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： + O0 r! e* y2 v1 ? 2 F: J; ^* h) i+ O3 s) b生命就是小甜饼：4 U. K, X. `( P
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.5 f/ k, q& O$ S$ T% s/ T
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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”。: p# D( k! ?, W6 D D, {
+ @7 R: C* S6 \; ~) B& v+ JIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. W1 J# \* L' ?4 E5 ?
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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。& z6 o) f+ s# w5 J G! U
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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.6 F/ l; H6 U! ]+ [6 M
( M" c8 x7 @8 d6 w! g( }: v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。5 D7 y+ s+ a2 \1 R
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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. . J4 M, B8 z* W% w" n 4 D, f) M$ c' ^" K- T1 [3 x* I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。 4 d: Z, U" }* m & G; N2 L5 M8 h8 }% N+ r8 p9 }When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( h, M! a! J; K5 d: f. e
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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 Q' O: S4 G5 q( A/ T+ v9 y- i: ~4 k" s; r' E2 E$ u
But 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.0 ~( S' g4 Z. N l6 o6 H: o
! m8 w' F, ~6 m9 {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。 0 n4 \% {8 Y4 r * C/ G9 ^7 i/ F' A8 nThe 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. 8 S' X4 M" V" `: W2 N" F1 R; e4 h3 I5 l9 W4 G' V
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。" C: \( K( D0 ]. S& m6 g0 v/ W
R$ `# Y& \! [( R- i4 H; UYou 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. # j4 P; A* `8 ?% D" n
0 y/ S5 O2 B# Q+ \+ u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。' r \# ]* M8 N
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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.* S! c% F' m: Z4 J9 J, k) T
! E7 d8 y& P8 x2 M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ ?! S3 M- b& p2 F8 F7 M) C
4 f; s6 h3 X! t Z) DHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) L7 H; D2 D! \ F7 V' g7 x, i" U 1 N( J0 E' `5 |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。" A, w. S* {" d0 c, \$ l
; e4 ^ R9 Y, `" a8 ^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. "( i5 {8 k4 J- t1 E
3 U, b/ O d1 `( d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。 : E7 n9 s6 {+ |8 @" A* t4 s9 Q5 c9 ]8 I
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ R$ X; {; L( u9 t$ X1 ?* S: O- f7 I' z6 I1 v: l& l3 s
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。) \5 q% C+ Z! @1 ^; g
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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." l. B, n, {8 d, Q9 R7 T, H
0 O+ j+ ]+ S" C& N) a$ s9 R0 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”。" p, j0 g( v) |' S- S
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