摘要：不到半小时（每秒16个镜头，总共27.4分钟），你就看完了自己在72年里的“兴衰”。
The most touching sentence,motivate onesrlf for a lifetime.
最动人的一段话，激励自己一生。
Cherrish the present moment,Live every second well.
珍惜当下，过好每一秒。
Imagine that you spent your whole life at a single house.
设想一下，你一辈子都住在一栋房子里。
Each day at the same hour you entered an artificially-lit room,
每天同一时间，你都会进入一个人工照明的房间，
undressed and took up the same positioning in front of a moton picture camera.
脱去衣服，在摄影机前摆同一姿势。
It photographed one frame of you per day,
摄影机每天为你拍摄一帧照片，
every day of your life.
在你一生所有的日子里。
On your seventy-second birthday,
在你七十二岁生日那天，
the reel of film was shown.
放映这部影片。
You saw yourself growing and aging over seventy-two years in less than half an hour (27.4 minutes at sixteen frames per second).
不到半小时（每秒16个镜头，总共27.4分钟），你就看完了自己在72年里的“兴衰”。
Imahes of this sort,
此类图像，
though terrifying,
虽然很可怕，
are helpful in suggesting unfamiliar but useful perspectives of time.
却能向我们说明那陌生而有用的时间概念。
They may,for example,
例如，他们可能，
symbolize the telescoped,
比方说，它们可能象征着转瞬即逝的过去的缩影，
almost momentary character of the past as seen through the eyes of an anxious or disaffected individual.
如同在一个忧心忡忡或愤愤不平的人眼中所见的那样。
Or they may suggest the remarkable brevity of our lives in the cosmic scale of time.
或者，它们可能表明我们的生命在宇宙的时间里，我们的生命异常短暂。
If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years,
如果将宇宙的估计年龄缩短到72年，
a human life would take aabut ten seconds.
一个人的生命大约需要10秒钟。
But look at time the other way.
但是从另一个角度看时间。
Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000seconds.
每一天都是一个小小的永恒，超过86000秒。
During each second,
每一秒钟，
the number of disinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos.
人体内所进行的不同的分子作用的次数可以与宇宙估计年龄中的秒钟数相比。
A few seconds are long cnough for a revolutionary idea,
对于一个革命性的想法，几秒钟是很长的时间，
a startling communication,
进行一次惊人的沟通，
a bady's conception,
孕育一个婴孩，
a wounding insult,
制造一次伤人的侮辱，
a sudden death,
造成一起突然死亡事件，
Depcnding on how we think of them,
这取决于我们怎么看待这一切，
our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.
我们的寿命可以是无限长久，也可以是极其短暂。
By R.Grudin
R.格鲁丁
Benjamin Franklin
Do you love life?
你热爱生命吗？
So don't waste your time,
那么不要浪费时间，
Because life is made up of time.
因为生命是由时间构成的。
来源：正道旅游