真的很陡 It's really steep.
－大粉丝，大粉丝 －可以拍张相吗？ - Huge fan, huge fan. - Would you like to have your photo taken?
我可以拍张相吗？ Can I have your picture?
来吧！大家，要拍照吗？ Come on, you guys. Want to have your picture?
－你到了！ －你来了真好 - Here you go. - Pleased to have you here.
笑一个 Cheesy grin.
微笑 Smile.
再笑一个 Another cheesy grin.
所有伟大的科学家和他们其中的一个－克卜勒和... All the great scientists and this is one of 'em - Kepler and...
伽利略、牛顿－我们现场就有一个，真棒！惊讶！ Galileo, Newton - we've got one right here. It's fantastic. Amazing!
我的名字叫史帝芬?霍金 My name is Stephen Hawking.
在过去的五十年之中，我已经游遍全世界 For the past 50 years, I have travelled the world
研究及解说有关时间、空间 studying and lecturing about time and space
和支配宇宙的定律 and the laws that govern the universe.
－海！史帝芬，摔断腿 －不要这样说！ - Hey, Stephen, break a leg. - Don't say that!
我要照顾他 I'll have to look after him.
这部影片用我自已的想法来介绍 This film is a personal journey through my life
我个人的一生经历 told in my own words.
跟著我，让我介绍我现在的生活和工作... Come with me and I will show you how I live and work today...
...和我怎麽变成现在这个样子的故事 ...and tell you the story of how I became who I am.
欢迎来到我的世界 Welcome to my world.
所以你也要在自助餐厅用午餐？ So are you going to take your lunch in the cafeteria?
- 来，给你 －是 - It's up to you. - Yes.
我只是要给朱迪思打通电话... I just have to give Judith a call...
我想如果他是在家 I think it would kill him
被护士看顾的话，他就死定了 if he was in a home, being cared for by nurses.
我想这就会把他终结掉 I think that would be the end for him.
他喜欢有能力作选择，选他想要过的生活， He likes to be able to choose what he wants to do with his life,
他喜欢飞行的危险刺激，他想要上太空 he loves the danger of flying, he wants to go into space
他还到过潜艇里！ and he's been in submarines!
他是最疯狂的人 He's just the most craziest man.
而且一身是胆 He's got a lot of guts in him.
只要通过这里，就是看护们的房间 Just through here is the nurses' room.
所以一旦需要医疗救护，我们只要抓起电话就拨999就行了 So if anything medical happens, we'll just grab a phone, phone 999,
但我们实际上能做的并不多 but there is not much we can actually do
因为史帝芬使用Nippy才能呼吸 because Stephen is on a Nippy, which he'll breathe on.
如果失效，我们能做的只有一件事，就是 If that fails, the only other thing we could do and we do have -
马上使用氧气筒，供氧气给他 we have oxygen cylinders and we can give him oxygen,
但如果在全都失效的情况，我们就要让他安静的过去 but if he's in a total state then we will have to let him go.
我已经在死亡的阴影下过了 I have lived over two thirds of my life
三分之二的人生了 with the threat of death hanging over me.
因为每一天都可能是我的最后一天， Because every new day could be my last,
所以我就要把每一分钟都过得最充实 I have developed a desire to make the most of each and every minute.
虽然我已经七十一岁了， Although I'm 71 now,
我还是每天都在剑桥大学工作 I still go to work every day at Cambridge University.
等一下再来看你，购物愉快 I'll see you in a bit. Enjoy your shopping.
保持心灵活化对我是攸关生死存亡的， Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival,
就像要维持幽默感一样 as has been maintaining a sense of humour.
-早,朱迪思 -哈萝! - Morning, Judith. - Hello.
在我面试的时候， When I went to my job interview,
我想他会问我 I thought he was going to ask me
有关从事医药的经验和之前看护的经历， about my past medical history and what I've done before in care,
但他没有，他只问我会不会煮水煮蛋 but he didn't, he asked whether I could cook poached eggs!
而且...那个时候我才十九岁，我撒了谎， And... I was 19 at the time and I lied,
因为我不知道怎麽作水煮蛋，但我还是直接得到了这份差事 cos I didn't know how to cook poached eggs, but I got the job straight away.
一点也不像是在工作， It ain't like going to work any more,
就像是来拜访和探望朋友一样... it's like just gonna go and see a friend...
是呀!像家人一样 well, family.
史帝芬陪我渡过那段成长的岁月 Stephen's been there through the years of me growing up
像是，转变为成人 and, like, turning into an adult.
所以他陪我渡过我人生中最重要的阶段 So he's been there through most of the important stages of my life.
让我有过一段非常幸运的生活，这要感谢史帝芬 I've had a very privileged life, thanks to Stephen.
你喜欢有我相伴吗？ Do you enjoy my company?
可能吧！ Maybe.
你在吓我的吧，是不是？ You're horrible to me, ain't ya?
是呀！ Yes.
像你所看到的，我的病情愈来愈严重 As you can see, the gradual advance of my illness
意思就是我完全要依赖身边的这些东西 has meant that I am totally reliant on those around me.
七十一年前，生命也是那样开始的 71 years ago, life started that way too.
我在1942年出生，正好是伽利略死后三百年的日子 I was born in 1942, exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo.
我的双亲都上牛津大学， My parents were both at Oxford University,
父亲在那里学医 where my father studied medicine.
他后来擅长热带的疾病 He later specialised in tropical diseases.
一个人之所以成为那个样子， It is often said that a person's early years
小时候就可以看得出端倪 are a good indication of how they will turn out.
我的姐姐，玛丽，可能记得最清楚 Perhaps my eldest sister, Mary, remembers me best.
我记得史帝芬非常聪颖，对事情很专注 I remember Stephen was very bright, always into things.
我记得我爸帮我做了个娃娃屋， I remember my father made me a dolls' house,
史帝芬把娃娃屋塞进水管和丢进火炉里！ so Stephen put in both plumbing and lighting!
他喜欢赢 He liked to win.
凡事都想赢 He liked to win in everything.
我们学下西洋棋 We all learnt to play draughts.
我赢他一次，就西洋棋， I beat Stephen once, once at draughts,
他就立刻开始认真学下棋，我从此没再赢过他了！ and he immediately took up chess and I never beat him at that again!
小时候我花了很多时间和自己玩 Also spent a lot of time playing on my own as a boy.
对理解东西怎麽运作很感兴趣， I had a passion to understand how things worked,
从玩具火车到整个宇宙 from toy trains to the whole universe.
他花很多时间在看著天空， He would spend a lot of time looking at the sky,
看著... looking at the...
星星和对...不朽走向终点之处感到奇怪 stars and wondering where... eternity came to an end.
他没办法接受有什麽东西是 He couldn't conceive that there could be something
没有终点的 without a finish.
家庭生活总是对我和手足之间提供足够的刺激 Home life was always stimulating for me and my siblings.
我的父母都是知识份子 My mother and father were intellectuals
所以他们很自然会希望孩子们也跟他们一样 and naturally they expected their children to follow.
我的父母亲都搬进了海格-汉普斯特知识圈， Both my parents were moving in the Highgate-Hampstead intelligentsia,
那是种团体 that sort of circle.
我们总是谈论著 － We always talked -
大家所谈论的，大家所争议的 everyone talked, and everybody argued.
我们用了很多辩论的技巧，对小孩是很重要的事 We used to argue theology a lot. It's a great thing for kids
因为你不需要任何其他的事实 because you don't need any facts whatsoever.
对外人而言，霍金一家人很古怪， To outsiders, the Hawking household was considered eccentric,
但对我而言，那是个心灵持续接受挑战的地方 but, for me, it was a place where my mind was constantly challenged.
到处都是书 There were books everywhere.
两层的书架，书架... Bookshelves that were double-banked. Bookshelves that had,
上面也直挺挺立了一排书， on top of upright books,
只要在整排书中有任何空间，就会塞进其他的书 rows of other books shoehorned in wherever there was space.
一点都不像一般的房子－ It was a less conventional house -
在屋里的孩子有充分的自由 one in which the children had a great deal of freedom
我还记得 and I remember being
在午餐上的对话是相当令人瞠目结舌的 quite gob-smacked by the conversation over lunch.
在我家是不可能论及的话题－ It was about subjects which were never talked about in my house -
性、同性恋、为堕胎争论 sex, homosexuality, arguments for and against abortion
和其他很不一样的话题 and various other subjects that were quite unusual.
到了青少年阶段，父母教我 As I developed into a teenager, my parents taught me
要质疑事情、从大处著眼 to always question things and think big.
史帝芬发明－回想起来，应该是在1950年代早期－ Stephen devised - and remember, this was in the early 1950s -
不只一台，还是两台电脑， not just one, but two, computers,
从我们的涂鸭里组装起来的 which we built from scratch.
大约冰箱一半深度的大小， It was about the size of a half-depth fridge,
和冰箱的高、宽差不多 but about as tall and about as wide.
用二进位的方式处理逻辑问题－若条件为真 It solved logical problems posed in binary - if this condition is true
条件为真或条件不为真，那麽... and that condition is true or that condition instead is true, then...
而且会给你"然后"是什麽意思 and it would give you what the "then" meant.
在学校，我的同学给我爱因斯坦的绰号， At school, my classmates gave me the nickname Einstein,
即使我在上学的半路上 even though I was only ever halfway up the class.
我喜欢这样想，是个很聪明的班级 It was, I like to think, a very bright class.
大家都认为史帝芬会上牛津大学 It was always assumed that Stephen would go to Oxford.
我的双亲都上牛津，你知道的，他聪明绝顶， Both my parents had been to Oxford, you know, he was extremely bright,
这是毫无疑问的 there was never any doubt about this.
他和父亲对于要上哪读大学的意见相左 He and my father had a difference of opinion about what he should study.
父亲认为如果史帝芬去学医是一件很棒的事， Father thought it would be a good thing if Stephen did medicine,
但他心不在医 － but Stephen was not into medicine -
他本身就已经是个很厉害的医生... he'd have made the most awful doctor...
...所以他们做出了妥协 ...so they compromised.
我们同意他去拿自然科学的学位，专攻物理学 We agreed on a degree in natural sciences, specialising in physics.
当时牛津的普遍态度是非常反对用功的 The prevailing attitude at Oxford at the time was very anti-work.
他们认为你不是那种不需努力的天才... You were supposed to be brilliant without effort...
就是认命接受四年的修业学分 or to accept your limitations and get a fourth-class degree.
努力用功获取较好的班级成绩 To work hard to get a better class of degree
被贴上"灰人"的标签－ was regarded as the mark of a "grey man" -
在牛津里是最糟的称号 the worst epithet in the Oxford vocabulary.
