生命的意义

Love and honor,right and wrong

爱情与荣耀 对与错

are part of the universe we create in our minds

都是我们心中建立的宇宙的一部分

just as a table,a planet or a galaxy.

就像一张桌子 一颗星球 或者一个星系

It's pretty remarkable to think that our brains.

很难想象 我们的大脑

which are essentially a collection of particles working to the laws of physics...

基本上就是依据物理定律运作的众多粒子

have this wonderful ability to not only perceive reality.

竟拥有这种奇妙的能力 不仅能感知现实世界

but to give it meaning,too.

更能赋予它意义

The meaning of life is what you choose it to be.

生命的意义为何 全由你来选择

Personally,I like to think that it is everyone of us that gives meaning to the universe.

个人来说 我很乐意 我们每一个人都赋予宇宙意义

We are,as cosmologist Carl Sagan once said:

我们是 如宇宙学家卡尔·萨根所说

The universe contemplating itself.

我们是宇宙对自己的省思

Meaning can only ever exist within the confines of the human mind.

意义只能存在于人类心智的架构内

And in this way,the meaning of life is not somewhere out there.

如此一来 生命的意义就不在外面某处

but right between our ears.

而是在我们的脑海里

In many ways,this makes us The Lords of Creation.

就许多方面来说 我们也因此成了万物之灵

重点讲解

1、universe

宇宙

Einstein's equations showed the Universe to be expanding.

爱因斯坦的方程式表明宇宙正在膨胀。

Early astronomers thought that our planet was the centre of the universe.

早期的天文学家认为我们的星球是宇宙的中心。

经验领域

Good writers suck in what they see of the world, recreating their own universe on the page.

优秀的作家从他们眼中的世界汲取体验，然后在纸上重塑自己的天地。

They marked out the boundaries of our visual universe.

他们标出了我们视觉经验领域的界限。

全天下，宇宙万物中（最）

According to my friends I am the coolest, thinnest, cleverest, funniest journalist in the universe.

我的朋友说我是全天下最酷、最瘦、最聪明、最幽默的记者。

2、perceive

注意到，察觉，意识到（尤指不明显之物）

A key task is to get pupils to perceive for themselves the relationship between success and effort.

关键任务是让学生们自己认识到成功和努力之间的关系。

'Precisely what other problems do you perceive?' she asked.

“你究竟还发现了什么问题？”她问道。

看作；视为；认为

Stress is widely perceived as contributing to coronary heart disease.

压力被广泛认为是导致冠心病的一个因素。

They strangely perceive television as entertainment.

奇怪的是，他们居然将电视看作娱乐。