A love letter to realism in a time of grief | Mark Pollock and Simone George

翻译人员: Zidong Jin 校对人员: Joanna Liu

Simone George: I met Mark when he was just blind.

西蒙娜·乔治: 我遇见马克的时候， 他刚刚失去视力。

I had returned home to live in Dublin

在我二十多的时候， 经历了长途跋涉，

after the odyssey that was my 20s,

我回到了都柏林的家，

educating my interest in human rights and equality in university,

在大学中教授我感兴趣的 人权和平等课程，

traveling the world, like my nomad grandmother.

像我那游牧血统的奶奶一样环游世界。

And during a two-year stint working in Madrid,

在马德里工作的两年中，

dancing many nights till morning in salsa clubs.

我们经常在萨尔萨舞俱乐部跳舞到天亮。

When I met Mark, he asked me to teach him to dance.

当我遇到马克时，他请我教他跳舞。

And I did.

我照做了。

They were wonderful times, long nights talking,

随着这些美好的时光 和半夜的促膝长谈，

becoming friends and eventually falling for each other.

我们先成了朋友，后来与对方相爱。

Mark had lost his sight when he was 22,

马克在他 22 岁时失去了视力，

and the man that I met eight years later was rebuilding his identity,

但是 8 年后当我认识这个男人的时候， 他在重新建立自己的身份，

the cornerstone of which was this incredible spirit

这项艰巨任务的奠基石 便是他那强大的精神，

that had taken him to the Gobi Desert, where he ran six marathons in seven days.

支撑着他在戈壁滩的 7 天中 跑了 6 个马拉松，

And to marathons at the North Pole, and from Everest Base Camp.

也帮助他在珠穆朗玛峰营地 和北极的马拉松中坚持了下来。

When I asked him what had led to this high-octane life,

当我问他是什么让他在这样 高强度的生活中坚持了下来，

he quoted Nietzsche:

他用尼采的话回答了我，

"He, who has a Why to live, can bear with almost any How."

“一个人知道自己为什么而活， 就可以忍受任何一种生活。”

He had come across the quote in a really beautiful book

他在一本精彩的书， 《追寻生命的意义》中

called "Man's Search for Meaning," by Viktor Frankl,

读到了这句话。 作者维克多·埃弗兰克尔

a neurologist and psychiatrist

是一名神经科学和精神科学医生，

who survived years in a Nazi concentration camp.

他在纳粹的集中营中存活了下来。

Frankl used this Nietzsche quote to explain to us

弗兰克尔引用尼采这句名言 向我们解释了一个道理：

that when we can no longer change our circumstances,

我们无法改变我们所处的困境，

we are challenged to change ourselves.

但是我们可以挑战改变自己。

Mark Pollock: Eventually, I did rebuild my identity,

马克·波洛克：最终， 我成功的改变了自己的身份，

and the Why for me was about competing again,

生活的意义对于我来说 是重新开始竞争，

because pursuing success and risking failure

因为只有当我在冒着 失败的风险去追求成功时，

was simply how I felt normal.

我才感觉到自己和其他人 没什么不一样。

And I finished the rebuild

在我失去视力的第十个年头，

on the 10th anniversary of losing my sight.

我完成了这种改变。

I took part in a 43-day expedition race

我去参加了一个 长达 43 天的探险比赛，

in the coldest, most remote, most challenging place on earth.

比赛地点是地球上最冷， 最遥远，最具有挑战性的地方。

It was the first race to the South Pole

自从 100 年前探险家沙克尔顿、 斯科特、阿蒙森踏上南极洲的土地之后，

since Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen set foot in Antarctica, 100 years before.

这是前往南极的第一个比赛。

And putting the demons of blindness behind me

当我一步一步的踏上去南极的征程，

with every step towards the pole,

我把失明的恐怖抛在了身后，

it offered me a long-lasting sense of contentment.

这让我在旅途中 感受到了长久的满足感。

As it turned out, I would need that in reserve,

后来我发现， 我需要继续保持这种满足感，

because one year after my return,

因为在我从南极回来的一年后，

in, arguably, the safest place on earth,

我在无疑是这世界上最安全的地方

a bedroom at a friend's house,

——我从朋友家

I fell from a third-story window onto the concrete below.

卧室的三层的窗户摔到了水泥地上。

I don't know how it happened.

我不知道这是怎么发生的。

I think I must have got up to go to the bathroom.