我想我和史帝芬都被归类到， I think Steve and I fell,
我们两个都是，那种 both of us, right into that category,
不需要用功或装出用功样子的种类里， that there was no need to work or to appear to work,
史帝芬是个非常有趣的家伙 and Steve was a very funny guy.
他开得起玩笑 He was able to appreciate jokes
总是在说笑话 and tell jokes the whole time
自然流露的幽默是他与生俱来的一样 and spontaneous humour was really his forte.
划！划！ Row! Row!
划！ Row!
在牛津，我加入划艇会而且担任舵手的角色 At Oxford, I joined the Rowing Club and became a cox.
我爱上这种自由、速度 I relished in the freedom, the speed
当然，称之为运动 and, of course, calling the shots.
划艇会也让我见识到 The Rowing Club also introduced me
在牛津我最喜欢的娱乐之一... to one of my favourite pastimes at Oxford...
...舞会 ...partying.
我算过在三年里，我大约读书读了一千个小时， I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours' work
平均一天一个小时 in the three years I was there, an average of an hour a day.
我并不会以不用功为荣， I'm not proud of this lack of work,
我只是描述我在那段时期的态度， I'm just describing my attitude at the time,
那种大部分学生普遍都有的态度 which I shared with most of my fellow students.
一整年下来，大家逐渐认为史帝夫 Within the whole year, people gradually thought of Steve
是同年级里聪明的家伙， as being the brilliant guy in the year,
但他那种聪明是让人家觉得 but he was brilliant in the sense that he could
不刻意而自然流露的智慧... make off-the-cuff remarks which were deep...
...所以他绝对是智力超群的杰出人士 ...so he was definitely a stand-out person of intellect.
问题总是绕著他是不是 The question always was
该用他的智慧到他想去的任何地方 whether he would use that intellect to go anywhere.
晚安，霍金教授 Good evening, Professor Hawking.
好吧!如果把香槟欢迎酒会的数量当作 Well, if the number of champagne receptions one goes to
一个人是否成功的标准，那我还蛮成功的 is a measure of success, then it would seem that I have made it.
今晚是称作宇宙的超级电脑 Tonight, I am guest of honour
在剑桥启用典礼，我是荣誉贵宾 at the launch of a supercomputer called Cosmos, in Cambridge.
宇宙是世上最厉害的电脑之一 Cosmos is one of the most powerful computers in the world
可以让我们更能瞭解我们在整个宇宙的位置 and will enable us to better understand our place in the universe.
史帝芬可能是世上 Stephen's perhaps the world's
最有名的科学家，没有人可以否认， most famous scientist, you know, and one can't deny that it's fantastic
有他支持是件很棒的事 to have his support.
真的是英国理论宇宙学界里重要的日子 It really is a big day for theoretical cosmology in the UK.
名声这个概念对我而言是件很怪的事 The notion of fame is a curious thing to me.
在我心里，我只是有幸研究 In my mind, I am a scientist who has been lucky to work
有关基本宇宙奥秘的科学家 on some of the fundamental mysteries of our universe.
有时候我会想是不是因为轮椅和残障 Sometimes I wonder if I am as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities
和我的发现一样有名 as I am for my discoveries.
我的学生生活总是跌跌撞撞的， As my student days were in full swing,
我逐渐发现事情有点不对劲 I was gradually becoming aware that all was not well.
在牛津的最后一年，我注意到 During my final year at Oxford, I had noticed
我在动作上变得 that I was getting rather clumsy
笨手笨脚 in my movements
会毫无来由跌到个一、两次 and I fell over once or twice for no apparent reason.
然后在一个晚上，深夜，发生严重的事 But then one evening, late at night, something more serious happened.
我记得那次是史提夫从楼梯上摔下来 I recall the time that Steve fell down the stairs.
他从楼梯一路跌到底 He fell downstairs all the way to the bottom.
他失去意识，他忘了自己是谁 He'd lost consciousness and then he couldn't remember who he was.
他记不得他在哪里，所以非常严重 He couldn't remember where he was, so it was a very serious thing.
当我回想那一次跌倒， When I look back at that fall,
我没有意识到，那是要发生的事情的徵兆... I didn't realise at the time it was a warning sign of things to come...
...我恢复之后，更迫切的事马上袭上心头 ...but I recovered and soon had more pressing things on my mind.
儘管我对读书放得很轻鬆， Despite my relaxed attitude to study,
我还是以第一名毕业 I graduated with first-class honours
离开牛津，再到剑桥大学攻取博士学位 and left Oxford for Cambridge University to begin my PhD.
那时候我根本还不知道 Yet little did I know
我会被诊断出永远改变我一生、 I would soon be diagnosed with a crippling illness
让人残障的疾病 that would change my life forever.
史帝芬言谈的速度逐渐慢下 Well, Stephen's speed of communication has very gradually slowed down.
几年前，他还可以用他手上的开关 A few years ago, he was still able to use his hand switch
可以按轮椅上开关 and able to communicate by
来进行沟通 clicking this switch on his wheelchair.
在他再也没办法继续那样做， When he wasn't able to do that any more,
我们把开关调整到他可以提高到他的脸颊， we switched over to a switch that he mounted to his cheek,
但配合他的动作逐渐慢下来 but with him slowing down with that
我们开始处理他的感应器 we've approached his sponsors
以便可以辨识脸部的表情 and so they've been looking into facial recognition.
这是高速摄影机 This is a high-speed camera
可以让我们看到非常细微的 which will allow us to see very fine details
在脸部表情细节，这样可以帮我们改善 on the facial expressions and this will help us to improve
－你讲话的速度 －对呀! - the rate of your speech and input. - Yeah.
我要学著和我缓慢的沟通速率共存 I have had to learn to live with my slow rate of communication.
我只能藉由脸颊肌肉的收缩来写字 I can only write by flinching my cheek muscle
用来移动电脑的游标 to move the cursor on my computer.
我担心有一天连这块肌肉也失效了， One day I fear this muscle will fail,
但我想要可以讲话再快一点 but I would like to be able to speak more quickly.
你要我把它改成英文字母吗？ Do you want me to change it to English Alphabetic?
是呀!嗡嗡叫! Yeah. I'm buzzing.
是吗？ Yeah?
这样...？可以吗，史帝芬？ Is that all...? Is that all OK, Stephen?
可以吗？ Yeah?
我完全不懂，史帝芬 I'm not getting this at all, Stephen.
有时候他可能弄错了 Sometimes he can make a mistake
然后删掉，再然后 and then he deletes it and then
又弄错了，然后再删掉 he makes another mistake and deletes it
你知道吗？这样盯著看很挫折的 and, you know, it can be frustrating there watching
他也可以看到他脸上的挫折感 and he can see the frustration on his face as well.
我希望现代的软体专家 I am hoping this current generation of software experts
可以掌握我留在脸上的细微动作 can harness what little movement I have left in my face
再转换成快一点的沟通模式 and turn it into faster communication.
你现在的软体有点过时了，好吧，是过时很久了， Your current piece of software is a little dated, well, it's a lot dated,
但你用得非常习惯， but you're very used to using it,
所以我们可以换个方法 so we've changed the method by which
来预测你下一个字 your next word prediction works
可能会有很多字要挑 and it can pretty much pick up
每一次都要确认一个字 the correct word every single time,
即使...即使你要的字母离得很远 even if you're... even if you're letters away from it.
比起上一个版本，这个版本有很大的进步 This is a big improvement over the previous version.
我真的很喜欢它 I really like it.
－真的很神奇... －我想它运作得很出色 - That's pretty amazing, the... - I think it's actually gone brilliantly.
他对我们秀给他看的东西，感到很兴奋 The stuff that we've showed him he was excited about.
任何事情都比他现在的东西好， Anything better than what he's doing,
我想都可以成功，任何事情 I think, is going to be a success and anything
只要不把史帝芬的生活弄得比现在更混乱， that doesn't complicate Stephen's life any more than it is,
我想这样都也是成功的 I think that will be a success as well.
ATV120，非常感谢 ATV120, thank you very much.
1962年，二十岁 In 1962, aged 20,
我到剑桥攻取博士学位， when I arrived at Cambridge to begin my PhD,
在我正要开始面对第一个真正的科学挑战时， I was also desperate for my voice to be heard as I embarked
我也对我的声音愈来愈小而感到绝望 on my first real scientific challenge.
那个时候，有两套正确描述宇宙的理论相互竞争 At the time, two theories battled to correctly describe the universe.
稳定状态的理论 The steady-state theory
认为宇宙总会存在 held that the universe had always existed
直到永远 and would exist forever.
但还有一个理，比较刺激的想法 But there was another, more exciting idea.
大霹雳理论认为 The big-bang theory suggested
宇宙起源于一次巨大的爆炸 that the universe had begun with a huge explosion.
我决定试试看 I decided to try to see
我是不是能够从大霹雳里看出什麽端倪 if I could shed any light on how the big bang came to be.
但现在，我立即遭遇的挑战是 But, by now, the immediate challenge I was facing
能继续控制自己的身体 was to keep control of my body.
我的动作愈来愈不稳定， My movements were becoming even more erratic,
但我决定不要让家人担心， though I was determined not to worry my family,
所以我打算隐瞒起来 so I tried to keep it to myself.
史帝芬在学期结束后，回家度圣诞节 Stephen went home for Christmas after one term
他发病的症状 and the symptoms that he had
严重到无法隐瞒他的父母亲 had become too severe to hide from his parents.
他的爸爸坚持带他去找，我想当务之急是家庭医生 His father insisted on taking him to, I think, the family doctor first
然后医生推荐了一位在伦敦的专家 and then that doctor recommended a specialist in London.
所以，圣诞节之后，史帝芬和他父亲到伦敦 So, after Christmas, Stephen and his father went to London
进了圣巴萨罗缪医院 and St Bartholomew's Hospital.
我在医院里待了两个礼拜 I was in hospital for two weeks
做了许了令人不快的检验 and had a wide range of unpleasant tests.
他们从我的手臂上取了点肌肉样品，并把电极刺进我的体内 They took a muscle sample from my arm and stuck electrodes into me.
然后注射了某种液体到我的脊椎和照X光 Then they injected some liquid into my spine and took X-rays.
最后，我被诊断为肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化症 Eventually, I was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
...也称为运动神经元疾病或简称为ALS ...otherwise known as motor neurone disease or ALS.
预后很不乐观 The prognosis was not good.
我只剩下两、三年可活 I was given two to three years to live.
