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： ) H8 U0 d6 y4 f" s2 b: ?, v; y* u, L3 t
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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. U; ~$ ~3 E7 ~ _! T" {, P6 Z, P
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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 ]8 n$ H( ]4 |5 F2 J. l1 C8 ]8 `4 r" h: R7 S; l0 L6 q1 M4 K
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' u. i: c2 | Y: Q8 {
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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。 - ?, k2 {8 n1 Z7 ` - L2 B! L" m& u( D( T' P2 MSome 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 P: Y P; ~( l7 S8 v7 y# x' }- X4 q3 @- ~
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。3 m4 A+ u2 k" e0 m0 U, d( O8 Y- S
: c) @0 b; `! V4 oA 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. ( w& H) G/ r% i9 R. U$ O+ d% J! n9 q, l2 |% H, U
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。 5 N5 K2 J1 e6 K- h0 B, H7 `6 ?+ X ! U* e+ p- j$ w& l* ?8 cWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 P! C1 W9 r8 Y
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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。! [# d) A6 M- c2 Z
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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. 9 P$ Z; V+ e: ]6 _1 @4 M& s; p9 k3 O K2 @) m7 k! t
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。- f! m1 {& Y$ ^4 m. g# V$ z
+ c6 t- I# }4 ^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. 8 K# d8 W8 j+ V8 ~: L9 T( t8 E9 s
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。 - a/ h, N+ L( Y" T 6 z+ X" u- _" `9 O6 nYou 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. : {8 `! D" T! Q* i" O y
3 `# w! y# t" q* q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。 4 V; o$ Z9 @: v! f8 K6 S8 l( S/ d ) ^, J6 [1 O" R4 \$ wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 2 c n; C- i/ E, X1 G; Z- O5 {6 O! Z% L, G& N
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ m' M6 v. s) j8 x# k' q9 h
; Y# I% I+ ^5 F- T, o% THaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' o3 q- a7 O: |9 G9 q, l: i7 j5 r' r# g
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。 ) @& b% [2 c: g. C4 O4 P( t" {0 Z" Z) Y* S
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. " m; ]1 ^- @0 S5 M3 u8 u - \6 Q' Z. }& r$ Y# s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。 ! P* g& M: @5 O' o, c- w1 D3 M/ o( q0 a7 K% I, u/ a/ r7 e' s
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% N$ `2 i k2 G1 q& @$ b; i
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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。5 i1 d3 _! d7 \
, D' K. I' D+ p4 fLife. 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." * }4 \, Y/ t* M4 o9 t5 y9 B/ o, C/ G1 ? C, k
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”。( U Z- g$ d* i3 T- U7 }
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