我当时大概是起床去上洗手间，

And because I'm blind, I used to run my hand along the wall

但是因为我失明了，所以我用手摸着墙，

to find my way.

想要找到我要去的地方，

That night, my hand found an open space where the closed window should have been.

那天晚上，我摸索到了一个开阔的地方， 而那里本应该有一扇关着的窗户，

And I cartwheeled out.

我顺着就翻了出去。

My friends who found me thought I was dead.

当我的朋友发现了的时候， 他以为我已经死了。

When I got to hospital, the doctors thought I was going to die,

当我到了医院，医生也以为 我马上就要死了，

and when I realized what was happening to me,

而当我意识到这件事情 发生在我身上的时候，

I thought that dying might have been ...

我觉得我死了可能是...

might have been the best outcome.

最好的结果。

And lying in intensive care,

我在重症监护室

facing the prospect of being blind and paralyzed,

同时面对着失明和瘫痪的现实时，

high on morphine, I was trying to make sense of what was going on.

在高强度吗啡的作用下， 我尝试弄清楚到底发生了什么。

And one night, lying flat on my back,

有一天晚上，我平躺在床上，

I felt for my phone to write a blog,

突然想用我的手机写博客，

trying to explain how I should respond.

去尝试解释我应该 怎样对这件事做出反应。

It was called "Optimist, Realist or Something Else?"

那篇博客的名字叫： 《乐观主义者，现实主义者还是另寻方法》

and it drew on the experiences of Admiral Stockdale,

博客描写了詹姆斯·斯托克戴尔的经历，

who was a POW in the Vietnam war.

他是一名越南战俘，

He was incarcerated, tortured, for over seven years.

在战争中持续被囚禁折磨了七年多。

His circumstances were bleak, but he survived.

他在极端恶劣的环境中活了下来。

The ones who didn't survive were the optimists.

那些没有活下来的人是乐观主义者。

They said, "We'll be out by Christmas,"

他们说：“ 我们会在 圣诞节的时候逃出来的。”

and Christmas would come and Christmas would go,

但是圣诞节很快就过去了，

and then it would be Christmas again,

然后又到了圣诞节，

and when they didn't get out, they became disappointed, demoralized

但是他们并没有逃出去， 这使他们意志消沉，

and many of them died in their cells.

大多数人死在了牢房里。

Stockdale was a realist.

斯托克戴尔是一名现实主义者。

He was inspired by the stoic philosophers,

他被斯多葛派学者所启发,

and he confronted the brutal facts of his circumstances

所以尽管面对着残酷的现实，

while maintaining a faith that he would prevail in the end.

他始终坚信自己最后会成功逃出。

And in that blog, I was trying to apply his thinking as a realist

在那篇博客当中，我尝试 把他作为现实主义者的想法

to my increasingly bleak circumstances.

应用到我日益暗淡的状况。

During the many months of heart infections and kidney infections

在跌落后与心脏感染和 肾脏感染战斗的时期，

after my fall, at the very edge of survival,

在生死线上挣扎的那几个月中，

Simone and I faced the fundamental question:

西蒙娜和我都面对着 同样的一个基本问题：

How do you resolve the tension between acceptance and hope?

你应该怎样化解接受现实 与拥抱希望之间的矛盾？

And it's that that we want to explore with you now.

我们今天想要跟你们一起寻找答案。

SG: After I got the call, I caught the first flight to England

西蒙娜：当我接到电话后， 我搭了去英国的第一班飞机，

and arrived into the brightly lit intensive care ward,

赶到了灯火通明的重症监护病房，

where Mark was lying naked, just under a sheet,

马克赤身裸体的躺在那里， 身上仅仅盖了一张床单，

connected to machines that were monitoring if he would live.

他的身体连接着检测 他生命体征的仪器。

I said, "I'm here, Mark."

我对他说：“我来了，马克。”

And he cried tears he seemed to have saved just for me.

于是他哭了出来， 似乎他的泪水是专门为我保留的。

I wanted to gather him in my arms, but I couldn't move him,

我想要把他抱入我的怀中， 但是我不能移动他，

and so I kissed him the way you kiss a newborn baby,

所以我亲了他，就像是 在亲吻一名刚出生的婴儿，

terrified of their fragility.

因为生命的脆弱而小心翼翼。

Later that afternoon, when the bad news had been laid out for us --

那天下午晚些的时候， 有坏消息传来——

fractured skull, bleeds on his brain, a possible torn aorta

马克的头骨的裂缝，伴有脑出血， 主动脉有可能随时会被撕裂，

and a spine broken in two places, no movement or feeling below his waist --

两处受伤的脊椎导致了 他腰部以下失去了知觉——

Mark said to me, "Come here.

