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One sunny afternoon, when he wasn't feeling well, Jobs sat in the garden behind his house and reflected on death.
一个阳光灿烂的下午，他感觉不太舒服，他坐在屋后的花园里，思考死亡。
He talked about his experiences in India almost four decades earlier,
他谈到将近40年前他在印度的经历，
his study of Buddhism, and his views on reincarnation and spiritual transcendence.
他对佛法的研习，以及他对转世和精神超越的看法。
"I'm about fifty-fifty on believing in God," he said.
“我对上帝的信仰是一半一半，”他说。
"For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye."
“我一生中的大部分时间，都认为一定有超出我们所见的存在。”
He admitted that, as he faced death, he might be overestimating the odds out of a desire to believe in an afterlife.
他承认，当他面临死亡时，他可能更愿相信存在来世。
"I like to think that something survives after you die," he said.
“我愿意认为，在一个人死后有些什么东西依然存在，”他说。
"It's strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away.
“如果你积累了所有这些经验，可能还有一点智慧，然后这些就这么消失了，会有些怪怪的。
So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures."
所以我真的愿意相信，会有些什么东西留存下来，也许你的意识会不朽。”
He fell silent for a very long time.
他沉默了很长时间。
"But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone."
“但是另一方面，也许就像个开关一样，”他说。“啪！然后你就没了。”
Then he paused again and smiled slightly.
他又停下来，淡然一笑。
"Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices."
“也许这就是为什么我从不喜欢给苹果产品加上开关吧。”
