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： 7 k. ?9 X* s( c9 \; _4 h/ |6 `7 ~9 E* {- s
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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.# P4 {- I W! l' h* I* O" @
1 ?, P# s) `, m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”。 # B, P0 X! U3 P4 O- b6 k4 z& G * Z% Y- S( n0 z# RIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 V3 V2 |1 X: T4 L+ Z. G
/ w% B+ P& s$ C+ Y, X; y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。 1 P9 `9 e P0 Y. j7 O# K+ N# x2 r9 ~, D, o
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.- @# o# F' I g9 s4 m
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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。, N$ b5 \ O) |/ H
- W t8 ]4 o: MA 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. $ X1 p( K/ d& d- O' W7 P , H7 F- ^4 E8 B n2 w& k; V+ Q: a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 v. C/ q, i# m/ ~ ; X$ G4 I- U4 s% h7 V# SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . Z- U9 b4 m- P% b! W. u3 C. z 8 L3 |9 f/ P3 H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。% y; j! w% ?) p |% Z
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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. % M7 F/ n& }6 F# c3 L * F( f8 `4 C! U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。 ' x' B) V. A0 v, V3 e3 w& ` 6 H! {# F9 T9 g0 g4 p1 I; nThe 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 D9 R3 {! o: r# O& u u) s3 K # W0 c# Q9 l! k8 k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。$ b- i: G) G8 S+ b) z* d8 q
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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. , S1 L- H( f. C& C) i# `! o) E6 ]5 d 6 ]8 Y2 U2 B+ o* | a: i/ W7 ~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。 8 u' \5 O/ l( N0 k; p; ?+ j" y ! [8 x8 A! f1 `" T7 w7 _You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ! s% v* ~. D4 M9 K/ O" e8 A- q0 c( G* u$ Z3 Q
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * b j! g1 R, Z' y+ S, b( z. l( O. D , N$ F" T' X% d- V7 [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + C; O& l3 D/ D& u4 K 2 r, i @4 m1 y0 N0 q5 X- ?$ N; v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。1 v! o6 M1 N# A& f7 l( e! {& p
2 b- z m# P& C3 |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. " " ^4 c. x9 ]" S6 d9 \" R1 O! A, r5 F1 ]7 {& O1 \/ F% _: g
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。 ) d- U8 r, I) l3 C; X 2 v) M+ [7 d, x9 e' K3 U. M$ KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' ^; V: D! y" k8 Z5 p
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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。 + a5 E* T2 [$ t) [: E6 e! p! p [# Y J8 S( k) T7 ~- u
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." 5 Z( @* h, ?0 [# Z+ s6 K! a, U9 _% [7 G7 t7 F9 A
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”。) J2 X$ |- C/ m( A8 C g9 K