马克对我说：“过来听我讲。

You need to get yourself as far away from this as possible."

你需要离这件事越远越好。”

As I tried to process what he was saying,

当我在尝试理解他的话时，

I was thinking, "What the hell is wrong with you?"

我在想：“你到底在想什么？”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

"We can't do this now."

“我们现在居然在讨论这个话题！”

So I asked him, "Are you breaking up with me?"

所以我问他：“你这是在跟我分手吗？”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

And he said, "Look, you signed up for the blindness, but not this."

他说：“听着，你遇见我的时候对我的失明 做好了心理准备，而这件事纯属意外。”

And I answered, "We don't even know what this is,

我接着回答他： “我们都还不知道‘这个’是什么，

but what I do know is what I can't handle right now

但是我知道我现在无法承受

is a breakup while someone I love is in intensive care."

我心爱的人在重症病房里跟我分手。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

So I called on my negotiation skills and suggested we make a deal.

所以我运用我的谈判技巧建议， 我们应该达成一个协议。

I said, "I will stay with you as long as you need me,

我说：“我永远会在 你需要我的时候陪着你，

as long as your back needs me.

只要你的脊椎还没有恢复。

And when you no longer need me, then we talk about our relationship."

当你不再需要我了， 到时候我们再谈我们的关系。”

Like a contract with the possibility to renew in six months.

就像一份 6 个月后可以续签的合同。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

He agreed and I stayed.

他同意了，我便留在了他身边。

In fact, I refused to go home even to pack a bag, I slept by his bed,

我甚至没有回家打包个人用品， 就直接睡在他的床边，

when he could eat, I made all his food,

当他可以进食了，我做了他每一顿饭，

and we cried, one or other or both of us together, every day.

我们每一天，不是他就是 我，或者两个人一起哭。

I made all the complicated decisions with the doctors,

我与医生做了所有复杂的决定，

I climbed right into that raging river over rapids that was sweeping Mark along.

我一头扎进那条正在 淹没马克的汹涌的河流。

And at the first bend in that river, Mark's surgeon told us

在河流的第一个拐弯， 马克的外科医生告诉我们，

what movement and feeling he doesn't get back in the first 12 weeks,

在前 12 周中无法恢复的动作和感觉，

he's unlikely to get back at all.

以后也不可能恢复了。

So, sitting by his bed, I began to research why,

听到之后，我坐在他的床旁边， 开始研究这是为什么

after this period they call spinal shock,

这 12 周之后的时期 被他们称为脊髓休克，

there's no recovery, there's no therapy, there's no cure, there's no hope.

不会恢复，不会有治疗方案， 无法治愈，没有希望。

And the internet became this portal to a magical other world.

那时，网络对于我来说 就是通往魔法世界的大门。

I emailed scientists,

我给很多科学家发了电子邮件，

and they broke through paywalls

他们突破了付费墙，

and sent me their medical journal and science journal articles directly.

直接给我发了他们的 医学期刊和科学期刊文章。

I read everything that "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve had achieved,

我读了所有关于超人演员 克里斯托弗·里夫从马上摔下来之后

after a fall from a horse

获得的成就，

left him paralyzed from the neck down and ventilated.

那次事故导致他脖子以下高位截瘫， 只能靠呼吸机维持生命。

Christopher had broken this 12-week spell;

但是克里斯多夫突破了 这 12 周的枷锁，

he had regained some movement and feeling years after his accident.

并在多年之后恢复了一些行动和感知。

He dreamed of a world of empty wheelchairs.

他希望世界上没有人会需要轮椅。

And Christopher and the scientists he worked with fueled us with hope.

克里斯托弗和与他合作的 科学家们带给了我们希望。

MP: You see, spinal cord injury

马克：脊髓损伤

strikes at the very heart of what it means to be human.

摧毁了人类意义的核心。

And it had turned me from my upright, standing, running form,

它让我从直立，站立，奔跑的状态

into a seated compromise of myself.

到妥协并接受自己 只能在轮椅上度过一生的现实。

And it's not just the lack of feeling and movement.

瘫痪不只是关乎行动和感觉的缺失，

Paralysis also interferes with the body's internal systems,

还会干扰身体中维持生命的

which are designed to keep us alive.

