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：, r; S' J Z6 m+ `5 W. y3 f/ H
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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. % ?% w2 Z8 N% t1 s0 M% _& V: p2 R+ O1 k4 G! k
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”。+ m5 B4 \2 U7 ~) N5 v* k
7 I$ `8 F3 u- @. [" G: QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 X* l$ y, f k6 ^; A
& q1 S" o8 o% Y2 n+ M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。( `# X B9 ~7 v2 w' W$ K/ @
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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. 2 n3 y/ W3 R3 _+ l( R9 r4 Q( Y# B( O5 E" Q7 `: F0 \! f
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。 J2 v- n4 [7 ^& J# w4 |8 m, p. ]& Z+ @& h3 w% p$ b% t
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. 6 U- q7 \; `, t9 w 3 y. W! C* |/ l: d E, 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。 ( U* j% v9 n, L# Y5 I. q" x- v4 A+ Z1 i' m
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 V$ H1 k* h8 Q/ [" T z
* Q* c7 C# o; Y+ @: p; i, s4 w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。 ( Q# N. W0 x# L# ~( B$ t3 U' R3 ^) [8 V) }3 f! k
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. 6 X% A8 H9 T7 O2 J5 o' [+ L6 | _3 t
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。; r2 |) ]8 S& Q+ P
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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.9 k9 Y& k7 L0 C
. H/ n5 P! |0 v: P4 c$ s: O9 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。# y# A/ ?7 I+ U c' E4 d4 C8 m
d" {4 w" c% \# E: X; ZYou 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. % l" E* s& F) g' c7 z& S0 W9 p* l% |$ L# t( `2 u' x2 p
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。 * b: G: U" b2 s( I. X 1 S m& t: @# kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 u5 X# Z4 k; ^. F4 X3 P, g, |
8 I R$ y1 U) S$ j& E9 ^你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 b" y# s' z+ _" Y+ x2 m7 [6 O2 `( t* }
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., w7 [2 H. p4 n% X: I( }2 b: f( y
3 Z* D( E2 W! G0 s/ C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。 3 A. r/ A- M) `9 h2 I E a' Y6 ~0 f6 ~# q9 a; T3 ZFor 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. " ) j" w- b/ M/ H/ M Z' ?9 t% r) T$ @! c. [4 y2 B# e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。 + ?* Z, M9 u7 g" P8 W8 S$ s : L' U, x9 y! cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 9 X: t1 q' F6 A& Y3 J/ f+ @& J. v# t6 C' z- N/ a6 X
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 C. T9 M( n6 u: @ + u, }* f" c9 R) _( ]$ Z8 J+ WLife. 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."( t8 F* \1 b7 }4 }9 i
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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”。8 k9 ]7 V% l* v. E% f8 D