叫史帝芬接受事实是件很难的事 It was always hard to tell how Stephen took it,
因为他根本不愿谈 because for one thing he wouldn't talk about it.
你知道的，如果你对一件无能为力的事，你... You know, if you can't do anything about it, you...
可能连谈都不想谈，或者... probably don't want to talk about it, or...
...有人谈到这件事 ...or have people talk about it.
他的确相当沮丧 He did seem pretty depressed
我认为他在情绪上是无法接受这件事的 and I don't think he accepted it emotionally.
整个家崩分离兮 The whole family went to pieces.
对每个人都很震惊 It was such a shock for everybody.
我的阿姨一夜之间头髮全白了 My aunt turned white in the night
我们都认为他，你晓得的... and we all thought he'd be, you know...
他年轻的生命无法撑得下去 he was not going to be able to live for very long.
没人知道我到底怎麽回事， Not knowing what was going to happen to me
病程的进展到底有多快， or how rapidly the disease would progress,
我都摸不著头绪 I was at a loose end.
医生要我回到剑桥继续我的研究... The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with my research...
...但我没有办法有更多的进展， ...but I was not making much progress and anyway
我可能没办法活到完成博士学位 I might not live long enough to finish my PhD.
我觉得我是某个悲剧的角色 I felt somewhat of a tragic character,
我开始听华格纳的作品 I took to listening to Wagner.
华格纳的「死亡宣告」，给我特别深刻的印象 Wagner's "The Annunciation Of Death" made a great impression on me
我第一次听的时候，刚好是我发病的时候 when I first heard it, as I had just developed motor neurone disease.
我接受它，而且到今天还是 I identified with it and still do today.
但就像现在一样，我还是活得好好的 But as it turned out, I didn't die.
刚开始的时候，病程来袭得相当猛烈 At first, the disease seemed to progress fairly rapidly.
然而，似乎随著时间慢慢缓和下来 As time went by, however, it seemed to slow down.
我也开始在工作上渐有斩获 I also began to make progress with my work.
但和一位名叫做 But what really made the difference
珍?怀德尔的女孩谈恋爱是完全不同 was falling in love with a girl called Jane Wilde
她是我在诊断出重病的时候遇到女孩 whom I had met about the same time I was diagnosed.
这给我能继续活下去的某种东西 This gave me something to live for.
他非常有趣，也很古怪 He was great fun, he was eccentric.
我深深被他那深深的微笑吸引 I was really drawn to his very wide smile
和他那双灰色的眼睛... and his beautiful grey eyes...
...我想那就是让我爱上他的原因 ...and I think that's what made me fall in love with him.
我们要一起抗拒病魔， We were going to defy the disease,
我们要一起挑战医生的权威 we were going to defy the doctors
而且我们要一起面对未来的挑战 and we were going to challenge the future.
珍美丽又温柔 Jane was beautiful and gentle
似乎没被我生病的残酷现实给吓倒了！ and seemingly undaunted by the harsh reality of my illness.
恋爱和订婚 Falling in love and getting engaged
是我需要的拼劲 was the motivation that I needed.
如果我要结婚，我就要有份工作， If I were to get married, I had to get a job,
要有工作，我就必须完成博士学位 and to get a job I had to finish my PhD.
因此我开始了这辈子里的第一努力工作 I therefore started working hard for the first time in my life.
令人惊奇的是，我居然喜欢这样 To my surprise, I found I liked it.
好了！史帝芬找到了他的志业，找到了心之所向 Well, Stephen had found his groove, he'd found his trajectory
而且当他找到志业所在，他会一直追寻下去 and when Stephen finds a trajectory he pursues it.
这对他是极度兴奋，因为他曾是那麽消沉 It was terribly exciting because he had been so depressed
从这里他的生活可以重新开始 and here he was with a new lease of life.
可能是因为我知道我来日无多， Perhaps because I realised I might not have much time,
我恢复了活力 I renewed my efforts
克服了60年代早期宇宙学里的重大问题... to tackle the big question in cosmology in the early '60s...
...宇宙会有个开始或是没有呢？ ...did the universe have a beginning or not?
许多科学家都很直觉反对大霹雳的想法， Many scientists were instinctively opposed to the idea of a big bang,
因为暗示著万物在某个时刻... because it implies a moment of creation...
...是出自于上帝之手 ...the hand of God.
对我而言，虽然物理领域里是容不下宗教， For me, though, religion has no role to play in physics,
但我还是纳闷不需要上帝 so I wondered if the big bang could have happened on its own
大霹雳会不会自己发生？ without the need for a god to get it going?
关键在于黑洞理论里 The key was in the theory of black holes.
那个时候，物理学家罗杰?潘罗斯正在研究 At the time, physicist Roger Penrose was working on what happens
当恒星在自己的重力下崩塌时到底会发生什麽事 when a star collapses under the force of its own gravity.
潘罗斯认为恒星会把自己挤压到 Penrose claimed the star would crush itself
一个密度无限大的小点 to a tiny point of infinite density
在那个点上甚至连时间都会停下来 where even time itself would come to a stop.
他把它称作「奇异点」 - 黑洞的核心 He called it a "singularity" - the heart of a black hole.
在我研究重力崩塌，黑洞的理论时， When I was doing this work on gravitation collapse, black holes,
我根本没听过史帝芬这号人物， I'd never heard of Stephen,
所以我在小小的私人聚会上，他就是 so I had a little private session, and he was somebody
理解很快的那种人 who picked up ideas quickly.
他是那种针对非常棘手问题 He sort of stood out as being someone
进行讨论、令人侧目的人，我的确记得！ who asked extremely awkward questions. I do remember that!
我不带感情进行研究， I worked relentlessly to see
看看我是不是能利用奇异点的观念用在整个宇宙上面 if I could apply the notion of a singularity to the entire universe.
然后，突然间，我就豁然开朗 Then, suddenly, I had it.
我想像时间向后退，回到开始的时候 I imagined going backwards to the beginning
理解到在那个点上，就在最开始那个点上， and worked out that, right at the start,
整个宇宙也一定是个奇异点 the universe would have been a singularity too.
时间停止的这个点，就是万物的起点 Here, time stops - you've reached the true beginning of everything.
可能可以给宇宙有个时间起点的原因 There is no previous time in which the universe could have had a cause.
在大霹雳里，可以自发性的创造出来 It spontaneously created itself in the big bang.
史帝芬的研究基本上显示 The work that Stephen did basically showed there was
这个奇异点的状态不可能是由 a singular state which couldn't have come
前一个宇宙产生出来的 from a previous universe.
所以你可以说，这是一个可以告诉你宇宙有个起点的理论 So you could say it is a theory which tells you the universe had a beginning.
藉此解决物理学家想要避免 By addressing the question of creation
造物主的问题 that physicists had avoided,
我独排众议指出，自然界的定律显示 I had controversially shown the laws of nature suggest
并不需要一位造物主或上帝的角色 there is no need for a creator or a god.
宇宙完全可以由自己形成而存在 The universe just came into existence all by itself.
我对大霹雳和宇宙起源的发现 My findings about the big bang and the possible beginning
让我的博士论文成果丰硕 of the universe gave me the results I needed to enhance my PhD.
我申请剑桥大学冈维尔与凯斯学院 I applied for a research fellowship
的研究奖学金，结果成功了！ at Gonville and Caius College which proved successful.
奖学金代表珍和我可以结婚， The money from the fellowship meant that Jane and I could get married,
我们在1965年七月结婚 which we did in July 1965.
在小小的教堂里挤满了很多的亲友 We had the maximum number of guests in the tiny chapel.
史帝芬拄著柺杖走路，手臂没有力气 Stephen was walking with a stick and he was losing strength in his arms
我们出发到纽约的郊区度蜜月 and we went off for our honeymoon to upstate New York
也到康乃尔大学的物理会议 to a physics conference at Cornell University
我才知道史帝芬生命中的女神 and there I got to know that a goddess in Stephen's life,
和我结婚的这个男人的女神是物理！ with whom I was sharing the marriage, was physics!
度完蜜月回来， After returning from our honeymoon,
在剑桥中间 Jane and I bought a house
小圣玛丽大道，珍和我买了间房子 in Little St Mary's Lane in the centre of Cambridge.
1966年三月，在珍的协助下， In March 1966, I completed and submitted
我完成并提交了我的博士论文， my PhD thesis, with the help of Jane,
珍花了很多时间，不辞辛劳在打字机上，把论文打出来 who had spent many painstaking hours at the typewriter, typing it up.
我的论文里的发现更是大大加强了我在宇宙学的名声 The findings in my thesis greatly enhanced my reputation in cosmology.
我想史帝芬的名气当然一飞冲天 Stephen's profile certainly did, I think, rocket.
知道大霹雳的发生是重要的， It's important to know that there was a big bang
因为那是宇宙论的基石 because that governs our cosmology.
瞭解它像什麽和为什麽 It's also important to know what it was like
它会像那个样子也很重要， and why it was like what it was like,
因为当你回溯自然界的万事万物时， because when you trace back everything in nature
最后都会回到大霹雳， you get ultimately to the big bang,
而且它是个奇异点状态的这个事实 and the fact that it was a singular state
是我们理解最多的部分 is very much part of that understanding.
史帝芬，我只作我的...博士论文的快速重点提示，好吗？这样可以吗？ Stephen, I'll just do a quick recap... of my PhD, yeah? That's fine, yeah?
我早期的工作在某种程度上是要回答 My early work went some way to answering
宇宙起源的问题， how our universe began,
但还是有很多东西可以发现 but there is still plenty more to find out.
膜宇宙学里，黑洞应该会辐射，不会很激烈，但会缓缓的 Brane-world black holes should radiate if they aren't extreme, but slowly.
我在剑桥指导新一代的宇宙学家 At Cambridge, I mentor a new generation of cosmologists
设法克服更困难的问题 who are tackling ever-tougher questions.
这是我最喜欢的工作 It's this work that I enjoy the most.
你可能也会说史瓦西解并不存在 You might as well say the Schwarzschild solution doesn't exist
因为它会辐射 because it radiates.
好吧！我要好好想想！ Well, I'll have to think about it.
他每天都在办公室，我意思是，对我们 He's in the office every day and, I mean, it's basically
博士生而言，他一直都在，对我们而言，如果需要他 for us PhD students. It's great - I mean, he's there for us
是很棒的事，是一种权力，不...不...我是说，一种很棒的特权 if we want him to, kind of, right, so, no, no, I mean, it's... a great privilege.
我总想分享我的热忱和兴奋 I have always wanted to share my enthusiasm and excitement.
没有比得上「我发现了」的时刻 There's nothing like the eureka moment
尤其发现了前人不知道的事 of discovering something that no-one knew before.
