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： * } r8 m' R* U/ e8 |8 s5 n* \. T& @7 M/ a8 D
生命就是小甜饼： ( Y+ U+ x9 Q6 |) zOne 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 r" M! n6 W8 J& y# s0 |% o& O( R, a; L* t' g
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”。 e0 Z5 ?4 }4 C q% P. ]
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " ]6 F* h) \8 j1 }- ~9 e, C& d4 j2 `; D4 U% b* D c+ }
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。* L" p# J3 X6 J$ e
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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/ i+ O& w' Q3 I( e2 H3 P0 Y9 x# M p/ k* o8 q8 U9 a5 ^3 _
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。. M; c2 z( q& l4 R7 ?8 }
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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. + t5 P# U7 o3 R% |. u6 i; m 0 J6 C! P$ b% Q( `1 z1 H& [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。 ' C9 ]$ Z% W8 M6 x7 O; _! J; q& T% l2 b; v) |, X$ U; b
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& I1 ~: u9 s8 a. A6 Z0 _( t/ h- g
* w. y8 A9 ~+ ^' c# R5 u; B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 v- Q5 }0 y5 v8 a" Z2 {7 C! `& Y5 f b, W
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. 1 r8 N$ G4 q& w9 C. W: [$ | ! [7 r) ]- Q/ a+ ]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。; d( r9 r6 r. y. ]) Y& A
1 {# R2 ~7 j! J: f! `1 |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. ( z4 B4 d! L4 l" O0 m: U& B : c2 n2 ?4 i3 g+ P5 f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。 8 P4 o5 i7 a: W! `" R+ }$ Y: q0 w6 F
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. , z- i& V- I2 E( D( ^8 ^, U2 z7 ^+ j$ O/ [) p$ d' }1 F
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。 ' Q7 G/ q: g; e0 E& [" i: K( F: A5 p) x4 T" y! O4 T c
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% G1 E+ R P3 S" l) N8 p [
& v5 C0 H5 Q7 k$ @你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 / Z" l) @& a( x! f, q ) S1 |0 x& H5 g1 }0 J+ b7 E5 nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 P/ w h1 _4 u& W . d5 a7 q0 j4 ~3 s6 z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。 - ^2 W1 n) X. V# o+ k9 g4 } 2 M- s9 o- I! f. bFor 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. "; R8 q3 v" O! V& Z5 }: c5 p
9 d, @- W* \' w0 f5 ]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* G) Q2 v7 o+ n" K" S. d/ `; H9 z1 l1 K z
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., V9 R7 N* P. i; O. `5 G
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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。, o/ v8 [' N% d# W
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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." 3 M; w( \' \; o6 o1 M! }9 H. X! r1 P* i* C) Y
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”。. `( J1 A7 f3 K- \. U3 }# O
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