And Bonnie said to the doctor,"I'm not worried about her not breathing.If she can't talk when she gets to the shore,she's gonna be pissed off."(Laughter)But the truth is, all those orationsthat I had practiced just to get myself throughsome training swims as motivation,it wasn't like that.It was a very real moment,with that crowd, with my team.We did it. I didn't do it. We did it.And we'll never forget it. It'll always be part of us.And the three things that I did sort of blurt outwhen we got there, was first, "Never, ever give up."I live it. What's the phrasefrom today from Socrates?To be is to do.So I don't stand up and say, don't ever give up.I didn't give up, and therewas action behind these words.The second is, "You can chase your dreamsat any age; you're never too old."Sixty-four, that no one at any age, any gender,could ever do, has done it,and there's no doubt in my mindthat I am at the prime of my life today.(Applause)Yeah.Thank you.And the third thing I said on that beach was,"It looks like the most solitary endeavor in the world,and in many ways, of course, it is,and in other ways, and the most important ways,it's a team, and if you think I'm a badass,you want to meet Bonnie."(Laughter)Bonnie, where are you?Where are you?There's Bonnie Stoll. (Applause)My buddy.The Henry David Thoreau quote goes,when you achieve your dreams, it'snot so much what you getas who you have become in achieving them.And yeah, I stand before you now.In the three months since that swim ended,I've sat down with Oprahand I've been in President Obama's Oval Office.I've been invited to speak in front ofesteemed groups such as yourselves.I've signed a wonderful major book contract.All of that's great, and I don't denigrate it.I'm proud of it all, but the truth is,I'm walking around tall because I am that bold,fearless person, and I will be, every day,until it's time for these days to be done.Thank you very much and enjoy the conference.Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. (Applause)Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.Thank you.Find a way! (Applause)这是我第五次站在这个海岸，古巴海岸，望着远处的地平线，我再次相信我可以穿越这一片广阔、危险的海洋荒野。