内部系统。

Multiple infections, nerve pain, spasms, shortened life spans are common.

多处感染，神经疼痛， 痉挛，缩短寿命都很常见。

And these are the things that exhaust even the most determined

这些症状甚至能让 全世界 6000 万瘫痪患者中

of the 60 million people around the world who are paralyzed.

最有毅力的人精疲力尽。

Over 16 months in hospital,

在医院的那 16 个月，

Simone and I were presented with the expert view

西蒙娜和我得出了一个特殊的结论：

that hoping for a cure had proven to be psychologically damaging.

怀揣着着能找到解药的希望 其实是一种心理摧残。

It was like the formal medical system was canceling hope

就像是正规医疗系统 在摧毁人们的希望，

in favor of acceptance alone.

让他们只能接受现实的残酷。

But canceling hope ran contrary to everything that we believed in.

但是失去希望与 我们相信的一切是背道而驰的。

Yes, up to this point in history,

没错，从历史的角度来讲，

it had proven to be impossible to find a cure for paralysis,

治愈瘫痪已经被证明为不可能，

but history is filled with the kinds of the impossible made possible

然而历史充满了因为 人类的不断努力而把不可能

through human endeavor.

变成可能的例子。

The kind of human endeavor that took explorers to the South Pole

正是这种精神带领着 探险家在上世纪初

at the start of the last century.

进入了南极。

And the kind of human endeavor

也正是因为这样的努力，

that will take adventurers to Mars in the early part of this century.

人类才会在本世纪初成功探索火星。

So we started asking,

所以我们抚躬自问，

"Why can't that same human endeavor cure paralysis in our lifetime?"

“为什么那样的精神不能在我们的生命中 带领我们找到治愈瘫痪的方法？”

SG: Well, we really believed that it can.

西蒙娜：我们真的相信我们可以找到。

My research taught us

我的研究表明，

that we needed to remind Mark's damaged and dormant spinal cord

我们必须提醒马克 那受损和休眠的脊髓

of its upright, standing, running form,

它曾经直立，站立，奔跑的状态。

and we found San Francisco-based engineers at Ekso Bionics,

我们在 Ekso Bionics 公司 找到了在旧金山工作的工程师，

who created this robotic exoskeleton that would allow Mark to stand and walk

他们制造出的机械外骨架可以 让马克在我们都柏林的

in the lab that we started to build in Dublin.

在建实验室里站立和行走。

Mark became the first person to personally own an exo,

马克变成了世界上第一位 个人拥有机械外骨架的人类。

and since then, he and the robot have walked over one million steps.

从那时候起，他和他的 机械骨架已经行走了一百万步。

(Applause)

（掌声）

It was bit of an early celebration, because actually it wasn't enough,

对于当时来说庆祝是有点早了， 因为那还远远不够，

the robot was doing all of the work,

是机器在帮助马克行走，

so we needed to plug Mark in.

所以我们需要把马克和机器连接起来。

So we connected the San Francisco engineers

我们将旧金山的工程师介绍给了

with a true visionary in UCLA, Dr. Reggie Edgerton,

非常有远见的 UCLA 教授雷奇·埃杰顿，

the most beautiful man

出色的雷奇·埃杰顿教授

and his team's life work had resulted in a scientific breakthrough.

和他的团队用毕生的心血 带来了一项科学上的突破。

Using electrical stimulation of the spinal cord,

通过电击脊髓，

a number of subjects have been able to stand,

很多实验对象可以直立了，

and because of that, regain some movement and feeling

随后也慢慢地开始 可以重新行动和获得感知。

and most importantly,

最重要的是，

to regain some of the body's internal functions

这种方法可以让身体的 内部系统重新运作，

that are designed to keep us alive and to make that life a pleasure.

这些内部系统不仅保持着 我们的生命，还让我们能够享受生活。

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord,

我们觉得，用电刺激脊髓这种方法

we think, is the first meaningful therapy ever for paralyzed people.

是第一个对于瘫痪患者 有真正意义的治疗方法。

Now, of course, the San Francisco engineers

当然，旧金山的工程师们

and the scientists in UCLA

和 UCLA 的科学家们

knew about each other, knew about each other's work.

互相认识，了解对方的成就。

But as so often happens

但也经常会发生这种情况：

when we're busy creating groundbreaking scientific research,

当我们在一起忙于创造 突破性的科学研究时，

they hadn't quite yet got together.

