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： ; b# P% U5 _' p) R _ / f9 f3 h( C; q1 L. Y' |( k4 s生命就是小甜饼：9 t8 s! y8 z D7 ]" N
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.9 }6 {4 l# e W; Q
+ l3 T+ d: i( c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”。$ \8 F' F* G* ~0 ~1 r
n6 I, N* R& I) \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + b1 R' A9 w% e( E% u. ?; a+ V3 j 9 U9 `! d! {. R) r+ [8 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。 N* o1 E1 Z% G" k1 B
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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. / D3 i' z0 P' V7 ^+ q2 J$ `: y/ W6 q9 K3 P. O4 t$ y2 d5 \
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。 " l# z% b1 p+ t& T; @3 f* L0 d5 `, o6 M7 {" A& R6 A7 k& z7 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.( Z& c9 d/ r; _! r9 s
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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。 ( w" H+ T" T+ i& Y1 ?+ Z1 |- D0 t* g3 Y5 v0 _; j6 H
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. * }6 w- K' W* ]- K. x" z, f 0 e9 A. O0 C. p3 q5 ]9 I* q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。1 Q: b5 r4 n! m& I5 v
6 E$ }! r% g4 e$ T3 X4 L. H aBut 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.( g/ u9 u$ a: x8 f' f( t
& @8 J, T: {; C5 F. 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。 " F; I# _* @& X3 o6 [3 G1 C + Q1 C+ [4 r# OThe 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 d$ i. S$ o: ]) t
& p5 P; P1 }; ^ ?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。 . ~! e; o" ]6 ^7 s9 x. [9 R; \. H" |6 U
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. ( q$ b* _. a) s4 t- [6 t
) H; `$ x4 E' pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' I2 f* k9 i4 z& ]
0 L$ s, n/ B4 m4 }% s: u% E7 H4 T你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, M9 ?- G! a! f; U
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) R' w& v+ M& {. Y/ V
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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。6 ~' {* \8 r( k0 B/ V
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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. " 6 R* {' B1 q& \/ s8 J3 L+ x7 v o8 J3 Q$ ]% 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。 0 p$ f( X9 U! _% D. I6 c9 X* R( d 7 g4 @) B5 B& U: Q& ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. g- h( d, `0 w
; L/ ?' P3 l e0 t“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ K. O! K- M2 D; v, D; p; G8 t
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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." ) q/ o0 }' X7 A4 J% U 7 F7 M- u0 o9 N, y: q" j3 X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”。+ O- D) W7 f' L8 b$ u