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3 things I learned while my plane crashed

飞机失事时我学到的三件事

里克·埃利亚斯是哈德逊河迫降航班上的乘客。他用不到五分钟,讲述飞机失去动力的那几分钟里想明白的三件事:别再拖延、别为琐事消耗重要的人、做个好父亲。故事紧凑、句子短小,适合初学者练听力,并积累谈论优先级与取舍的表达。

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台词(44 句)

00:04
Imagine a big explosion as you climb through 3,000 ft.

想象一下:当飞机爬升到三千英尺时,发生了一声巨响的爆炸。

00:10
Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack.

想象机舱里满是浓烟。想象引擎发出喀啦、喀啦、喀啦的声响。

00:17
It sounds scary. Well, I had a unique seat that day. I was sitting in 1D.

听起来很吓人。那天我的座位很特别,我坐在 1D。

00:23
I was the only one who could talk to the flight attendants. So I looked at them right away, and they said, "No problem. We probably hit some birds."

我是唯一能和空乘说上话的人。于是我立刻看向他们,他们说:「没问题,我们大概是撞上鸟了。」

00:31
The pilot had already turned the plane around, and we weren't that far. You could see Manhattan.

机长已经把飞机掉了头,而我们离得并不远,已经能看到曼哈顿。

00:37
Two minutes later, three things happened at the same time.

两分钟后,三件事同时发生了。

00:42
The pilot lines up the plane with the Hudson River.

机长把飞机对准了哈德逊河。

00:46
That's usually not the route. (Laughter) He turns off the engines.

那通常可不是航线。(笑声)他关掉了引擎。

00:52
Now, imagine being in a plane with no sound. And then he says three words.

想象一下,坐在一架毫无声响的飞机里。然后他说了三个词。

00:58
The most unemotional three words I've ever heard. He says, "Brace for impact."

那是我听过最不带情绪的三个词。他说:「做好撞击准备。」

01:04
I didn't have to talk to the flight attendant anymore. (Laughter) I could see in her eyes, it was terror.

我不必再问空乘什么了。(笑声)我从她眼里看到的,是恐惧。

01:12
Life was over. Now I want to share with you three things I learned about myself that day.

人生结束了。现在,我想和你们分享那天我认识到的关于自己的三件事。

01:19
I learned that it all changes in an instant.

我明白了:一切都可能在一瞬间改变。

01:23
We have this bucket list, we have these things we want to do in life, and I thought about all the people I wanted to reach out to that I didn't,

我们都有一份人生愿望清单,有一堆这辈子想做的事。我想到所有那些我想联系却没有联系的人,

01:31
all the fences I wanted to mend, all the experiences I wanted to have and I never did.

所有我想修补的裂痕,所有我想拥有却从未去经历的体验。

01:36
As I thought about that later on, I came up with a saying, which is, "I collect bad wines."

后来我回想这件事,想出了一句话:「我收藏的都是差酒。」

01:43
Because if the wine is ready and the person is there, I'm opening it. I no longer want to postpone anything in life.

因为只要酒到了火候、人也在场,我就会把它打开。我不想再把人生中的任何事往后拖。

01:50
And that urgency, that purpose, has really changed my life.

那种紧迫感、那种目标感,真的改变了我的人生。

01:54
The second thing I learned that day -- and this is as we clear the George Washington Bridge,

那天我学到的第二件事——就发生在我们飞过乔治·华盛顿大桥的时候,

02:00
which was by not a lot -- (Laughter) I thought about, wow, I really feel one real regret.

而且掠过的高度并不多——(笑声)我当时想:哇,我真的只有一件后悔的事。

02:07
I've lived a good life. In my own humanity and mistakes, I've tried to get better at everything I tried.

我过了不错的一生。带着自己的人性和种种错误,我努力把尝试过的每件事都做得更好。

02:13
But in my humanity, I also allow my ego to get in.

但也正因为是人,我让自己的自负钻了空子。

02:17
And I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that matter.

我后悔自己把时间浪费在了不重要的事情上,而对面坐着的却是我生命中重要的人。

02:24
And I thought about my relationship with my wife, with my friends, with people.

我想到我和妻子、和朋友、和身边人的关系。

02:29
And after, as I reflected on that, I decided to eliminate negative energy from my life.

之后,当我反思这一切时,我决定清除生命中的负能量。

02:33
It's not perfect, but it's a lot better. I've not had a fight with my wife in two years.

做得还不算完美,但已经好了很多。我已经两年没和妻子吵过架了。

02:39
It feels great. I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.

感觉很棒。我不再执着于争对错,我选择快乐。

02:45
The third thing I learned -- and this is as your mental clock starts going, "15, 14, 13."

我学到的第三件事——那时你脑子里的时钟开始倒数:「15、14、13。」

02:51
You can see the water coming. I'm saying, "Please blow up." I don't want this thing to break in 20 pieces like you've seen in those documentaries.

你看得见水面正在逼近。我心里说:「拜托,炸了吧。」我不想这东西像纪录片里那样碎成二十块。

02:59
And as we're coming down, I had a sense of, wow, dying is not scary.

在我们下坠的过程中,我有一种感觉:哇,死亡并不可怕。

03:06
It's almost like we've been preparing for it our whole lives. But it was very sad.

那几乎就像我们一辈子都在为它做准备。但这件事非常令人悲伤。

03:11
I didn't want to go; I love my life. And that sadness really framed in one thought, which is, I only wish for one thing.

我不想走,我热爱我的生活。而那份悲伤最后凝成了一个念头:我只希望一件事。

03:22
I only wish I could see my kids grow up.

我只希望能看着我的孩子长大。

03:26
About a month later, I was at a performance by my daughter -- first-grader, not much artistic talent -- (Laughter) Yet!

大约一个月后,我去看女儿的表演——她读一年级,没什么艺术天赋——(笑声)目前还没有!

03:34
(Laughter) And I'm bawling, I'm crying, like a little kid.

(笑声)而我哭得稀里哗啦,像个小孩子一样。

03:41
And it made all the sense in the world to me. I realized at that point, by connecting those two dots, that the only thing that matters in my life is being a great dad.

那一刻,一切对我来说都说得通了。把这两件事连起来,我意识到:我生命中唯一重要的事,就是做一个了不起的父亲。

03:52
Above all, above all, the only goal I have in life is to be a good dad.

最重要的、最重要的是,我人生中唯一的目标,就是做个好父亲。

03:58
I was given the gift of a miracle, of not dying that day.

我得到了一份奇迹般的礼物:那天我没有死。

04:02
I was given another gift, which was to be able to see into the future and come back and live differently.

我还得到了另一份礼物:能够看见未来,然后回来,换一种活法。

04:11
I challenge you guys that are flying today, imagine the same thing happens on your plane -- and please don't -- but imagine, and how would you change?

我想问问今天要坐飞机的各位:想象同样的事发生在你的航班上——当然千万别——但请想象一下,你会做出什么改变?

04:21
What would you get done that you're waiting to get done because you think you'll be here forever?

有哪些你一直在等着做的事,会被你真正做完?就因为你以为自己会永远待在这里。

04:26
How would you change your relationships and the negative energy in them? And more than anything, are you being the best parent you can?

你会怎样改变你的人际关系,以及其中的负能量?而最重要的是:你有没有在尽力做一个最好的父母?

04:33
Thank you.

谢谢各位。

04:34
(Applause)

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