他们还没有真正的合作过。

That seemed to be our job now.

在当时来看，将他们联系起来 成了我们的工作。

So we created our first collaboration,

所以这就有了我们第一次合作，

and the moment when we combined

当我们在

the electrical stimulation of Mark's spinal cord,

马克用机械骨骼行走的时候

as he walked in his robotic exoskeleton,

使用电流刺激他的脊髓时，

was like that moment when Iron Man plugs the mini arc reactor into his chest

那一刻就像是钢铁侠把 电弧反应堆放在他的胸腔里时，

and suddenly he and his suit become something else altogether.

他和他的装甲成为了一体。

MP: Simone, my robot and I moved into the lab at UCLA for three months.

马克：我和我的机械骨骼，还有西蒙娜 在 UCLA 实验室里住了三个月。

And every day, Reggie and his team

每一天我用机械骨骼走路时，

put electrodes onto the skin on my lower back,

雷奇和他的团队都会把电极

pushed electricity into my spinal cord to excite my nervous system,

放在我背部的皮肤上， 将电流推入我的脊髓，

as I walked in my exo.

从而刺激我的神经系统。

And for the first time since I was paralyzed,

我从瘫痪以来第一次

I could feel my legs underneath me.

感觉到了我的下半身。

Not normally --

平时我是感觉不到的——

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）

It wasn't a normal feeling, but with the stimulator turned on,

那不是一种普通的感觉： 随着刺激的启动，

upright in my exo, my legs felt substantial.

我的机械骨骼直立了起来， 我的腿开始有了知觉。

I could feel the meat of my muscles on the bones of my legs,

我可以感受到腿骨上的肌肉组织。

and as I walked, because of the stimulation,

因为电流刺激，当我走路时，

I was able to voluntarily move my paralyzed legs.

我可以自主地移动我瘫痪的腿。

And as I did more, the robot intelligently did less.

而随着我的动作越多，机械骨骼 会智能地减少它的协助。

My heart rate got a normal running, training zone

我的心跳上升到了 普通跑步和训练的速度，

of 140 to 160 beats per minute,

每分钟 140 到 160 下，

and my muscles, which had almost entirely disappeared,

而我几乎消失了的肌肉

started to come back.

重新出现了。

And during some standard testing throughout the process,

在实验过程中，我需要平躺着

flat on my back,

做一些基本的测试，

twelve weeks, six months and three whole years

在我从窗户摔下来导致瘫痪的

after I fell out that window and became paralyzed,

十二周，六个月，三年之后，

the scientists turned the stimulator on

科学家把刺激仪打开，

and I pulled my knee to my chest.

我成功的把我的膝盖抬到了胸前。

(Video) Man: OK, start, go, go, go, go, go.

（视频）男：好的，开始， 加油，加油，加油。

Good, good, good.

很好，很好，很好。

SG: Yeah, yeah, go on, Mark, go on, go, go, go, go, go, wow!

西蒙娜：对，就是这样，很好， 马克，加油，加油，加油，哇！

(Applause)

（掌声）

(Laughter)

（笑声）

SG: Well done!

西蒙娜：干得漂亮。

(Applause)

（掌声）

MP: Do you know, this week, I've been saying to Simone,

马克：你们要知道， 这周我一直在跟西蒙娜说，

if we could forget about the paralysis,

如果不提瘫痪这回事儿，

you know, the last few years have been incredibly exciting.

那么这过去几年可以说 是非常的令人激动。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Now, the problem is, we can't quite forget about the paralysis just yet.

但是现在的问题是， 我们暂时还没法忘掉瘫痪这件事。

And clearly, we're not finished,

很明显，我们还没有完成研究，

because when we left that pilot study and went back to Dublin,

因为当我们暂停了 初步研究回到都柏林的时候，

I rolled home in my wheelchair

我在家里，坐在我的轮椅上，

and I'm still paralyzed and I'm still blind

我还是瘫痪的，我还是失明的，

and we're primarily focusing on the paralysis at the moment,

虽然我们主要集中于瘫痪的研究，

but being at this conference,

但是如果在场的各位

we're kind of interested if anyone does have a cure for blindness,

有谁对治愈失明有兴趣，

we'll take that as well.

请与我们联系。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

(Applause)

（掌声）

But if you remember the blog that I mentioned,

如果你们还记得 我之前提到的那篇博客，

it posed a question of how we should respond,

其中包含了我们该如何回答

optimist, realist or something else?

