S01E07 The Self Destruct Button Okay, anyone who says you can sleep when you die,tell them to come talk to me after a few months as an intern,of course,it’s not just the job that keeps us up all night,I mean,if life’s so hard already, why do we bring more trouble down on ourselves?What’s up with the need to hit the self-destruct button? 好吧,谁要是说你死的时候可以睡觉,让他去当几个月实习医生后再和我说。当然,让我们彻夜不眠的不只是工作。我说,要是生活已经那么艰难,我们为什么还要自找烦恼?按下自我毁灭按钮会怎么样呢? Maybe we like the pain,maybe we are wired that way. Because without it,I don’t know, maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying,"Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer?"Because it feels so good when I stop. 也许我们喜欢痛苦,也许我们沉迷于痛苦,因为没有了痛苦,怎么说呢,我们就会感到不真实,那句话怎么说来着,"为什么我总是搬石头砸自己的脚呢?"因为当你停下来的时候,那感觉真是好极了。
S01E08 Save Me You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales?That fantasy of what your life would be white dress,prince charming who’d carry you away to a castle on a hill,You’d lie in bed at night and close your eyes.and you had complete and utter faith--santa claus,the tooth fairy,prince charming--they were so close,you could taste them.But eventually you grow up.One day you open your eyes,and the fairy tale disappears.Most people turn to the things and people they can trust.But the thing is it’s hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely. Cause almost everyone still has that smallest bit of hope--of faith.that one day they’ll open their eyes,and it’ll all come true. 你知道当你还是个孩子时,你有多么相信童话吗?那些对于未来生活的美好幻想——一袭白色长裙,被白马王子带去山上的城堡。晚上,你躺在床上闭起眼睛,坚定不移地相信着圣诞老人、小牙仙、白马王子,他们近在咫尺似乎你触手可及。但最后,你还是会长大。某一天,你睁开眼睛,童话世界就消失不见了。大多数人向他们信赖的人或事物求助。但问题是,我们很难完全放弃对童话的执念。因为大多数人仍然心存一丝希望,一丝信念,相信自己某天睁开眼睛,童话真的可以变成现实。At the end of the day,faith is a funny thing.It turns up when you don’t really expect it.It’s like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed.The castle,well,it may not be a castle.And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after.Just that it’s happy right now.See,once in a while,once in a blue moon,people will surprise you.And once in a while people may even take your breath away. 说到底,信念是个有趣的东西。当你不抱希望时,它会悄然出现。就好像有一天,你意识到童话故事也许和你想象的有所出入,至于城堡,也许并不是个城堡,永远幸福好像也不是那么重要,只要当下快乐就好。看吧,有时候,也许千载难逢,人们也会给你惊喜。而有时候,人们会让你惊喜到不能呼吸。
S02E10 Much Too Much When you were a kid, it was Halloween candy. You hid it from your parents and ate it until you got sick. In college it was the heady combo of youth, tequila and well you know As a surgeon you take as much of the good as you can get because it doesn’t come around nearly as often as it should. Cause good things aren’t always what they seem. Too much of anything, even love is not always a good thing. 当你还是个小孩的时候,你喜欢万圣节的糖果。你从父母那骗来糖果并藏起来,然后一直吃到恶心。大学生是激情兴奋的组合,年轻、龙舌兰酒还有好吧……你知道的。作为一个医生,要尽可能的做到完美,因为改正错误的机会并不常见。因为好事情并不像它看起来那样,什么东西太多了,即使是爱情,也不会永远那样美好。 How do you know how much is too much? Too much, too soon. Too much information. Too much fun. Too much love. Too much to ask. And when is it all just too much to bear? 你如何知道多少才是太多?太多太快,太多信息,太多乐趣,太多的爱,太多的问题要解答,那些太多的东西需要承受的时候。
S02E11 Owner of a Lonely Heart Forty years ago, The Beatles asked the world a simple question. They wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely the surgical wings of hospitals. As surgeons we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people’s friends and families. Which means that at the end of the day all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that 四十年前,披头士问了世界一个简单的问题。他们想知道哪些孤独的人来自哪里。我的最新理论是,很多孤独的人都来自医院,更确切的说来自外科病区。作为医生,我们忽略我们自己的需要,所以我们才能满足病人的需要。我们忽略了自己的朋友和家人,所以我们可以拯救其他人的朋友和家人。这意味着,在每一天结束时,我们只有我们自己,在这个世界上,没有比这个更让人感到孤独。 400 years ago another well known English guy had an opinion about being alone. John Donne. He thought we were never alone. Of course it was fancier when he said it. No man is an island entire into himself. Boil down that island talk and he just mean that all anyone needs is someone to step in. And let us know we’re not alone. And who’s to say that someone can’t have 4 legs. Someone to play with or run around with. Or just hang out. 400年前另一个著名的英国人约翰唐恩有一个关于孤独的观点。他认为我们从来都不会孤独,当然,他说这句话的时候听起来更美好。没有人是完全孤立的岛屿,归结到底,岛屿也能说话。他的意思是每个人都需要有人陪,让我们知道我们不是孤单一人。谁说一个人不能有四条腿,一个人玩或是跑,或是只是在一起。
S02E12 Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer It’s an urban myth that suicide rates spike at the holidays. Turns out they actually go down. Experts think is because people are less inclined to off themselves when surrounded by family. Ironically, that same family togetherness is thought to be the reason depression rates actually do spike at the holidays. 有个现象一直是个谜,自杀率在假期里急剧上升,按理说应该是下降的。专家认为,这是因为人们在家人身边时,一般不会倾向于自杀。而具有讽刺意味的是,同样是家庭团聚,却被认为是正抑郁率升高的原因。 There’s an old proverb that says you can’t choose your family. You take what the fates hand you, and like them or not, love them or not, understand them or not, you cope. Then there’s the school of thought that says the family you’re born into is simply a starting point. They feed you and clothe you, and take care of you until you ready to go out into the world, and find your tribe. 有句古老的谚语这样说,你无法选择你的家人,无论你喜欢与否,爱与否,理解与否,你都得接受命运的安排。还有一些人认为,你出生的家庭仅仅是个起点,他们养育你照顾你,直到你准备好走进这个世界,找到你的同伴。