我不会拿性高潮来作比较，但可以持续更久一点 I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
下一个重大的「我发现」时刻发生在 My next major eureka moment happened
我最不抱以希望的时候 when I was least expecting it.
在1970年的秋天， In the autumn of 1970,
那个时候我正集中精力在研究黑洞的问题 I had been concentrating my research on black holes.
那时，珍和我有了两个小孩－ By now, Jane and I had two children -
三岁的罗伯，和刚出生的露西 Robert, aged three years, and Lucy, who had just been born.
十一月的一个晚上，在我准备就寝的时候， One evening in November, as I was getting ready for bed,
一个念头一闪而过 an idea charged through my brain.
只有宇宙学家能真正领会， Only cosmologists would truly grasp it,
而且会大大提升我的名气 but it would greatly enhance my reputation.
我正坐在床沿 I was sitting on one side of the bed
而史帝芬坐在另外一边的床沿 and Stephen was sitting on the other side of the bed
正在和他的扭扣奋战 tussling with his buttons
那个夜上他比平时花了更多时间 and this was one evening when he took longer about it than usual.
所以我喂完小孩 So I finished feeding the baby
然后他说... and then he said...
我想我解决了一个问题 "I think I've solved a problem."
突然间，我知道了当两个黑洞碰撞和融合时 Suddenly, I had a revelation about what happens
会发生什麽事的真相 when two black holes collide and merge.
我发觉新黑洞的表面区域 I realised that the surface area of the new black hole
只会变得更大－但它的大小不会变大 could only get bigger - it could never decrease in size.
这听起来像是矇胧不明的概念， This may sound like an obscure discovery,
但这个想法揭露了某些宇宙基本的特质 but it revealed some fundamental properties of the universe.
儘管当时只有一小部分的物理学家能理解 Even though few physicists could understand it at the time,
但对我而言，这是非常兴奋的事 for me, it was very exciting.
我马上就下手写了有关黑洞规则的书 I was writing the rule book for black holes.
现在他们终于会听我在说什麽了！ Now my voice would really be heard.
我知道他做了非常重要的事， I knew he'd done something very important,
所以我当然非常激动 so I was absolutely thrilled
而且这当然让他在物理界名留青史－ and this, of course, made his name in a big way in physics -
他被认为是最具潜力的人 he'd been recognised as somebody with great potential,
现在他真的有个以他为名的发现 but now he really had a discovery to his name.
在1970年代早期，我在宇宙学的事业上 By the early 1970s, my career in cosmology
和我对宇宙的瞭解正开始要百花齐鸣 and my understandings of the universe were beginning to blossom.
但随著我的心灵愈来愈自信， But as my mind grew in confidence
而我的身体却迅速衰弱下去 my body was going into a rapid decline.
在家里，我非常不愿意向外人求助 At home, I was reluctant to ask for help from outsiders
而且我愈来愈依赖珍来帮我 and was relying upon Jane more and more to help me
早下帮我起床、著装、去工作 get up in the morning, get dressed and get to work.
在我到达剑桥时，我也需要学生的帮忙 And when I got to Cambridge I needed my students to help me too.
我们要签这个吗？ Are we signing this?
是的 Yes.
我第一次见到史帝芬 I first met Stephen
是在1970年剑桥时，当时我是个博士生 in 1972 at Cambridge when I became his PhD student.
他坐著轮椅，但要人推著轮椅， He was in a wheelchair, but a push wheelchair,
所以我也要帮他－吃东西 and so I also had a role in helping him - with eating
到附近绕绕，找点咖啡和茶这类东西， and moving around and having coffee and tea and things like that,
所以这是一段非常不一样的关系 so it was a rather unusual relationship.
那个时候，史帝芬当然还是用他的声音说话 In those days, Stephen, of course, was still speaking with his voice,
但他的声音依旧微弱， but his voice was still weak,
所以不容易听得出他在说什麽 so it wasn't so easy to hear what he was saying.
事实上，当我和史帝芬旅行时， And, indeed, when I travelled with Stephen,
我经常扮演翻译的角色， I would often be acting as an interpreter,
所以当史帝芬说了什麽 so Stephen would say something
如果那个人听不懂史帝芬讲的话， and if the person he was speaking to couldn't understand,
我就会再重複那句话 I would then repeat it.
虽然我被困在功能障碍身体里的程度 Although I was becoming increasingly trapped
愈来愈严重，但幸运的是我的心灵并没有受到影响 inside my dysfunctioning body, fortunately my mind was unaffected.
我觉得有个新的，必须找到解答的大问题 I had a new big question I felt compelled to find the answer to.
在我进入全盛时期，我在黑洞领域的名声 My reputation in the field of black holes was established
已经建立起来了 as we entered a golden age.
但我的下一个发现就把 But my next discovery would throw
所有宇宙学家至今的发现变得悬而未决 all of cosmologists' findings to date up in the air.
我正在计算关于 The calculations I was working on
发生在黑洞边缘的粒子 involved what happened to particles on the edge of a black hole
这些粒子被黑洞吸进去而消失 that were sucked in and disappeared.
我非常惊喜， To my great surprise,
我发现某些粒子可以逃离黑洞， I found that some particles could escape the black hole,
这似乎是对已知的物理定律开了一个大玩笑 which seemed to make a mockery of the known laws of physics.
一开始，我想这一定是个错误 At first, I thought this must be a mistake.
我的确记得他在解决这个问题时 I do remember when he was working on this problem
事实上，我还记得当他告诉我，他正在理解 and, indeed, I even remember when he told me he was working out
黑洞的量子效应，而且他似乎得到 the quantum effects of these black holes and he seemed to be getting
从黑洞里流出来的粒子流 this flux of particles coming out.
当史帝芬沉迷于一个问题时 When Stephen's thinking about a problem
他会很明显变得对它非常痴迷 he will become obviously obsessed with it.
那是段非常热烈的时期 It was a very intense period.
他身边总围绕著一群孩子 It was when he could be surrounded by children
没注意到接下会发生什麽，因为他像罗丹的沉思者 and not notice what was going on, because he was like Rodin's Thinker
用手扶著脑袋， with his head in his hands,
经常伴随著从喇叭沙沙地放出华格纳的音乐 often accompanied by Wagner blaring out from the loudspeakers.
用来驱动我剩馀的时间！ It used to drive me spare!
最后，经过几个月的累死人工作， Finally, after months of exhaustive work,
我找到我要找的 I found what I was looking for.
和之前所有黑洞的理论比起来 Contrary to all previously held theories on black holes,
我发现黑洞会发射粒子， I discovered that they must emit particles,
像是黑体辐射一样 like a hot body losing heat.
理论上，「蒸发」是指 This "evaporation" meant, in theory,
黑洞最终会消失 a black hole could eventually disappear.
我在1974年的情人节发表了我的发现 I announced my findings on St Valentine's Day in 1974
在牛津的宇宙学会议上，观众塞得满满的 at a cosmology conference in Oxford, to a packed audience.
他走到一端 He came to an end.
整个演讲场地完全静肃 And there was absolute silence in the lecture hall...
...我看到－演讲的主持人 ...and I can see it now - the chairman of the lecture
跳到台上，不说 jumped to his feet and instead of saying,
「感谢霍金教授令人深刻的演讲，」 "I must thank Professor Hawking for his remarkable lecture,"
而是说，「这太荒谬了！我没听过像这个样子的说法！」 he said, "This is preposterous! I have never heard anything like it!"
整个地方嗡嗡作响 The whole place was abuzz.
大家不能相信他们听到的内容 People couldn't believe what they had heard.
我那引发争议的发现 My controversial discovery
起初震惊了全球的物理界... initially shocked the world of physics...
...但最后它被接受了，并称为霍金辐射 ...but eventually it became accepted and known as Hawking radiation.
我对发现它感到很自豪 I am proud to have discovered it.
这是个非常重要的成果，因为这个结果... This was a remarkably important result because it was a result which...
可以统一相对论、量子力学和热力学 unified relativity theory and quantum theory and thermodynamics.
物理学全都是关于统一的想法 And physics is really all about unifying ideas.
这三套理论似乎是被牵到一块了 These three subjects seemed to be brought together
而且这是第一次我们似乎看到这种的统一方式 and this was the first time we'd seen that kind of unification.
无论现在或当时的物理界，你看到结论是这样... Every now and then in physics, you get a result which is...
这样美妙，就像在舌尖上滚动的糖果一样 it's so beautiful, it really is like rolling candy on the tongue.
我真的非常引以为傲... I was enormously proud...
非常为史帝芬所能达到的成就感到骄傲 enormously proud of what Stephen had achieved.
在我发表我的霍金辐射理论之后 After I announced my theory of Hawking radiation
和之后黑洞爆炸的发现， and a later discovery of exploding black holes,
一长串国际的奖项随之而来 a procession of international awards followed.
在1974年的春天，我被介绍到皇家学会， In the spring of 1974, I was inducted into the Royal Society,
最有名望的科学团体之一， one of the most prestigious bodies of scientists.
我的名字现在放在牛顿和达尔文的旁边 My name now sat alongside Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin.
一年后，我从教宗保禄六世， A year later, I received the Gold Medal for Science,
获颁科学金牌奖 from Pope Paul VI.
我在三十二岁就名满天下， Aged 32, I was thrilled to have such high-profile awards to my name
也刺激了新的机会随之而来 and exciting new opportunities beckoned.
1974年，另一扇门为我而开... In 1974, doors started to open for me...
...我被邀请到加州理工学院 ...and I was invited on a visiting professorship
作为客座教授 to the California Institute of Technology in Los Angeles.
这就表示我要举家搬迁一个学年 This meant moving with the whole family for the academic year
而且美国西岸的引诱是很难抗拒的 and the lure of the American West Coast was irresistible.
我们正在经历量子物理 We were in the midst of a revolution
应用在黑洞的革命时期当中 in the application of quantum physics to black holes.
我只是希望在这一年之中 I was simply hoping to have a year in which
可以由加州理工学院的科学家能从这个成果做出更好的理论 the result would be better science done by Caltech scientists,
藉由我的研究团队和其他人 by my research group and others
和史帝芬做出更好的科学理论 and better science done by Stephen.
在加州的生活和剑桥是截然不同的 Life in California was very different from Cambridge.
我现在有丰富的收入和大屋子可住 I now had a large salary and a big house
离学校只有一步之遥 just a stone's throw from the university.
美洲是完全不一样的生活 Well, America could have been on another planet.
