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： 0 x7 Q# g/ F/ h2 E" e ( E, r! a$ o9 J9 s" B% r生命就是小甜饼：3 P) w* D7 E0 g
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. * g# m G% f, [, G+ e! n7 |: {; P9 y |1 y( c( D8 v# v: ~
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”。 / f) ^; k8 d2 L/ C6 ]& \/ b3 _; u+ y( o * L, Q+ f2 o0 R: o- T- i) }+ p0 hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. R7 L6 }( Z& p* u! f9 F/ S X4 K) u4 w# t( s. e
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。 8 M' S0 B" i- O4 a9 Y8 |: e' u& a: Z, w6 s
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. 4 S9 `% @1 W: X4 x 1 D* F6 z5 S" K! i# 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。/ r( S7 Y' n* L a2 q
2 c: P* p. b8 C' CA 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. $ O4 \2 Y( {* v ^' z9 s8 A U H
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。 0 ~% q! t$ [ E; b s# l0 o c3 G2 s5 X6 n+ i" r6 v. S: J$ V# F
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + m# R/ n+ X6 w$ { S - v8 @9 \) o2 T. i* U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。3 i5 j6 V' M# {" W j6 y7 f
3 A$ C" ^% T0 `& T+ PBut 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. - B& H$ N: N3 I1 b9 m: `9 t& x3 Z3 W4 r
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。' b* D( R) ]: F( I$ W8 }, p H
) u7 c5 l- N' \6 N8 F. u, QThe 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. - _0 g' q9 u4 f- k: u: w 9 ]2 g, F4 d* C% N5 [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 N6 r/ i; e& S, G4 b5 O+ R; t, Q
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. , y# g K; Q( h
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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。6 H: I4 j) U+ p: j9 ?
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* l; _ k8 w' t/ l& j. e4 x. Y' m
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 I6 T. Q W6 Q1 O0 E 6 N$ C# J d& n0 ^Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ P1 D# c1 h! B: Y' p6 G / _7 U5 s, J* l" ?; V" b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。- ?( F0 D/ z! {# G; o9 Z
( r3 N; m5 h. xFor 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. " ! n2 \! O1 ?+ J' A4 z9 n7 Z' M, m$ v8 ^7 X
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。9 ^9 O3 F4 G3 }, C0 t! W
% r1 T& T7 O2 I6 \/ ?, h; G$ DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , b9 L9 v' J, ? % A: Q+ {2 J# j* F1 T1 z; Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " _) i8 n! c. j' H, X: L. N' V5 J. d& L, F/ I& m7 X
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." ! X9 Q* p5 d- }% j! r 7 a' @3 s6 i- w* W9 Q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”。. p4 H. n* X0 V
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