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：8 {$ v6 T; ]" p' ~- f+ Q0 u
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生命就是小甜饼：) _0 m1 t) ^8 t5 I7 |
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. / ~* i! n& W8 ` j% K+ v4 w" r7 v" @2 {* U1 {" o
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”。 4 C4 c) u7 F! O$ b6 a# y) Q& H' U2 ^# Y" v2 Z
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 G8 f! {3 j; _3 D1 P8 e
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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。( r; e& q7 y; X! G/ B$ A# m
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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. + ]) x3 Q. Y2 _6 I R; M1 T3 z1 D$ \9 q, ^, [1 F( p
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' }1 W- \; v" L$ N$ @4 t( d
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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. ' u5 M2 p# H( K/ Q3 a6 \4 Z2 P/ F1 U0 Y* 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。 9 F# l* `. M* Z * y% T8 R* N, T- k$ w8 mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' L/ ^& }; ^6 n ]0 Y% G$ C7 {
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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。 0 \ j2 g+ {7 s4 p0 V/ S 5 i2 X) _/ ^9 O ZBut 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. * d3 C4 O) J6 |5 P2 C ( f/ B h* p+ Q) O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。 * S; Q9 s. B; C " j2 z, A* J' @8 _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." ^( ]9 k0 d7 P- o l
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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 s7 n- C9 u4 f) K N P2 P5 ]- n9 b6 |
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. & M6 c1 y A7 s7 h4 Y3 U! h % v9 D* O3 k: H- E. T9 j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, u; E9 e4 B* F3 H# F , |5 a0 o; V7 l9 O5 T- bYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 k, v+ Z. {) M8 I: j4 q* o
7 L: c& K9 h n# Q1 z" _5 y1 z# B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ u9 U3 n: L3 l$ R+ ]
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., r, k+ G3 ~7 ]6 f
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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。 : m- v7 E: `6 V @3 D . ~0 V% ?/ y! Y& i+ d% dFor 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. "/ W0 V2 c9 [7 |7 z$ f1 }% s* E0 _
5 e; D9 D' t$ M0 m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。 % Z# h! n" f7 ?6 B1 M . h1 \- @/ u* S. G; B9 ZTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + o4 }6 Q4 y, M+ e6 S% L- g! l8 ?2 G" [
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 + z, e7 n+ ^, U' K! x' _6 l) M, n. i. {0 b" J3 ]7 \7 V6 h
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."' v3 v: R1 K' g) N$ [9 n h& Z
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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”。" K- K; t: F, v, z9 D
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