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： - ~+ U+ D4 O5 d2 s3 i! O: A% h: A/ h& h" ]: n
生命就是小甜饼：+ L1 P$ R$ _+ I P9 o# {* x7 T* B
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. , S( J& o. j! g2 S5 N+ O! Z/ d# M/ w3 Q# o' K4 s
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 E* z) h' v8 i& N + t# p( K7 m6 A/ H4 o( \. JIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 4 }0 i# f& O* | - s% Y5 j# S) Y) z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。0 h; r) b* i# h/ V
6 k$ F# }4 ?7 [/ ^5 {( bSome 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. 3 |' ]& O, _# l; N: {% M! U1 y- L2 e" j. q3 V5 @
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# f/ y( v) ^; {6 V4 u
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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.3 p, |. j! A+ e; ?7 M: w. L
* L3 H; m0 w s8 d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 M% N. X$ b( `4 T! K4 g, E# [5 E& {0 }8 G
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 z7 L+ Z% K+ B" k1 p
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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。 ( B4 m( J2 s, W* g* e- U9 I4 f ) Q% w5 X- j W: ABut 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 A$ \6 ?1 C+ T. m% ^# Y. }
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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。 * z$ E6 r- p5 O+ E5 r" [4 R. w/ ~6 Z% {- q7 m
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.# C$ y Q/ Z' u* V8 }: W9 Z
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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。1 T+ d- }0 _" ]! W5 F" B; C0 @
1 @ a N. A/ i0 n' \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. / g0 {* d2 U5 w( S7 J 9 a) U# w- ^5 Q/ v% b4 S! I% C7 n0 A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。 9 O0 Q; u" ?" l3 s. _$ }% _2 u- Z4 a2 B+ R( a% d- D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., N4 Y% |8 `0 p
* H$ q, t& m& N j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ C" a: W. g+ G" z* `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + N y! L: @/ L, P: B( s0 Y! f3 D% v+ x6 L" 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。7 }9 Q7 o& o' ]$ D! p$ s3 h
/ O) R) S7 Z. u, \6 J. |+ j/ sFor 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. "- c% o/ x0 w% S C- C
& u2 @" g) f6 M( _+ g* t6 L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。 & J9 b" D6 n& w4 R- `: [! ^! C' }: L( S, @; `3 P0 p2 l
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 9 }, N# E5 _6 `9 J( K0 n5 v- s, D; Y; Y5 o! r
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 9 m$ z9 G7 y9 L# O) a% N" n9 ^) {9 ~1 u; ^. v% j" w, {: [9 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." # y0 p& L( r1 r6 ^0 m7 z7 T G 2 I# v, @' e9 l& S9 b$ v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”。 ) T% H6 h4 ~& E' A( m3 E# [% h% x6 k! Z: k) Q5 A$ i
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