Never, ever give up | Diana Nyad

譯者: Bighead Ge 審譯者: NAN-KUN WU

It's the fifth time I stand on this shore,

這是我第五次站在這個海岸,

the Cuban shore,

古巴海岸邊,

looking out at that distant horizon,

眺望著那遙遠的地平線,

believing, again,

又一次地相信

that I'm going to make it all the way

我將會成功地

跨過那一望無際,

across that vast, dangerous wilderness of an ocean.

波濤洶湧的海洋。

Not only have I tried four times,

不是只有我嘗試了四次,

but the greatest swimmers in the world have been trying since 1950,

世界上其他偉大的游泳健將

自從1950年以來就開始嘗試了,

and it's still never been done.

卻沒有人成功過。

The team is proud of our four attempts.

我們對於前四次所 付出的努力感到十分驕傲。

It's an expedition of some 30 people.

這探險隊大概有30人。

Bonnie is my best friend and head handler,

邦妮是我最要好的朋友, 同時也是我的總教練。

who somehow summons will,

她是一個能夠喚醒我意志力的人。

當我在深海中度過無數個日夜,

that last drop of will within me, when I think it's gone,

after many, many hours and days out there.

瀕臨放棄的瞬間, 她能喚起我僅存的意志力。

The shark experts are the best in the world --

我們有世界頂端的鯊魚專家...

large predators below.

潛藏深海的大型狩獵者。

The box jellyfish, the deadliest venom in all of the ocean,

有箱型水母, 海洋中最致命的毒液,

也在這水裡。

is in these waters,

我在前一次的探險 差一點因為牠們

and I have come close to dying from them on a previous attempt.

而喪失了性命。

這些情況,

The conditions themselves,

besides the sheer distance of over 100 miles in the open ocean --

除了要在廣闊的海洋中

游行超過100哩,

the currents and whirling eddies and the Gulf Stream itself,

海流、漩渦

以及世界上最難預測的

the most unpredictable of all of the planet Earth.

墨西哥灣暖流

And by the way -- it's amusing to me

話說到這裡, 我都被逗笑了,

that journalists and people, before these attempts, often ask me,

在這幾次嘗試前,

記者和其他人常常問我,

"Well, are you going to go with any boats or any people or anything?"

嗯...你會攜帶任何船、

任何人或任何東西嗎?

(Laughter)

And I'm thinking, what are they imagining?

我心想, 他們到底在幻想些什麼啊?

That I'll just sort of do some celestial navigation --

幻想我會觀測天體來判斷座標,

(Laughter)

And carry a bowie knife in my mouth,

嘴裡咬著一把長獵刀,

and I'll hunt fish and skin them alive and eat them,

然後捕魚, 活生生地 剝了牠們的皮再吃掉。

and maybe drag a desalinization plant behind me for fresh water.

或許為了獲取淨水,

背後還揹著一台海水淨化設備?

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Yes, I have a team.

是的, 我有帶著一個團隊。（笑聲）

(Laughter)

裡面個個都是專家, 個個成員都英勇,

And the team is expert,

and the team is courageous,

and brimming with innovation and scientific discovery,

也都具有創新思維

和科學探索的能力,

as is true of any major expedition on the planet.

就和任何大型遠征隊一樣。

我們已經踏上了旅途。

And we've been on a journey.

And the debate has raged, hasn't it,

大家不是都在激烈爭論 生命的意義嗎?

since the Greeks,

自古以來,

of isn't it what it's all about?

又何嘗不是這麼一回事?

Isn't life about the journey, not really the destination?

生命追求的不就是歷經的過程,

而不是抵達的終點?

And here we've been on this journey,

我們已經踏上旅途了。

說實在的, 這一路上十分刺激。

and the truth is, it's been thrilling.

We haven't reached that other shore,

我們還沒登上另一端的岸上,

但我們的驕傲依舊

and still, our sense of pride and commitment,

unwavering commitment.

承諾不移

當我60歲時, 我持續懷著這個夢想

When I turned 60, the dream was still alive

from having tried this in my 20s -- dreamed it and imagined it.

這個從我20幾歲開始的夢想

不斷嘗試, 不斷幻想

至今世上最著名的水域

The most famous body of water on the Earth today, I imagine,

我想, 應該是古巴到佛羅里達這塊。

Cuba to Florida.

And it was deep. It was deep in my soul.