我们住在豪宅里， We were living in the lap of luxury,
为了欢迎我们所费不赀， no expense spared to make us welcome,
这个电子轮椅是提供 and this great gift of an electric wheelchair
给史帝芬最棒的礼物 provided for Stephen's use.
然而，即使美国提供了各种便利的设施给我们， Yet, although we had all the mod cons that America could offer us,
但是家居生活需要珍的承担 it was becoming clear that the demands of home life on Jane
的压力愈来愈大 were becoming too intense.
照顾两个稚子 Looking after two young children
和处理我愈来愈因肌肉无力 and trying to cope with my ever-increasing disabilities
所造成的紧绷 were causing too much strain.
我看不到加绪在我身上 I could not see my way through
压力是不是有尽头... what it was going to demand of me...
...我想到一个很棒的方法－ ...and this wonderful idea came to me -
我们是不是可以 if we were going to go to California
和一些学生一起到加州， and the students were going to come too,
为什麽我们不能在家里提供床位 why didn't we offer them a bed in our house
只要能协助史帝芬作为回报呢？ in return for some help with Stephen?
当然，在学生和博士监督者 Of course, it's not the normal relationship
之间而言，这种关系非比寻常 between a student and the PhD supervisor,
牺牲家居生活的自由来换取 but, for me, that was a good deal because I lived rent free
史帝芬离家后的协助，但对我而言是很值得的交易 in exchange for sort of helping Stephen out around the home,
洗澡和协助吃饭，像这类的事 you know, at bath times and helping with meals and things like that.
但在加州新生活的兴奋 But the excitement of a new life in California
被我运动神经元疾病给硬生生打断了 was harshly interrupted by my motor neurone disease.
生理的症状不可逆往更糟的方向发展 The physical symptoms took an irreversible turn for the worse.
就在那一年，他丧失了使用双手的能力 That was the year in which he lost the use of his hands.
刚到的时候，虽然有些困难， When he arrived, he could still write equations,
他还能写方程式 though with some difficulty.
快到年终时，他就做不到了 By the end of the year, he couldn't.
所以...就身体发展而言， So it was... in terms of his physical development,
是更是雪上加霜 it was a more difficult period.
另一方面，就他的心灵发展而言， On the other hand, in terms of his mental development,
在他逐渐丧失双手的功能时， as he gradually lost the use of his hands,
反而更深入发展出独特的思考方式 he further developed his unique ways of thinking
藉由在脑中操作形状和拓扑的能力 by manipulating shapes and topologies in his head
而且发展得比我们其他人还先进 and became even more advanced than the rest of us.
因为失去手部精细灵巧的功能， By losing the finer dexterity of my hands,
我被迫要在心灵里作穿越宇宙的旅行 I was forced to travel through the universe in my mind
而且要想办法其中的运作方式视觉化 and try to visualise the ways in which it worked.
他能以光速穿梭知识的领域 He could move at lightning speed across the frontiers of knowledge
看到没人能看到的东西 and see things that nobody else could see.
肢障迫使他必须以新的方式和新的方向继续进行下去 The disability forced him to carry himself in new ways, new directions.
把问题转换到我心灵，已经是我发现东西的主要方法 Turning problems over in my mind has been my main method
这种方法我已经使用了大半辈子了 of discovery for nearly half my life now.
围在我身边的人开始交谈而嗡嗡作响， While all around me people have buzzed away,
开始深入对谈时， deep in conversation,
我经常会被送到离他们远一点的地方， I have often been transported afar,
陷入我自己的思绪之中，去揣摩宇宙如何运作 lost inside my own thoughts, trying to fathom how the universe works.
1975年的夏天，我们从加州返回剑桥， When we returned from California in the summer of 1975,
关于未来，和疾病共存，有很多都不确定 much of the future, living with my illness, seemed uncertain.
所以珍和我在安乐的家居生活中感到舒适... So Jane and I took comfort in the security of a happy family life...
...让家居生活变得更简单一点， ...and, to make home life easier,
我们意识到我的肢体障碍使得我们需要 we realised my disabilities meant that we needed
一位学生和我们全天候生活在一起 a student living with us full-time.
我晓得史帝芬?霍金是个非常聪明的科学家 I knew that Stephen Hawking was a brilliant scientist
也听说他有非常严重的残障 and I was told that he was severely disabled
他说话的声音很微弱， and I was told that his voice was very weak,
所以大约花了一个礼拜的时间 so it would probably take about a week
我才弄懂他在说些什麽 before, you know, I could understand what he was saying.
当然，因为史帝芬的环境， Of course, because of Stephen's circumstances,
你可以说没有一天是真正正常的 you could say no day was really normal.
史帝芬的轮椅里有著...大量的电池 Stephen had these massive batteries that... in his wheelchair
当然，他有备用电池，所以我尽可能带在 and, of course, he had spares, and so I loaded as many as I could
史帝芬的轮椅底下 on the bottom of Stephen's wheelchair
史帝芬根本不知道我让它载了如此重的电池 and Stephen didn't know that I had loaded it down so heavily
而且我也不是要它用来运载东西的，所以当他开始要爬坡时 and I didn't want to have to carry the thing, so he starts up the hill
然后我看到他要转个弯，他就... and then I see him turning the corner and he's about...
十...大约二十公尺远，我看到他慢慢倾斜后退， 10... about 20 metres away and I see him slowly tipping backwards
然后跌进了灌木丛里 and he fell over into the bushes.
是呀！这算是某种惊人的试范，重力大师被地球 Yeah, it was somewhat alarming to see the master of gravity being overcome
重力场痛宰，然后跌进...跌进灌木丛里去的演示 by the Earth's gravitational field and falling into the... into the bushes.
我跑上去把他扶起来，当然，他显得很沮丧 I went up to retrieve him and he was, of course, quite upset
我没办法理解 and it was perhaps good
在那种情况下他在说些什麽，可能是件好事 that I couldn't understand all that he said on that occasion.
如果我知道它快要停下来，我就可以把它接住 I could have caught that if I realised it was gonna stop.
虽然行动不便的程度 Although my increasing disabilities
影响我的生活愈来愈严重， were greatly affecting my life more and more,
我还是对护士的照顾极端排斥 I was fiercely reluctant to accept nursing care.
我最后的让步是，我可以利用身边的人组成团队 I was convinced that I could build a team of people around me
用他们的方式来照顾我 who could care for me in their own way.
我们一点也不需要 We didn't have any nurses
从医疗部门的护士－因为这是我的角色，我应该照顾他的 at all in the department - that was part of my role. I would look after him.
你要回答那个问题吗？ You'd like to reply to that one?
好！我要擦他的鼻子， Well, I had to wipe his nose,
如果头髮遮到他的眼睛，我要帮他梳头髮 comb his hair for him if it was falling down into his eyes
而且我还要盯著他吃、喝 and I could see that when he was eating or drinking
这是个问题，对我而言，是个严重的问题 this could cause a problem and a very big one for me
因为我根本没有任何护理的训练，连边都没有 because I didn't have any nursing training whatsoever.
他咳嗽有可能非常严重 He would have these coughing fits that would be quite severe
你知道吗？你可能会认为他是噎著了，生死一瞬间 and, you know, you'd sort of think he was gonna choke and die at any moment.
我觉得我有责任尽可能给他最好的照顾， I felt responsible to try to give him the best care that I could,
但是想到会发生在他身上的事，又觉得很可怕 but it was scary thinking what might happen to him.
有一天晚上，史帝芬起了非常吓人的噎住窒息 One night Stephen had the most horrendous choking fit
我根本不知道怎麽办 and I just didn't know what to do
所有东西都在震动， and everything just shook,
窗摇门震 windows rattled, doors shook.
这是最恐怖的经验 It was the most terrifying experience
非常危急 and it could have been critical.
虽然我能活下去，做我要做的工作， Although I was able to live and work as I wanted,
但我从未真正瞭解 I was never really able to understand
在我身边的人是处在如何紧绷的状态... the strain it was placing on the people around me...
...特别是我的太太，珍 ...especially my wife, Jane.
我开始感觉到我们的情况有两个面向... I was beginning to feel that there were two faces to our situation...
...一面是公众形象，物理界的神童... ...one was the public image, the wunderkind of physics...
击败了运动神经元病魔， who had overcome motor neurone disease,
坐著轮椅在世界上急驰来去 who was whizzing round the world in his wheelchair
接受各地的荣耀和奖牌的人， to receive honours and medals,
另外一面，是家里的情况 and the other side, the other face, was the home situation,
有时候逼著我们都掉进了我们自己小小的黑洞里 where sometimes the illness forced us into our own little black hole.
我的健康日益衰弱，就是活生生的提醒著我，时间和我不在同一边 The decline in my health was a stark reminder that time was against me.
虽然儘管我的家庭承受著压力 Yet despite the pressures on my family
我还是决定要实现一辈子的雄心壮志 I was determined to realise a lifelong ambition
写本科普的书，介绍宇宙的起源 by writing a popular book about how the universe had begun.
我希望是一本能被全世界 I wanted the book to be read
数以百万人阅读的书，像是在机场畅销的小说一样 by millions of people around the world, like a best-selling airport novel.
我认为不会成功的 I did not think it would work.
我认为不会成功，因为基本上 I did not think it would work because basically
如果你看著在机场所有其他的书 if you look at all the other books in airports
没有一本会像这样的！ there are none like that!
但是，我确定想要知道宇宙起源 However, I felt sure that the mass market
会是很有市场的书 would want to know about how the universe began.
1984年之前，我就已经完成了第一章 By 1984, I had completed the first chapter.
他有著极大的兴趣 There was great interest in him.
他有著伟大的公众形象 He was a great public figure,
所以城里的每个出版业者都对这本书有著浓厚的兴趣 so actually every publisher in town was interested in the book.
我想我们准备好合约要和他签约 I guess we had a contract ready for him to sign
我已经听说他要到芝加哥， and I had heard that he was going to be in Chicago,
所以我就到那里等他， so I was there and waiting,
然后有辆车开进停车场 and then this car pulls into the parking lot
然后有个绅士出来，他走到后座开门 and this gentleman gets out and he goes back to the passenger door
像是从里面舀出一种和真人大小、坏掉的娃娃在他的怀里， and scoops out what looks like a kind of life-size, broken doll into his arms,
再把他放到轮椅里去 and brings it back to the wheelchair
温柔轻巧把娃娃放对位置 and kind of gently eases the doll into place
突然间娃娃开始动了起来 and suddenly the doll becomes animated.
他的手一掌握控制权， As soon as that hand is on the controls,
这个娃娃马上被吹进生命一样，轮椅转动了两、三次之后，就活灵灵起来 the thing literally kicks into life, spins around two, three times and takes off.
