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：3 E4 Z( a3 `) t7 M) d
! v# e* Q$ d) Y. _生命就是小甜饼： $ ]) E! R! b' E' {+ cOne 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. + d _+ C6 a! U5 Z5 S% t( `( m8 p% l. Q0 ^
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”。 , o( a: h2 e* c& l; [6 G+ @8 B, U2 G# i" l' }6 n/ K; C+ E" w
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " F! y: Q, R O5 T! o3 r {+ M5 h9 L" ^! \1 X3 E1 I
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。4 p5 D: d3 S! R! M) Q( _' R
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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. ) Q/ Z2 N3 _3 g" Z6 N& h9 p4 z; n% E5 h
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。 : b; A1 W3 ^8 e4 C) U7 L2 U j9 c8 x- M6 H0 `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. # H' ?! Y/ j \ g4 {! ~0 n2 }7 ^ G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。* P' j& n7 i( ^. U% C
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ n4 P3 R* e; U. C
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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。 % j. S. g* n5 M X# a. W ( S ~* j6 F* x3 T" c3 |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.& f( F5 X6 ~& H; C8 b
U; g$ O2 |+ i) P7 \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。 R% C* o" C C: E/ ]5 u 2 | m: M/ U" `* U4 R% W* O3 AThe 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.* _4 f+ Q) H5 a- {1 W+ b% w, s* ]
e6 ~3 A- |" V% }% x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。 2 f* S H& H3 A+ Z" G 4 x0 }7 R7 j! {0 V( {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. 3 O9 J7 y( o; Z9 W# E
1 Q0 f! [" d- w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。 . j7 L, E; g& {6 S3 m 6 o' e! t, g5 OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 T& w1 v2 z. y& p
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( L' u6 ?+ P- r& g! f5 v
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., _; z" Y. ~, o$ f) a. a0 T
- |" `5 K" [7 P5 t4 `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。 , s8 o3 v& C! }3 x1 L 3 F& B0 ]! f9 fFor 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. "- \8 J# S- u) W3 R4 f9 N( f. q
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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。4 Z" o" n7 l3 ^. D
! N, R' o2 X0 STwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " V3 b+ H- W! l( T: l5 {9 P3 R1 _4 H6 ^# _# {2 m
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ S0 k( _0 _( h. z9 o3 s9 J9 V
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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.") |7 R8 |9 r" G; U
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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”。4 l$ D) R6 @. U