它非常深, 彷彿直達靈魂深處。

我在60歲時,

When I turned 60,

it wasn't so much about the athletic accomplishment,

並不是所謂的運動生涯成就,

或者"我想成為第一名"的自負心態,

it wasn't the ego of "I want to be the first."

That's always there and it's undeniable.

無可否認地,那個自我一直都在

但它更深, 是關於生命還剩下多少時間？

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?

我們承認吧, 我們都在單行道上,不是嗎？

那我們應該怎麼做呢？

And what are we going to do?

What are we going to do as we go forward, to have no regrets looking back?

我們應該做些什麼 才能在前進的路上

回頭看時沒有遺憾？

過去這一年訓練的時候,

And all this past year in training,

I had that Teddy Roosevelt quote

希歐多爾•羅斯福的一句話

to paraphrase it, floating around in my brain.

一直在我的腦海回蕩,

It says, "You go ahead.

大致是：”你儘管,

You go ahead and sit back in your comfortable chair

你儘管坐在你那舒服的椅子上,

and you be the critic, you be the observer,

你做個評論家,你做個觀察員,

while the brave one gets in the ring and engages

同時那個勇敢的人 走上拳擊台開始比賽,

and gets bloody and gets dirty and fails over and over and over again,

血流了下來,有點髒,他倒了下去,

一次又一次,

but yet isn't afraid and isn't timid and lives life in a bold way."

但是他不害怕不膽怯,

用一種勇敢的方式去生活。”

And so of course I want to make it across.

所以當然我想要跨越這一灣水。

It is the goal, and I should be so shallow to say that this year,

這是目標,我也坦率地跟大家說

今年,目的地嘗到的滋味

the destination was even sweeter than the journey.

比旅途更甜

(Laughter)

（笑聲）（掌聲）

(Applause)

But the journey itself was worthwhile taking.

但旅途本身是值得的。

And at this point, by this summer,

這個時候,今年夏天,

everybody -- scientists, sports scientists,

每個人——科學家、 運動科學家、

耐力專家、神經專家,

endurance experts, neurologists,

my own team, Bonnie --

我自己的團隊,邦妮 ——

said it's impossible.

都說這是不可能的。

It just simply can't be done, and Bonnie said to me,

這是肯定做不到的, 這時邦妮對我說,

"但是如果你真的要踏上這個旅途,

"But if you're going to take the journey,

我會從頭到尾看著你,

I'm going to see you through to the end of it,

所以我會在的。“

so I'll be there."

And now we're there.

而我們就去了。

As we're looking out, kind of a surreal moment

啟程之前,我們一眼望去, 感覺一切都是那麼地不真實,

在劃出去的前一刻

before the first stroke,

standing on the rocks at Marina Hemingway,

我們站在海明威碼頭的岩石上,

the Cuban flag is flying above,

古巴旗幟在上空飄揚,

all my team is out in their boats, hands up in the air,

我的團隊在他們的船上,

手高高舉起並說著： “我們在這裡, 我們會為你加油。”

"We're here!

We're here for you!"

邦妮和我相互對望了一眼,我們說：

Bonnie and I look at each other and say,

今年,我們的口頭禪是——

this year, the mantra is -- and I've been using it in training --

我在訓練的時候也一直用它——

Find a way.

找到出路。

You have a dream

你有一個夢想,

and you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do.

你的前方有障礙,我們都一樣。

None of us ever get through this life

沒有一個人可以

without heartache,

不經歷任何心痛、

任何動盪地走完人生,

without turmoil,

and if you believe and you have faith

如果你相信,如果你有任何信仰,

你可以被打倒再重新站起來,

and you can get knocked down and get back up again

and you believe in perseverance

你相信毅力

as a great human quality,

是人類最偉大的優點,

你會找到你的出路, 邦妮抓住我的肩膀,

you find your way.

And Bonnie grabbed my shoulders,

她說：“讓我們找到去佛羅里達的路吧。”

and she said, "Let's find our way to Florida."

And we started, and for the next 53 hours,

接著我們出發了,接下來的53個小時

it was an intense, unforgettable life experience.

給我們帶來了刺激的、 令人難忘的人生經歷。

The highs were high, the awe --

高處很高,還有敬畏,

I'm not a religious person, but I'll tell you,

我不是一個信教的人,但是我要告訴你的是,

身處在墨西哥灣流的湛藍之中,

to be in the azure blue of the Gulf Stream

as if, as you're breathing,

你一邊呼吸,

you're looking down miles and miles and miles,

一邊看著前方無盡的一片,

to feel the majesty of this blue planet we live on --

感受到我們生活在的 這個藍色星球的雄偉,

真的讓人歎為觀止。

it's awe-inspiring.

