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： ?- ~5 g+ V4 J: T( }5 K
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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. 2 ~1 a' t1 U. A* l7 o8 W% x& m0 I& `0 M& z1 ^/ z$ `
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”。 3 d9 s$ c' f0 R" V, T0 {/ ^ ! V. ]% q: w# @# _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. i' }9 V, z" j7 u7 y5 c. C; S & P9 p+ ~9 r/ e; V i" S, m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。4 g+ B) S- \+ o @- y9 @; R- _$ J% D
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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. 8 I: ?1 }, G% _ ; Y8 I0 F3 X+ Q4 g2 Y/ m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。 ; V+ |$ ^4 Y, z % p/ Q+ l& W1 f" `: `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.0 x2 @( f2 h* N3 `- K' }( K
, \# M" |1 K$ A9 e% a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。 : F" C ~2 }% ^+ I : }. j- Y) f9 N& g3 tWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 `/ \" T- c+ E9 q, f
7 }. J; e0 e, c/ y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。! i% [* Z* p0 @1 b( O( g
# c# @8 [/ {+ I5 tBut 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. " G% I8 S/ P" D. g) C% n$ E0 q8 v: a6 P- Q" J' c; @, g
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。 : D# q3 c# e) D4 k* i# n . k" g" p! v( Y5 ^$ xThe 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. ) o' N s/ s9 T+ w , Z$ F5 l, u- S3 {$ P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。3 q* H2 G# k$ a# k! Y1 R
9 j+ A' `1 }$ o9 P; Z- i9 ~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. 6 }' c1 q& V. {+ Q# g! t% m/ Z4 e+ z1 s& w4 e
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。 , Z' `* a% t9 m* ?4 ]8 g3 B' p7 ^# r1 v! C+ a
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. - _* m( M' j, }9 s! h+ ^" y: {& P# o$ N3 a
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 J% L. \( B! }" e4 g6 k 1 t, h7 H9 E' B& W3 k Q9 @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# c/ {+ F4 y5 r+ f6 M8 L2 s% {
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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。8 T2 Y- z8 B+ z2 y
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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. " 9 ^* l! i& b" a9 i2 {: ^2 w! Y6 A, t. ` {! ~1 [
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。1 v( j8 x- q; H' K* K; v
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . @- g# F- s V/ q' o& L 3 F& O7 y+ z' R, k- o2 l% A“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 c5 V0 o& `! M4 o2 A3 {8 i+ e; w! j" x5 a6 |+ D, ^& N
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." 0 }/ e4 ?" J6 I* f. w" A" e w: V4 |- E' c
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”。5 I* Q9 j3 ~5 w7 e8 v