不仅仅是我已经尝试了四次，世界上其他伟大的游泳健将自从1950年以来就开始尝试了，而至今还没有人可以做到。我们的团队为前四次的尝试感到引以为豪。它是大约30人组成的远征。邦妮是我最好的朋友兼领队，不知如何竟召唤起了我的勇气，那最后一滴我以为已经消失了的勇气，在经历过无数个外面的日日夜夜后。我们有着全世界最好的鲨鱼专家，海底深处有大型的敌人。有箱型水母，海洋中最致命的毒液，在这片海洋，这片水域里我前一次尝试的时候差点因此死亡。我前一次的尝试差点因此死亡。这些条件本身，除了浩瀚海洋中100多英里的距离，除了浩瀚海洋中100多英里的距离，还有洋流和旋转的涡流，和墨西哥湾流本身，是地球上最不可预知的。顺便说一句，我觉得很可笑的是记者和一些人在这些尝试之前经常问我："那你有带着任何船只或任何人或什么东西一起去吗？”而我在想，他们到底都在想什么？以为我会运用什么天文导航嘴里叼着一把猎刀，亲自捕鱼，现场扒皮并食用吗？还是也许身后还拖着一个海水淡化装置来换取淡水（笑声）是的，我有一个团队。（笑声）这个团队的人都是专家，他们非常勇敢，而且溢满了创新力与科学发现，地球上任何大型的远征都是这样的。我们踏上了一个旅途。对此人们一直有激烈的争论，自希腊人以来难道不都是关于旅途吗？难道生活不就是关于旅途，而不是目的地么？而我们一直都在这个旅途中，事实是，这一路刺激极了。我们还没到达彼岸，然而，我们有强烈的自豪感和决心，坚定不移的决心。我60岁的时候，那个梦还活着，从20多岁时候的尝试，到后来一直梦想着，想象着。我想，如今地球上最出名的水域就是古巴到佛罗里达一带。它很深，深到我的灵魂深处。我60岁的时候，它不再是关于那些竞技成就，不是关于"我想要第一名"的自我。无可否认地，那个自我一直都在但它更深。是关于生命还剩下多少时间？我们承认吧。我们都在单行道上，不是吗？那我们应该怎么做呢？我们应该做些什么才能在前进的路上回头看时没有遗憾？过去这一年训练的时候，西奥多·罗斯福的一句话一直在我的脑海回荡，大致是：”你尽管，你尽管坐在你那舒服的椅子上，你做个评论家，你做个观察员，同时那个勇敢的人走上拳击台开始比赛，血流了下来，有点脏，他倒了下去，一次又一次，但是他不害怕不胆怯，用一种勇敢的方式去生活。”所以当然我想要跨越这一湾水。这是目标，我也坦率地跟大家说今年，目的地尝到的滋味比旅途更甜（笑声）（掌声）但旅途本身是值得的。这个时候，今年夏天，每个人科学家、 运动科学家、耐力专家、神经专家，我自己的团队，邦妮 都说这是不可能的。这是肯定做不到的。这时邦妮对我说，"但是如果你真的要踏上这个旅途，我会从头到尾看着你，所以我会在的。“而我们就去了。启程之前，我们一眼望去，感觉一切都是那么地不真实，在划出去的前一刻我们站在海明威码头的岩石上，古巴旗帜在上空飘扬，我的团队在他们的船上，手高高举起并说着：“我们在这里。我们会为你加油。”邦妮和我相互对望了一眼，我们说：今年，我们的口头禅是我在训练的时候也一直用它找到出路。你有一个梦想，你的前方有障碍，我们都一样。没有一个人可以不经历任何心痛、任何动荡地走完人生，如果你相信，如果你有任何信仰，你可以被打倒再重新站起来，你相信毅力是人类最伟大的优点，你会找到你的出路。邦妮抓住我的肩膀，她说：“让我们找到去佛罗里达的路吧。”接着我们出发了，接下来的53个小时给我们带来了刺激的、令人难忘的人生经历。高处很高，还有敬畏，我不是一个信教的人，但是我要告诉你的是，身处在墨西哥湾流的湛蓝之中，你一边呼吸，一边看着前方无尽的一片，感受到我们生活在的这个蓝色星球的雄伟，真的让人叹为观止。我有一个大概85首歌的播放列表，特别是在半夜的时候，那个晚上，因为我们没有灯光灯光会引来水母、鲨鱼，灯光会引来那些鲨鱼喜欢的饵料鱼，所以我们就在一片漆黑的黑夜中行进。你从来没有见过这种黑暗。你看不见自己眼前的手，和船上的人，邦妮的我的团队，他们透过听到手臂拍打的声音，才知道我在哪里，因为用肉眼是看不见的。而我就在那儿沉浸在我的音乐里（笑声）我戴着一个很紧的橡胶帽，所以我什么也听不见。我戴着泳镜，一分钟内转50次头而我在唱，想象没有天堂doo doo doo doo doo这不难，如果你尝试 doo doo doo doo doo这个歌我可以连续唱上一千遍。（笑声）我觉得这本身也是一种才能。（笑声）（掌声）每一次到结尾的时候， 你可能说我是一个梦想家，但我不是唯一的 222。想象没有天堂当我唱完一千遍的时候，约翰列农的想象我已经游了9个小时45分钟，丝毫不差。当然也有危机出现时候，当然有。我开始呕吐，还有海水，你感觉不舒服，你戴着高效保护的水母面具。带着它更难游泳导致你嘴巴里面出现磨损，可是你不會再被水母觸角螫到接着身体出现低温。水温是85华氏度（约29摄氏度），你的体重开始减轻和消耗热量，当你慢慢靠近船只边缘，不能触碰，不能放弃，但是邦妮和团队递给我营养物质，并问我怎么样，是否一切都好，而我却看到了泰姬陵。我已经进入了一个非常不同的境界，我在想，天那，我从来没有想过我会在这里看到泰姬陵。简直太美了。这，他们得用了多长时间才造出来啊？简直，简直哇！（笑声）我们有一个基本规则，就是没有人会告诉我已经游了多远，因为我们不知道。从这里到那里会