我有一個大概85首歌的播放清單,

I have a playlist of about 85 songs,

and especially in the middle of the night ...

特別是在半夜的時候,

那個晚上,因為我們沒有燈光——

That night, because we use no lights -- lights attract jellyfish,

燈光會引來水母、鯊魚,

lights attract sharks,

燈光會引來那些鯊魚喜歡的餌料魚,

lights attract baitfish that attract sharks,

so we go in the pitch black of the night.

所以我們就在一片漆黑的黑夜中行進。

You've never seen black this black.

你從來沒有見過這種黑暗。

You can't see the front of your hand,

你看不見自己眼前的手,

and the people on the boat, Bonnie and my team on the boat --

和船上的人,

邦妮的我的團隊,

they just hear the slapping of the arms,

他們透過聽到手臂拍打的聲音,

and they know where I am,

才知道我在哪裡,

because there's no visual at all.

因為用肉眼是看不見的。

And I'm out there kind of tripping out on my little playlist.

而我就在那兒沉浸在

我的音樂裡

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

I've got tight rubber caps, I don't hear a thing.

我戴著一個很緊的橡膠帽,

所以我什麼也聽不見。

I've got goggles and I'm turning my head 50 times a minute,

我戴著泳鏡, 一分鐘內轉50次頭

and I'm singing ...

而我在唱,

(Singing) Imagine there's no heaven

♪想像沒有天堂♪

(Laughter)

doo doo doo doo doo

♪doo doo doo doo doo♪

It's easy if you try

♪這不難,如果你嘗試 ♪

doo doo doo doo doo

♪doo doo doo doo doo♪

And I can sing that song a thousand times in a row.

這個歌我可以連續唱上一千遍。

（笑聲）

(Laughter)

Now there's a talent unto itself.

我覺得這本身也是一種才能。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）（掌聲）

(Applause)

And each time I get done with,

每一次到結尾的時候,

(Singing) Oh, you may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one

♪ 你可能說我是一個夢想家,但我不是唯一的 ♪

222.

222。

(Singing) Imagine there's no heaven

♪想像沒有天堂♪

(Laughter)

當我唱完一千遍的時候,

And when I get through the end

of a thousand of John Lennon's "Imagine,"

約翰藍儂的《想像》

I have swum nine hours and 45 minutes ...

我已經游了9個小時45分鐘,

exactly.

絲毫不差。

(Laughter)

And then there are the crises.

當然也有危機出現時候,當然有。

Of course there are.

And the vomiting starts, the seawater -- you're not well.

我開始嘔吐,

還有海水,你感覺不舒服,

You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection.

你戴著高效保護的水母面具。

It's difficult to swim in.

戴著它更難游泳

It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth,

導致你嘴巴裡面出現磨損,

可是你不會再被水母觸角螫到

but the tentacles can't get you.

And the hypothermia sets in.

接著身體出現低溫。

The water's 85 degrees, and yet you're losing weight

水溫是85華氏度（約29攝氏度）, 你的體重開始減輕

and using calories.

和消耗熱量,當你慢慢靠近

And as you come over toward the side of the boat --

船隻邊緣,不能觸碰,

not allowed to touch it, not allowed to get out,

不能放棄,

but Bonnie and her team hand me nutrition

但是邦妮和團隊遞給我營養物質,

並問我怎麼樣,是否一切都好,

and ask me how I'm doing, am I all right.

I am seeing the Taj Mahal --

而我卻看到了泰姬陵。

(Laughter)

Over here.

I'm in a very different state --

我已經進入了一個非常不同的境界,

(Laughter)

And I'm thinking, "Wow!

我在想,哇,我從來沒有想過

I never thought I'd be running into the Taj Mahal out here.

我會在這裡看到泰姬陵。

It's gorgeous!

簡直太美了。

I mean, how long did it take them to build that?

這,他們得用了多長時間才造出來啊？

簡直,簡直——噢唔（笑聲）

It's just ...

So, uh -- wooo -- you know?

(Laughter)

We kind of have a cardinal rule

我們有一個基本規則,

that I'm never told how far it is, because we don't know how far it is.

