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： $ x+ | T" N# p. E$ J I [6 J, Y8 G; P- S T" d0 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. K1 _9 L' g6 I" Q( C O8 W
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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”。 : e( m3 I! l/ k* i; K; |" S3 Q6 f3 z" ^3 O
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' }, A/ ~! P1 H6 X& o* Z ( }1 Z3 o* P, p: [" U' S0 u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。, v5 s: ]" u. E; Q; G
: D* U6 ^" h4 |& Y3 wSome 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.' M6 o5 g% N7 e2 h
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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 P, `2 n8 \: d, W
" T8 a8 U$ D8 qA 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. 2 }4 e1 ~0 t" L4 l Z& d+ A3 ]( C; r+ ]6 W1 S3 `; 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。# R* I7 l L6 ]
# R4 d( ^2 U1 o, E- KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 K4 n! W2 G R- h/ @
- |6 W2 \- F1 B4 `9 ?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。 7 Q4 W* s9 t/ w( Z; f" y- k6 h) `! @$ V, C& u! k) t- 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.% F4 M" E. s3 K( x. |, i4 L
, b8 K# x. T8 i3 I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。 - T& d9 Q8 E8 B8 K6 h 2 ?2 ~3 \8 j! a/ P# @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. ; u k1 u( r* O% W! P" R) v: z1 f4 }9 e' \" M% W
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。 6 x/ S9 Z' M* N2 L! z2 K ; m' f: g$ l5 v/ T1 VYou 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. # ~7 U: Y' x9 V. L# Q9 B$ n, S9 Z. C# m/ m
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。- ~1 u/ r/ N& `' M3 Y5 @
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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. 9 X) D, m2 b" o) |- E; Z( z& }9 h & J P; l5 i7 f- l3 J* f你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 e4 m9 d* w0 {- }# A. H8 g" [5 w2 }
% t$ j$ `* |& F8 B# W) WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 Z! v/ s2 r) K" {/ D ^' d
4 L* h( f. r6 z+ t7 ~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。 , d3 v: ^- r/ q( q 2 D( X8 ^1 M jFor 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 A0 v r3 ^ }. S y- }4 x8 f- w! Z- c: {1 R; _% S7 V6 a5 w- J
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。. I+ n) ]( U7 d- l3 p' ~2 R8 u
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 7 V( C+ Y) Q: j, o 8 {+ t' ]6 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。 + T0 P1 F% E1 K6 @) P$ U: q 6 I, b+ Z9 i1 x7 JLife. 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 ]6 ?- r7 q/ L, n O
* T3 r8 D. f" O' u! _* W3 M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”。0 ~) U! }+ O! h! y, U0 d9 \