然后布莱恩叫我，我马上下车 And then Brian shouts to me, I've gotten out of my car,
他叫著：「就是你吗？彼德?古乐迪吗？」 he shouts, "Is that you? Is that Peter Guzzardi?"
我说：「是呀!我...我就是！」 and I said, "Yes, it's... it's me!"
然后他说：「好！快，跟我们过来－这是霍金教授！」 and he says, "Well, quick, follow us - that's Professor Hawking!"
我和彼德签了约 I signed up with Peter
开始著手完成第一次的草稿 and set to work completing the first draft of my book.
我竭尽所能简化物理学， I tried to simplify the physics as best I could, and by the end
最后我很满意把书瘦身成功 I was pleased and felt it was in pretty good shape.
但彼德并不满意 But Peter wasn't convinced.
我相当失望，对呀！ I was pretty disappointed, yeah.
我想：「这应该会很难才对」 I thought, "This is gonna be really difficult."
但我只是坚决，我们既然对它做了重要的承诺 But I just decided we'd made a substantial commitment to it
而且，天哪！我们就要完成这本书 and, by God, we were gonna do this book,
所以我们刚开始的时候举步为艰，接著就像被闪电打到一样， so let's just start slogging and then maybe lightning would strike,
美妙的事情最跟著发生了 or something wonderful would happen.
的确被闪电击中， Lightning did indeed strike,
但不是彼德和我所期待的那种方式 but not in the way that Peter and I were hoping.
那年夏天，我从重写的过程中抽身而出， That summer, I had taken a break from rewriting,
旅行到瑞士渡假... to travel to Switzerland on holiday...
...但当我到了那里，却得到了肺部感染 ...but while I was there I caught a chest infection
然后转变为肺炎，一下子就变得很严重 that developed into pneumonia and quickly became very serious.
我陷入了药物引发的昏迷，接上了生命维生系统 I was put into a drug-induced coma and onto a life-support machine.
医生觉得我大去之期不远矣， The doctors thought I was so far gone,
他们要珍关掉机器 they offered to Jane to turn off the machine.
但她拒绝 But she refused.
最后，在珍的坚持下，我飞回了剑桥 Finally, Jane insisted that I was flown back to Cambridge.
我记得非常清楚 I remember very vividly
经过那些门，当我到了那里 walking through the doors and being really
我所看到的让我感到相当震惊 quite rocked by what I saw when I got in there
而且我意识到史帝芬病得非常非常重 and I realised that Stephen was really very, very ill.
事情看来很糟糕 Things were not looking good.
他有可能会死 He could have died.
他们说他没办法呼吸 We were just told that he couldn't breathe
当然，我们都知道那个时候他有多虚弱，而且他在生病前 and, of course, we knew how weak he was at that time, and he had been ill before
我们都知道他只是过一天算一天而已 and we all knew that he was on borrowed time.
在加护病房的那几个礼拜是我一生中最黑暗的时期 The weeks of intensive care were the darkest of my life.
我想我总用那麽努力对抗病魔，以致我根本没有准备 I felt I had always fought my illness so hard that I was not prepared
要如此轻易妥协 to give in so easily.
慢慢的，药物开始起作用，而且感染也消失了， Slowly, the drugs began to work and the infection passed,
但外科医生要作气切好让我可以呼吸， but the surgeons had to perform a tracheotomy to allow me to breathe,
会在我的气管上切出一个小切口 which made a small incision in my windpipe
由那个小切口和呼吸器相连接 and connected me to a ventilator via the hole in my throat.
结果，我被夺走了说话的能力 As a result, I was now robbed of the ability to talk.
我要面对不能适当沟通的生活 I faced a life unable to properly communicate.
那是一段他身边的人都非常担心的时刻 It was a very worrying time for everyone around him
而且你会想：「你认为以后再也不能说话了吗？」 and you're thinking, "Do you think you'll ever be able to talk again?"
或者，「如果你不能说话，怎麽工作呢？」 or, "How will you work if you can't talk?"
所以，是的，那是一段非常煎熬的日子 So, yes, it was a very bleak time.
所有人都希望我能完成我的书，而且可能甚至我的工作， All hopes of finishing my book, and perhaps even my career,
似乎都完蛋了！ seemed to be over.
每个人都很紧张，非常紧张 It was very tense for everybody. It was incredibly tense.
很难想像史帝芬可以全身而退的离开 It was difficult to think that Stephen was going to come out of there
痊癒回家 and be OK.
几週的复元期变成几个月， As the weeks of my recovery turned into months,
在我看来情况很明显，我身边的每个人都知道，装著呼吸器 it became obvious to me, and everyone around me, that being on a ventilator
代表我需要持续看护和监视来维持生命 meant that I needed constant care and monitoring to keep alive.
这是非常现实的情况，事情产生了这样戏剧性的转变 This was a very big realisation that things were going to dramatically change
这表示需要二十四小时全天候的看护 and that this was going to be needing 24-hour-a-day nursing care.
他们的生活从未，也不曾如此相同 Their lives were never, ever going to be the same again.
一旦护士进到屋里...生活就变了！ Once nurses came into the house... life changed.
对我们、我和孩子们，都很难接受 And that was very difficult for all of us - for me, for the children.
家再也不是家 Home was no longer home.
没有隐私、没有隐私， There was no privacy, no privacy,
因为隔牆有耳 because the walls were listening to everything.
儘管介入了家居生活， Despite the intrusions on family life,
由于护士的协助，我愈来愈强壮 with the nurses' help, I grew stronger.
但是我仍然被困在我自己的身体里 Yet I still felt trapped inside my body.
在家人指著纸卡上的字母时， For a time, at home, I could communicate
我一度只能用 only by raising my eyebrows
抬抬眉毛来和他们沟通 when someone pointed to letters on a card.
大家都认为我的工作和完成写书都遥遥无期了 All thoughts of work and finishing my book grew distant.
但在相当意外的情况下，希望隐隐露出微光 But then, quite unexpectedly, a glimmer of hope
跨洋而来 came from across the water.
一位物理学家打电话给我说：「我知道」 I got a call from a physicist and he said, "I know
你正在为ALS的病人研发电脑系统」 you're working on computer systems for people with ALS."
他说：「我从在英国的某个人那里得知， He says, "I've got someone in England,
「他是个物理学教授， "he's a professor of physics,
「失去说话的能力，而且他需要一个协助系统。」 "who lost the ability to speak and he needs a system."
这个系统称为等化器 The system was called Equalizer
在萤幕上半部有一组字母， and the top part of the screen was a set of letters,
几排字母，在萤幕下半部是一排单字－ rows of letters, and then the bottom part of the screen was rows of words -
三十六个最常用的单字， 36 very frequently used words,
所以你可以选上半部或下半部 so he could choose the top part or the bottom part.
他学得很快，我被它给打败了！ He learned that very quickly and I was blown away by it.
他用惊人的速度来扫描用字 He was scanning just amazingly fast.
我的右手还有足够的动作 I had enough movement in my right hand
可以操作电脑系统和写出我要的单字 to be able to click the computer system and write the words I wanted.
最后，我终于可以自由自在交谈 Finally, I was free to communicate again.
我渴望补上失去的时间，因为生病而失去的时间 I was keen to make up the lost time that my illness had forced upon me.
彼德?古乐迪给我一大叠笔记 I had a stack of notes from Peter Guzzardi
要我对书中内容的修改和澄清， suggesting changes and clarifications to my book,
但我需要有人在我这里提供实际的帮忙 but I needed practical help with the rewrite at my end,
要有个人作为中间的媒介 someone who could act as a go-between.
...儘可能简化图像 ...is keeping the graphic as simple as we can.
在美国这边的人 The people in the States
在办公室用电话扩音器讲话 were speaking on a loudspeaker phone in his office
史帝芬用他的新电脑系统在萤幕上写 and Stephen was writing, using his new computer system on the screen
然后你要说出他在电话里说出来的内容 and then you would say what he was saying over the phone.
我们就这样把它拼凑起来， We were just sort of cobbling it together,
我想，这可能是好方法 I think, is probably the right term.
我不知道史帝芬那边发生了什麽事， I had no idea what was going on on Stephen's side of this,
那里似乎是他在说服史帝芬完全没问题了， where it seems that he was persuading Stephen that this was OK,
如果他想要开始思考，可以帮助史帝芬摆脱束缚， helping Stephen off the walls if Stephen started to think,
「我干嘛要花这些时间 "Why the hell am I spending all this time
「去让这个白痴弄懂这麽基本的东西？」 "making this idiot understand this basic stuff?"
经过几个月的工作，重写的版本完成了 After months of work, the rewrite was complete.
我们没有人真正知道，这本书是不是会受欢迎 None of us really knew whether the book would be liked
或者如我们所愿卖得出去 and would sell as we all hoped for.
此时，我们才取书名－ All we could do now was give it a title -
时间简史－付印并等待 A Brief History Of Time - send it off to the printers and wait.
对每个人都很讶异，书是一版一版的卖 But to everyone's surprise the book sold copy after copy
送到书店很快就卖完了 and very quickly bookshops were selling out.
当它上了畅销排行榜上，你真的被吓呆了！ When it hit the best-seller list, you're obviously surprised.
这是令人欢喜的惊奇，它当然是个惊奇 It was a pleasant surprise and it certainly was a surprise.
我想你不会找到人会说(我有可能会错) I don't think you'll find anybody - maybe I'm wrong - who'll say,
「是呀，我们早就知道这样下去，这本书一定会大卖的」 "Yes, we knew all along this was going to be a major hit."
我从来不会去期待这本书会成为 I had no expectation that it was going to be
世界上销量第一名的畅销书 the number-one best-selling book in the world.
我是指，不只在这里，在德国、斯洛维尼亚 I mean, not just here, but in Germany, Slovenia,
法国、义大利－世界上每个地方都希望 France, Italy - everywhere in the world there was the hope
有人可以发现生命的秘密 that someone had found the mystery of life.
而且从那个时候开始，持续让书付印成了一种竞赛 And from then on it was just a race to keep the book in print
迈向一百万本的销售量 and marching towards a million copies sold.
你知道吗？这是件令人非常愉悦的事 You know, it was very gratifying!
我在这一行已经三十八个年头了， You know, in the 38 years that I've been in this business,
...我从未看过有本书 ...I don't think I've ever had a book
可以持续畅销那麽久的时间 that stayed at the top of the best-seller list that long.
嗯，我对它这麽成功感到很讶异，我想它真的成功了！ Well, I was amazed at how well it did. I think it worked.
他启发了人们 He inspired people.