就是沒有人會告訴我已經遊了多遠,

因為我們不知道。

從這裡到那裡會發生什麼？

What's going to happen to you between this point and that point?

從這裡到那裡會發生什麼？

天氣、洋流會怎麼樣？

What's going to happen to the weather and the currents

還有,上帝保佑,

and, God forbid, you're stung,

when you don't think you could be stung in all this armor.

當你以為在這身裝置下不會很安全, 可是你就是被螫了,

邦妮做了一個決定,

Bonnie made a decision coming into that third morning

在第三個早上

that I was suffering,

那時我很痛苦,

and I was hanging on by a thread.

我的生命懸在一線之間,

And she said, "Come here,"

她說："過來,"

and I came close to the boat, and she said,

我游到船邊,她說,

"你看,你看那邊,"

"Look, look out there."

我看到了燈光,因為白天要比晚上好,

And I saw light,

because the day is easier than the night,

我以為我們已經進入白天了,

and I thought we were coming into day.

我看到一束白光,

I saw a stream of white light along the horizon,

沿著地平線

and I said, "It's going to be morning soon."

我說：”白天很快就到了。“

她說："不,那是西礁島的燈光。"

And she said, "No, those are the lights of Key West."

It was 15 more hours,

還需要15個小時,

which for most swimmers would be a long time.

這對大部分游泳的人 都是一段很長的時間。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）（掌聲）

(Applause)

You have no idea how many 15-hour training swims I had done.

你不知道我經歷過多少 15個小時的游泳訓練。

So here we go, and I somehow, without a decision,

所以我們又繼續往前, 而我不知道怎麼的,沒有任何決定,

went into no counting of strokes

進入了不數劃了多少下,

and no singing

不唱歌,不引用斯蒂芬•霍金

and no quoting Stephen Hawking on the parameters of the universe.

及其宇宙參數,

I just went into thinking about this dream, and why and how.

我只是開始想我的這個夢想,

為什麼, 如何實現。

我說過,我60歲的時候,

As I said, when I turned 60,

it wasn't about that concrete "Can you do it?"

它不再是關於那個具體的 “你是否可以做到”,

That's the everyday machinations.

那是每天的策劃,

That's the discipline, and it's the preparation,

那是自我紀律,事前準備,

而這其中有自豪。

and there's a pride in that.

But I decided to think, as I went along,

但是隨著前進,我決定開始思考

about -- you know, the phrase usually is, "reaching for the stars."

通常人們是說,追逐星星,

And in my case, it's reaching for the horizon.

而我的情況,則是追逐地平線。

And when you reach for the horizon,

而當你到達地平線的時候,

as I've proven, you may not get there.

當然你也可能到達不了,

But what a tremendous build of character and spirit

但是你建立了多麼驚人的

人類特質和精神

that you lay down;

what a foundation you lay down in reaching for those horizons.

在你追逐地平線的時候,

你搭下了堅實的地基。

And now, the shore is coming.

現在慢慢接近海岸了,

And there's just a little part of me that's sad.

我內心有一小部分開始難過。

The epic journey is going to be over.

這個史詩般的旅途就要結束了。

So many people come up to me now and say,

現在很多人走上前問我,“

"What's next?"

"接下來你會做什麼？我們好激動！

(Laughter)

"We love that!"

(Laughter)

那個電腦上的小跟蹤器？

"That little tracker on the computer?

When are you going to do the next one?

你什麼時候會進行下一次冒險？ 我們迫不及待地想看你的下一次冒險。"

We can't wait to follow the next one."

他們只花了53個小時在那裡,

Well, they were just there for 53 hours,

and I was there for years.

而我花了數年的時間。

And so there won't be another epic journey in the ocean.

所以不會再有這樣的海上旅途了。

But the point is, and the point was,

但是重點是,

that every day of our lives is epic.

我們生活的每一天都是壯麗的,

And I'll tell you, when I walked up onto that beach,

我要告訴你,當我走上那片海灘的時候,

staggered up onto that beach ...

踉蹌著走上那片海灘,

I had so many times, in a very puffed-up ego way,

我曾經很多次

自命不凡地

rehearsed what I would say ...

想像過我會在海灘上說什麼。

(Laughter)

on the beach.