当一位乐观主义者， 现实主义者，还是另寻方法的问题。

And I think we have come to understand that the optimists rely on hope alone

到现在为止，我认为我们已经意识到， 乐观主义者只依赖于希望，

and they risk being disappointed and demoralized.

即使有可能会失望或者意志消沉。

The realists, on the other hand,

而现实主义者们

they accept the brutal facts and they keep hope alive, as well.

不仅接受了残酷的现实， 也不会浇灭希望的火苗。

The realists have managed to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope

他们可以很好地平衡 接受现实和拥抱希望，

by running them in parallel.

从而化解二者之间的矛盾。

And that's what Simone and I have been trying to do

这就是我和西蒙娜在过去几年

over the last number of years.

一直在努力的事情。

Look, I accept the wheelchair --

我接受了我坐在轮椅上的事实——

I mean, it's almost impossible not to.

虽然说也不得不接受。

And we're sad, sometimes, for what we've lost.

我们有时会哀痛我们失去的一切。

I accept that I, and other wheelchair users, can and do live fulfilling lives,

但是我相信我和其他轮椅使用者 都可以，并且做到过上充实的生活，

despite the nerve pain and the spasms and the infections

即使我们需要忍受神经疼痛，痉挛

and the shortened life spans.

和寿命的缩短。

And I accept that it is way more difficult

我也了解对于高位截瘫的患者来说，

for people who are paralyzed from the neck down.

生活会更困难。

For those who rely on ventilators to breathe,

对那些依靠着呼吸机维持生命的人

and for those who don't have access to adequate, free health care.

和那些无法接受足够且免费的 医疗服务的人来说也是如此。

So, that is why we also hope for another life.

所以这就是为什么 我们期盼着这样一个世界。

A life where we have created a cure through collaboration.

在那个世界里，我们 通过合作研究出了解药，

A cure that we are actively working to release from university labs

并且把它从实验室里散播到

around the world

全世界，

and share with everyone who needs it.

提供给每个需要它的人。

SG: I met Mark when he was just blind.

西蒙娜：当我初遇到马克时， 他刚刚失去视力。

He asked me to teach him to dance, and I did.

他请我教他跳舞，我照做了。

One night, after dance classes,

一天晚上，下了舞蹈课之后，

I turned to say goodnight to him at his front door,

我在他房间门口跟他

and to his gorgeous guide dog, Larry.

和他漂亮的导盲犬拉瑞说了晚安。

I realized, that in switching all the lights off in the apartment

我知道，当我在离开之前

before I left,

关掉了公寓内所有的灯，

that I was leaving him in the dark.

我就把他一个人留在了黑暗中。

I burst into uncontrollable tears and tried to hide it, but he knew.

我尝试掩盖自己难以抑制的眼泪， 但是他还是感觉到了。

And he hugged me and said,

他抱着我说，

"Ah, poor Simone.

"可怜的西蒙娜，

You're back in 1998, when I went blind.

你又回到了我刚失明的 1998 年。

Don't worry, it turns out OK in the end."

别担心，一切都会好的。”

Acceptance is knowing that grief is a raging river.

接受现实，就是明知道 悲伤是一条汹涌的河流，

And you have to get into it.

但还是要奋不顾身的冲进去。

Because when you do, it carries you to the next place.

因为它会承载着你去下一个地方，

It eventually takes you to open land,

最后到达一片开放的区域，

somewhere where it will turn out OK in the end.

在那里，一切都会好起来。

And it truly has been a love story,

这一切都像是一场爱情故事，

an expansive, abundant, deeply satisfying kind of love

对每一个人和所有 参与这项研究的人来说，

for our fellow humans and everyone in this act of creation.

都是一种开放，深沉， 充斥着满足的爱。

Science is love.

科学亦是爱。

Everyone we've met in this field

我们在这个领域认识的每一个人，

just wants to get their work from the bench and into people's lives.

都想让自己的工作走出实验室， 真正为人们的生活提供帮助，

And it's our job to help them to do that.

而我们的职责就是 帮助他们实现这个愿望。

Because when we do, we and everyone with us

因为当我们行动起来， 我们和跟我们一起参与

in this act of creation

这项研究的人

will be able to say,

会说，

"We did it.

“我们做到了，

And then we danced."

于是我们共舞。”

(Video) (Music)

（视频）（音乐）

SG: Thank you.

西蒙娜：谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）

MP: Thank you.

马克：谢谢大家。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）