他给了人们某种宇宙诞生的完整的感受 He gave people some overall sense of the birth of the universe
而且它成了个话题，在各行各业之中 and it made this subject become a subject of conversation
成为茶馀饭后閒聊的话题 among people in all walks of life.
史帝芬?霍金教授的书 Professor Stephen Hawking's book
时间简史，一本不太可能畅销 A Brief History Of Time, an unlikely
却十分成功的畅销现象... but successful publishing phenomenon...
时间简史已经卖出大约八百万本... A Brief History Of Time has sold about eight million copies...
一本介绍他的理论的畅销书 A popular book about his theories
已经荣登美国畅销书排行榜的荣耀... is already topping the American best-sellers' list...
史帝芬?霍金著作的时间简史 The hugely successful A Brief History Of Time
获得不凡的成功 by Stephen Hawking...
时间简史蝉连畅销排行榜长达 A Brief History Of Time stayed in the best-seller list
超过四年之久 for over four years
而且还进了金氏世界记录 and entered into The Guinness Book Of Records for doing so.
至今，全球的销量已经超过一千万本了 To date, over 10 million copies have been sold worldwide.
接下来好几年，关于我书引发了许多争议 Over the next few years, a lot of fuss was made about my book.
在它被翻成四十种不同的语言后， I became famous nationally and around the world,
我在全国和全球都变得很有名， as it was translated into 40 different languages.
...很欣喜来欢迎史帝芬?霍金教授 ...delighted to welcome Professor Stephen Hawking.
我受邀到谈话性节目... I was invited onto chat shows...
好吧！我想大家都认为你是个天才， Well, I think people do think of you as a genius,
不只是个残障的天才 not just as a disabled genius.
...而且我还应邀客串演出星舰迷航记， ...and I've made a cameo appearance on Star Trek,
我最喜欢的科幻影集 my favourite sci-fi show.
-你在唬人！ -又错了！阿尔伯特！ - You are bluffing. - Wrong again, Albert!
我很喜欢成为媒体的宠儿 I enjoyed the media attention
而且目睹每天都有人参与瞭解 and witnessing everyday people getting more involved in understanding
宇宙的物理学 the physics of our universe.
但报纸马上就想要对我、我的病和我的家庭 But soon the press wanted to know more about me, my illness
知道更多详情 and my family life.
他要变成这个世界级的名人，他很喜欢这样 He wanted this worldwide celebrity, he enjoys that.
部分是因为他对生命及科学的观点，是很有趣的观点 Part of his whole outlook on life and his science is that it's fun
而且作为名人是很好玩的 and celebrity was fun
他欣然接受 and he embraced it
以一种对家庭和小孩并不是非常好的方式 in a way that was not necessarily very good for the family, the children.
所以这就会在婚姻之中产生了严重的现实问题 So this was a further real problem in the marriage.
我们全被名声和财富 We were engulfed and swept away
的涛天巨浪席卷而至... by this great wave of fame and fortune...
...而且我一定要说 ...and I have to say
这对我来说真的是让我穷于应付 that really it all got rather too much for me to cope with
而且我想只要我们停下来，就可以恢复到从前那样快乐 and I suppose that's when we ceased to be as happy as we had been
在婚姻破裂了 and when the marriage broke up
我觉得就好像一条小毛毯， I felt as if a rug,
不只是从我的脚边拉上来而已， not just had been pulled up from under my feet,
而是在毯子的下方，地面已经破了一个大洞，将我生吞活剥， but the earth had opened up under that rug and swallowed me up,
因为婚姻原来是我存在的理由呀！ because the marriage had been my raison d'etre.
而且要花一段不短的时间，我才能恢复辨识自我身份的感觉 And it took me quite a little while to recover my sense of my own identity.
我和珍的生活，很明显已经 It was clear that my life and Jane's
开始分道扬镳 were beginning to follow different paths.
1990年我们分居，1995年离婚 In 1990 we separated, and were divorced in 1995.
同一年，我宣布和伊莱恩?梅森订婚 In the same year, I announced my engagement to Elaine Mason
并且再婚 and married again.
从我开始24小时轮班照护， Elaine had been one of my nurses
伊莱恩就是其中的一名护士 from the start of my 24-hour wraparound care.
多年来，在珍和我渐离渐远之时，我们却愈来愈亲密， Over the years, we had become extremely close as Jane and I drifted apart,
我们都在新的关系中寻求慰藉和爱情 each seeking comfort and love through new relationships.
伊莱恩变得比其他护士还要亲密 Elaine became closer to Stephen than any of the other nurses.
当他要旅行时，他比较喜欢有她随侧照顾 When he travelled, he would prefer to have her with him over the others.
因此产生了亲密的关系 It became a close relationship.
我和伊莱恩的婚姻是热情而狂烈的 My marriage to Elaine was passionate and tempestuous.
她在好几个场合里救了我的命 She saved my life on several occasions
我们在一起十一年，直到2006年离婚为止 and we were together for 11 years, before divorcing in 2006.
关系降到冰点的原因是报纸刊载未经证实的指控 The low point was when the press printed unsubstantiated allegations
说我是家暴的受害者 that I had been the victim of domestic violence.
在我内心，这是卑鄙下流对我们隐私的侵犯 To my mind, this was a gross invasion of our privacy
对我们两个人而言，都是一段极具杀伤力的时间 and it was an extremely hurtful and damaging time for us both.
不幸地，在公众的注目下，事件没有挽回的馀地 Unfortunately, being in the public eye can have its drawbacks.
其实，身为公众人物也有好处的 Living a very public life does, however, have its upsides too.
工作上，我经常受邀，和名人分享 At work, I am often visited by famous people who share
在太空中的趣味和我们所在的宇宙 an interest in space and the universe we live in.
有时候，甚至连太空人都会来访 Sometimes, even astronauts drop by.
我的声音会被听见是因为我在四十三年前做的事 My voice is listened to because I did something 43 years ago
我是人类所能到达 and I have the sense of humans
外太空最远而且成功回来的人 reaching outward and succeeding,
但我相信他比我更有价值，因为 but I believe that he is valued more because
他的纯綷分析，结合了 he has the pure analytical combined with
来自于他 the philosophical
从宇宙的起源和终了 that comes from his understanding
的哲学性理解 of the beginnings and the ends of the universe.
我经常梦想自己可以在宇宙中旅行 I have often dreamt about travelling through space myself.
最近，我体会了零重力的飞行经验 Recently, I got closer by experiencing a zero gravity flight.
这也是一段可以把我的残障暂时去除的时刻， It was also a moment that temporarily stripped me of my disability
真正自由的感觉 a feeling of true freedom.
我相信像巴兹这样早期太空人，开疆闢土的努力 I believe the pioneering efforts of the early astronauts like Buzz
需要进阶到下个阶段 need to be taken onto the next level.
有一天，我被说服 I am convinced that one day
将来人类为了要生存一定要移民到别的行星 humans will have to colonise other planets in order to survive.
太空旅游会变成每天的必须品 Space travel will become an everyday necessity.
然后，我希望成为第一个 Until then, I hope to be one of the first ordinary people
飞往太空的普通人 to blast off into space.
但我需要一些帮忙 But I will need a little help.
我甚至会这样想，世上除史帝芬?霍金之外 I just couldn't think of anybody in the world
我不会想把其他人送到太空去 that we'd rather send to space than Stephen Hawking,
而且，你知道的，我们不能提供任何人免费的票， and, you know, we haven't offered anybody a free ticket,
但我们觉得，他就是世上我们想要，你知道的， but it was the one person in the world that we felt, you know,
邀请上太空的人之一 we'd love to invite you to space.
检查压力 Pressure check.
当他接受时，是很不可思议的，而且那天我到上面看他的时候 And it was incredible when he accepted and I went up and saw him that day
他要我快一点 and he told me to hurry up
把太空船给建好，因为他不可能永生不朽， and get the spaceship built because he wasn't going to live forever,
希望在隔年我们就能把他送上去，我想到这件事，你知道吗？ and hopefully next year we'll take him up and I think that, you know,
他觉得就像他自己上太空一样，他可以...帮我们带路 he feels that if he goes into space personally, he can... lead the way.
我这辈子就想要能够作太空旅行 My hopes for space travel have been with me throughout my life.
但就像我的轮子一样，紧紧固定在这里，在行星地球上， But as my wheels are still firmly planted here on Planet Earth,
这个梦，我会再继续梦下去 I will keep on dreaming.
我现在被视为所谓的「名人」， As I am now considered a so-called "famous" person,
愈来愈多的时间花在公众生活之中 more and more of my time is taken up with my public life.
因为这样，我非常仰赖我身边的团队 For this, I rely greatly upon my team around me.
你真的是扮演守门员的这个角色 You are really the gatekeeper in this role.
你收到一般粉丝的来信，很崇拜他，真的， You get the general fan mail, hero-worshipping him, really,
然后来信是对宗教和神 then you get people who are obsessed
的痴迷，而霍金教授并没有露出实情， with religion and God and the fact that Professor Hawking doesn't appear to have
像他们所拥有的神，可以从中得到慰藉， a god as such that they can, feel comfortable about,
所以你会有一大群我们称之为「上帝的信」， so you get a huge range of what we call the "god letters",
然后有从残障者的来信， and then you get letters from the disabled,
严肃的科学家－大部分的人 serious scientists - mostly people
对霍金教授和他所成就都溢美于辞 full of admiration for Professor Hawking and what he has achieved.
他是个伟大的偶像 He is a great iconic figure
而且他很喜欢自己的公众形象 and he enjoys his public appearances
你知道的，他依旧对他身边的所有事非常在意， and it's great that, you know, he's still very engaged
这是件很棒的事 with everything that surrounds him.
所以如果你要探索黑洞的内部， So if you want to explore the inside of a black hole,
要选大的那一个 choose a big one.
人们已经搜寻了许多这种质量的黑洞， People have searched for many black holes of this mass
至今都还没有找到任何一个 but have, so far, not found any.
这是件撼事，因为如果他们找到了，我就该得到一个诺贝尔奖 This is a pity because, if they had, I would have got a Nobel Prize.
如果你在四十年前问我 If you had asked me 40 years ago
我会不会想到在爆满的观众前面说话 if I ever thought I would be talking in front of a sell-out crowd
并成为流行文化的一部分，我一定会大笑不可能的 and be a part of popular culture, I would have laughed.
但如果我参与了我们当代的思潮 But if my getting involved with the zeitgeist that is upon us
激励人们对我们的宇宙提出疑问，那我没话说 has encouraged people to question our universe, then I am OK.
史帝芬?霍金！ Stephen Hawking!
- 世上最聪明的人 - 你来这里干嘛？ - The world's smartest man. - What are you doing here?