當邦妮以為

When Bonnie thought the back of my throat was swelling up,

我的喉部腫了,

she brought the medical team over to our boat

她把醫療團隊帶到了我們的船上,

to say, "She's really beginning to have trouble breathing;

告訴他們

我呼吸有困難.

another 12, 24 hours in the saltwater ..." --

在鹽水裡待了12、14個小時後,

the whole thing -- I just thought, in my hallucinatory moment,

整件事情,我以為

在我幻想著的時候, 我到了氣管切開術。

that I heard the word "tracheotomy."

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

邦妮對醫生說：

Bonnie said to the doctor, "I'm not worried about her not breathing.

“我不擔心她不能呼吸,

如果她到達海岸的時候不能說話,

If she can't talk when she gets to the shore,

她會火冒三丈的。”

she's going to be pissed off."

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

But the truth is, all those orations that I had practiced,

但事實是,那些我

練習了無數次的演說,

just to get myself through some training swims as motivation --

只為了激勵自己訓練的演說,

it wasn't like that.

其實不是那樣的。

It was a very real moment,

那是真實的一刻,

with that crowd, with my team.

有人群,有我的團隊。

We did it. I didn't do it. We did it.

我們做到了,不是我一個人,我們做到了。

And we'll never forget it. It'll always be part of us.

我們永遠不會忘記, 這會永遠是我們的一部分。

The three things I did sort of blurt out when we got there, was first:

當我們到達的時候, 我脫口而出的說了三件事,

第一就是："永遠、永遠不要放棄。"

Never, ever give up.

I live it.

我經歷過了。蘇格拉底的 那句話今天怎麼說來著？

What's the phrase from today from Socrates?

Audience: To be is to do.

想成為什麼就要行動

Diana Nyad: To be is to do.

So I don't stand up and say, "Don't ever give up."

所以我是只站起來說永遠不要放棄。

I didn't give up.

我沒有放棄,在這些話語背後是有行動的。

There was action behind these words.

The second is:

第二,“你可以在任何年紀追求你的夢想,

You can chase your dreams at any age; you're never too old.

你永遠不會太老。”

Sixty-four; a thing no one, at any age, any gender, could ever do

64歲,沒有人在這個年紀,不管男女,

可以做,做到了,

has done it.

我沒有絲毫懷疑

And there's no doubt in my mind

今天我正處於我生命的頂峰。

that I am at the prime of my life today.

(Applause)

（掌聲）

Yeah.

是的。

(Applause)

Thank you.

謝謝。

我在那個海灘上說的第三個東西是：

And the third thing I said on that beach was,

it looks like the most solitary endeavor in the world,

"它看起來像世界上最孤獨的努力,

and in many ways, of course, it is.

在許多方面,確實如此。

但在其他方面,最重要的方面,

And in other ways, and the most important ways,

it's a team.

這是一個團隊,如果你認為我很厲害,

And if you think I'm a badass, you want to meet Bonnie.

你應該見見邦妮。"

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

Bonnie, where are you?

邦妮,你在哪裡？

Where are you?

你在哪裡？

There's Bonnie Stoll.

邦妮•斯托爾在那兒。（掌聲）

(Applause)

我的夥伴。

My buddy.

(Applause)

The Henry David Thoreau quote goes,

亨利•大衛•梭羅有句名言,

"When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get

當你實現你的夢想的時候, 關鍵並不是你得到了什麼,

而是在最求的過程中 你變成了什麼樣的人。

as who you have become in achieving them."

And yeah, I stand before you now.

是的,現在我站在你們面前,

In the three months since that swim ended,

那場游泳結束已經三個月了,

I've sat down with Oprah,

我和奧普拉談過,

and I've been in President Obama's Oval Office;

我去過奧巴馬總統的橢圓形辦公室。

I've been invited to speak in front of esteemed groups

我被受邀給像你們這樣 受人尊敬的人群演講。

such as yourselves;

我簽了一個出書的合同。

I've signed a wonderful major book contract.

All of that's great, and I don't denigrate it.

這些都很好,我不會貶低它。

I'm proud of it all, but the truth is,

我很自豪這一切,但事實是,

我可以挺起腰杆走路,因為我是那勇敢、

I'm walking around tall

because I am that bold, fearless person, and I will be, every day,

無畏的人,而我接下來每一天也都會是,

until it's time for these days to be done.

直到再無時間可剩。

Thank you very much and enjoy the conference.

謝謝大家,享受會議！

Thank you. Thank you!

謝謝。謝謝。（掌聲）

(Applause)

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you! Thank you.

謝謝。謝謝。

謝謝。

(Applause)

找出你的路 ！（掌聲）

Find a way!

(Applause)