标题: 生命就是小甜品 [打印本页] 作者: 173110223泮斐飞 时间: 2017-11-15 19:44 标题: 生命就是小甜品 大学英语美文摘录： + {) n! C' ]0 d, @: N2 _% y1 j4 a E! H9 H, O7 f/ Y
生命就是小甜饼： . {4 P. v! x v% k) \One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. Happiness was "having the cookie." If you had the cookie, things were good.1 |, m/ a/ w, L& R9 y" I
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我有一位病人，他是一个成功的商人，告诉我，在他患癌症之前，凡事如果没有确定下来他就忧心忡忡。对他而言，幸福是“拥有小甜饼”。 5 l( Y4 q0 T% X$ _* v/ c! a & ]# i" G& {% M6 F! }! R& dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ W: _( [. [6 _% i- y
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如果你拥有了小甜饼，一切都一帆风顺。如果你没有小甜饼，生活就一文不值。3 o6 b8 r% M6 Q3 {' E8 D3 o5 t
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Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address.2 A: _) m$ {0 t! p+ V
4 o" S8 [) l$ h5 o- r3 }不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。$ q7 D" x. y4 w/ x' ]0 ]
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A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. , t* C+ Z U! r5 P/ P) D6 `/ \3 c" S6 u: Z$ |
在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。 1 I% e+ d" C2 b7 I/ [# o; U, }7 Z8 T- k5 _
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ) ~. T* k7 {7 {. f% N7 E' [7 t. t4 s" o
当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。4 k% `2 P" q/ F5 o& z
9 O Q8 Q [& H- I/ Z% SBut he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long. 2 R. M2 [' I3 q; z/ p0 ~2 N8 ]/ z( ? ) Z o& d$ X7 h- `0 P0 H不同的是，他只有两岁半，而我已经 43 了。我花了这么长的时间才明白小甜饼并不能使我长久感到幸福。 8 I; Z- g8 i" @6 F) y! ]( ?- h: U& M
The minute you have the cookie it starts to crumble or you start to worry about it crumbling or about someone trying to take it away from you.3 D6 u/ e; f* G3 _. J
) N" v0 J& o, V Z; s1 \3 F+ ^从你拥有小甜饼的那一刻，它就开始破碎，或者你就开始担心它会破碎，抑或你开始担心别人拿走它。 B2 C1 L D B) Z
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You know, you have to give up a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be sure that no one takes it away from you. ' | X/ |0 ?' C% E" Z
! ?4 t# H5 G- J5 T为了守护你的小甜饼，为了防止它破碎或者确定别人不会从你手中夺走它，你不得不放弃许多东西。: K( _3 m) J; h1 D
1 b1 p$ X2 d% _( \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 C a" z/ \! O5 e# q) _
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 X) n% T2 ?1 o+ r) k$ r, s- a. P* `- \$ r: M
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- }1 [+ G" ?# n6 Y0 y8 F1 R
$ K- \) i# ~$ _9 g/ y( P拥有小甜饼并不是生活的全部内容。”我的病人笑着说癌症已经改变了他。 1 B( [* \! W7 M* H$ |4 P! j$ W: U9 Q1 ]- G* x' r# Z5 {
For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. "6 ?# O. Y L% o9 f' e# u9 M/ y
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不论他的生意是否一帆风顺，不论他在打高尔夫球时是输是赢，他有生以来第一次感到幸福。6 F$ j8 T H# w8 A
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. M. h7 R/ Q7 K9 U5 ^
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 , J2 D; x+ k# R- W" \1 G) `" ~5 _6 g5 Y; s
Life. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to do with the cookie; it has to do with being alive. Before, who made the time?" He pauses thoughtfully. "Damn, I guess life is the cookie."$ s+ l' H4 S( {9 z- c) ]
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生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。6 Z S0 U, c! N$ y# g* T( L; a3 Y