你要找麻烦的话，你看著办 If you are looking for trouble, you've found it.
是喔！你试试看，你... Yeah, just try me, you...
他愿意教导人们，用任何他可以用的方式来教导人们－ He's willing to teach people in whatever way he has to teach people -
你不必太过认真看待自己，无论你做的工作 you can't take yourself too seriously no matter how intelligent
有多聪明或多重要 or how important the work you're doing is.
-金的电话 -我的电话 - This is Jim's phone. - It's for me!
-多荣幸呀！你的电话。 -哈萝！ - It's such an honour. It's for you. - Hello!
无论什麽时候，我在做脱口秀时，我总是想要做出一些 Whenever I do a talk show, I'm trying to think of ways to do things
完全不一样和完全荒谬的事 that are completely different and completely ridiculous.
大多数的人都看过「阿呆与阿瓜」，他们会认为那就是我， Most people see "Dumb & Dumber" and they assume that that's who I am,
所以我在想，「好吧！这样会不会很讚，像是...和世上」 so I thought, "Well, wouldn't it be wonderful to, like, partner up
「最聪明的人合作表演？」 "with the smartest man on the Earth?"
抱歉！ Excuse me!
哈萝 Hello.
哈萝！金，我是史帝芬
海！史帝芬?霍金！我不敢相信！ Hi, Stephen Hawking! I can't believe it!
他人很好，真的很棒！ He was wonderful. He was just fantastic.
我会想他是个很严以律己的人 I was expecting him to be so serious about himself
而且，我想这可以让他放轻鬆 and, I think it was a relief for him
...完成整场笑闹的演出 to... completely make fun of the whole thing.
我只想打电话给你，告诉你
我真的很快乐，知道你对
新的薄膜宇宙学感到兴趣
真令人惊奇！ It's amazing.
但不要因为要解释而感到困扰
他们像豆大般的脑袋是无法理解的
这个世界的
是呀！我懂的 Yeah, I know.
他把我写的对话表演得非常好 He did a great job of doing the lines that I'd written
...他非常卖力演出 ...and he was just gung ho the whole time.
嗯！我要走了！
好！ OK.
我正忙著看「阿呆与阿瓜」
我非常激赏如火纯青的才华
你真是个天才！
不，你才是天才！ No, you're a genius!
不！你才是！
No! You are!
之后我们作了一些例行性的表演，我们之间建立了某种友谊， After we did the routine, we kind of struck up a friendship,
所以我受邀到他家 so I was invited to his home
晚上最搞笑的亮点之一 and one of the funny highlights of the night
...是当我们正在吃晚餐 ...was that while we were having dinner
我要他，你知道，只为了拍张相片， I asked him, you know, just for a picture,
「你可以用你的轮椅碾过我的脚吗？」 "Could you run over my foot with your wheelchair?"
就这样...所以我有了这张极痛苦表情之类的相片， And that... So I have a picture of me grimacing in agony and stuff,
所以那天真的很棒，可以在那里，和他聊聊天，真的很棒！ so it was wonderful, wonderful to be there, wonderful to talk to him
可以问他重要的问题，像是 and ask him important questions like,
「要多少个希格斯玻色子才能塞进一个灯泡里呢？」 "How many Higgs-Boson does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
而且，我想他还在为那个问题伤脑筋 And, I think he's still struggling with that.
小心！ Look out!
这有著许多乐趣，也很奇怪 It has been a lot of fun and also very strange
看著自己被那麽多种方式来描述， to see myself depicted in so many ways,
但最奇怪的是 but perhaps the strangest is to have had
由演员演出，用来描述我幼年生活 part of my early life portrayed by an actor.
我觉得我有责任让他的生活有一部分是正确的 I felt a huge onus of responsibility to get that part of his life right.
在他的身上发生了这麽多事 There was so much that happened to him.
这是很恐怖的观点 It's a terrifying prospect
一个完全正常的心灵，被禁锢在一个 to have a completely functioning mind inside a body
残破的身体里，这个身体让你动弹不得 that locks you in, that keeps you stationary.
我想要更正其中一项是表达他的病程 One of the things I wanted to get right was to show the stages
的各个阶段和不稳定的病情及恐惧是来自何处 of the progression of his condition and where the instability and fear came from.
浅而易见的道理，像是翱翔在阶梯的最顶端， The very obvious details, such as being at the top of a flight of stairs,
突然间变成了最巨大的障碍， that suddenly becomes the most enormous obstacle,
坠落到凹凸不平的地面上－那些易伤的情感呀！ being on any sort of uneven ground - those feelings of vulnerability.
他绝对禁欲 He's incredibly stoic.
我想在他更年轻的时候也可能就是这样了！ I think that was probably the case when he was younger as well.
我想他准备干活了，而且持续不懈， I think he rolled up his sleeves and got on with it,
并见到了成果 and look at the results.
我是说，不证自明的－ I mean, it's self-evident -
这个人变成了，最複杂思绪的代言人 the man became, a spokesperson for the most complex ideas.
好，史帝芬，我们要帮你 Right, Stephen, we're going to put
戴上帽子，这样你就不会弄湿了 your hat on you, so you don't get wet.
皮带绕了一圈，所以帽子可以戴好 The straps go round, so it holds the hat on.
-看看你！ -他觉得我们很坏！ - Look at you! - He thinks we're mean.
「你戴了顶帽子？」「是呀！黑帮的帽子」 "Have you got a hat?" "Yeah, gangster hat."
是唐！ It's the Don!
成为公众人物的一项好处就是 One advantage of being a public figure
做点不一样的事 is being asked to do special things.
今天我在奥林匹克运动会开幕式的中心舞台上 Today I am centre stage at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics Games
这麽做是份荣耀 and it's an honour to do so.
从文明初露曙光， Ever since the dawn of civilisation,
我们就渴望理解世界上的基本规则 people have craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world.
关于宇宙边界情况应该有某些东西是 There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions
非常特别的... of the universe...
...而且有什麽会比没有边界更特别的呢？ ...and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?
人类的努力应该没有边界 And there should be no boundary to human endeavour.
奥林匹克运动会就是要改变我们对世界的看法 The Paralympic Games are all about transforming our perception of the world.
我们是独一无二的 We are all different.
没有什麽是标准或严选的人类， There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being,
我们全都共享人类的灵魂 but we share the same human spirit.
然而生命也许艰难， However difficult life may seem,
但世上总有些事能够去做和成就的 there is always something you can do and succeed at.
运动项目是提供机会让运动选手去超越的， The Games provide an opportunity for athletes to excel,
倾全力成就运动场上的辉煌 to stretch themselves and become outstanding in their field.
所以让我们一起庆祝完美、友谊和尊重 So let us together celebrate excellence, friendship and respect.
祝各位好运！ Good luck to you all.
天哪！ Goodness!
在这颗美妙的星球上生活了七十一年， Having lived on this wonderful planet for over 71 years,
我最感到自豪的成就是启发人们 I feel my proudest achievement has been to inspire people
去想想关系宇宙的事和我们在其中的地位 to think about the cosmos and our place in it.
因为我不相信有来生， Since I believe there is no afterlife,
所以我想警觉生命的短暂和 I think it's important to realise
并把生命发挥得淋漓尽致是很重要的一件事 we only have a very short time alive and should make the best of it.
今天，我可以和家人和朋友共享时光... Today, I enjoy time together with family and friends...
...儘管我的残缺 ...and despite my disabilities
我总是对宇宙的奥秘保持著好奇心 I'll always keep wondering about the mysteries of the universe.
史帝芬从二十岁发病 Stephen's been ill since he was 20.
你已到残烛之年 You come to terms with the impending bereavement
然后乍然惊觉，一点也不是终点的逼近 and then suddenly find that it's not that impending after all.
我可以确定他想要知道的还多得很 I'm sure there's plenty more he'd like to know about.
真的到了问题的终点有多麽可怕 Think how awful it would be to come to the end of questions.
直到把他深埋地底...否则史帝芬会继续下去的 Stephen will carry on until they... push him underground.
你的心思就是停不下来 You don't just stop your mind.
我想史帝芬一定有办法活下去的 Stephen's always had this determination to survive, I guess,
每次史帝芬病危时，我总是会想 and every time Stephen gets critically ill, I always think
「喔！亲爱的，我希望」你知道的，「他可以撑得过这一次的，」 "Oh, dear, I hope," you know, "he's going to get through this time,"
他总是撑过去了！ and he always does.
他必须要有活下去的强大意念 He's just got this tremendous determination to live
而且我的确相信一定有一件事让他有意愿活下去的 and I do think there is such a thing as the will to live.
让他长期存活有几个要素 There are several components to his long survival.
首先是他，深不见底的潜力， One is that he's, by a very large margin,
是我见过最顽强的人 the most stubborn person I've ever met.
他是极少数的人之一 He is one of those very few people
那种可以看见现代知识最极限边界的人 who can see far beyond the borders of current knowledge
并且瞭解事情如何运作和为其他人的研究 and see how things really work and set the directions
确定方向，和试图去证明他是对或错 for other people's research and attempts to prove him right or wrong.
从破碎的婚姻恢复过来，真的很难、很难 To recover from a broken marriage, it was very, very difficult.
起初，我们还有联络... At first, we were in touch...
...但接著就变得非常、非常困难， ...but then it got very, very difficult,
最近，我们已经可以互相联繫 but, lately, we have been able to associate.
我可能在每两週一次会打电话给他 I call on him perhaps once a fortnight.
和史帝芬生活的那些日子占了我人生的极大的一部分 All those years with Stephen were a huge part of my life.
是我的青春岁月 They were my young years.
他们是我的孩子 They were my children.
我不能只想把那些从记忆当中抹去，而且我也不愿意 And I can't just wipe those from the record, and I wouldn't want to.
会随著时光会渐渐的淡去消失 It would be self-destructive to wipe those away
我非常，非常以史帝芬的成就为豪 and I'm very, very proud of what Stephen has done.
生命带给我有好有坏 Life has thrown at me both good times and bad.
可能是人的天性，我们会适应并且活下来 Perhaps it is human nature that we adapt and survive.
至于我呢？ As for me,
早就和死神打交道，过了大半辈子 I have lived with the prospect of an early death most of my life.
我并不害怕死亡，但也没必要急著死掉 I am not afraid of dying, but I'm in no hurry to die.
我还有很多想做的事和第一次发现的事 I have so much I want to do and find out first.
所以，现在嘛... So, for now...
...再见，感谢各位来参与，综观我的世界的这趟旅程 ...goodbye and thank you for coming on a journey through my world.