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： : s6 t4 j: N2 @% b# T) C* [- G* k( {# ]: G
生命就是小甜饼：/ ]9 n$ {2 A( S. A2 K# c# ~
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.' }) H; Y. Z F$ w: u
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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”。 7 J0 p' M, @4 ?* U. c& m' h* K2 a. U5 O
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! Z- O* r! b0 u# L
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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。/ L4 z5 u$ V7 \) `
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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.! f- n. P) @. i1 b% O& e
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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。 7 ]' h) D4 i7 A3 q 7 ~" Q% Z+ s/ d# ]4 W; ?7 C5 TA 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, P! C; `' |. M- B4 Q 5 [; K& A# B/ L* P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。 9 N& E% `( D, T1 }) E8 E/ z7 a& k" w 9 M: |. Y- g* ~4 s+ J: I0 J7 rWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " o0 s, R% n. L* }% \1 D [6 d+ j$ k& j; h5 v/ g& _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。 / ]/ \( l3 u+ F5 M; s, g0 I. s( U- d" I3 t- U2 y
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.' R+ |, K+ U+ c! k7 [! R5 E r( n) q8 T
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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。% j( t; l/ q1 S, A! D* \3 W0 t
# M# H; i7 L- n# W& ]: vThe 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.# j) Q# H: a4 F. d# }' r
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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。$ w6 r0 r1 S4 Z5 v
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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. , D' O; U6 r/ R) }9 n
+ l1 B5 J& k+ wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. - w, R) L" Z2 _" V2 {: A0 ]& G$ T* G& G
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# C5 ^* k- B& S8 i: n2 X1 N
& J; o' s0 D! o4 }2 B- N& d6 q' M: {; MHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., C) H4 q1 M. r
% P* r( B+ \$ f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。 4 q% l: ?& r, a+ F% K# v4 |0 w- z6 \2 k+ h3 U# `
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. " . r6 K$ y9 l9 q. H( x4 D9 `7 N0 k s6 _7 s. Q
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。) @8 I, h. [: L2 r6 f
0 C W5 w9 @ L! y' zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 _% W: C: x, \0 J& {
3 v6 M/ `1 T: E/ F' `“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 B+ g. D4 q8 `1 N1 F5 W6 x
. `& r5 d) |% S3 x, aLife. 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 b/ S" u7 r3 ~1 Z+ R* k' F9 z8 ^8 w/ Z6 o- [+ e; ^+ ^
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”。3 |; }) J3 ~" D. t