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： C/ y1 o8 j( ?3 a6 ~6 q& d, f6 S B( o7 v4 k3 _/ T: s
生命就是小甜饼：/ {* z* ^% P0 r4 D' a8 {
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. " Q& z4 g; S7 m D: f0 { O$ }# q( ^ ^# f L4 F2 O. T2 X
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”。 3 z2 y p& T- ^ ; M0 Y; a# H# C t5 b, l& sIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: H! ]: T2 n" x' d- }
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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。( L* N6 U/ S C$ a$ h9 p
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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. I" P8 r% O3 U0 r) 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。8 s F0 {3 K. w4 s8 S
, a4 y% r* }$ ^+ x, }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./ a P/ b! W$ t& j" ?1 [$ Q$ r0 b
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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。" c/ P, I+ g- f- m, ?1 e
- {8 U N3 G, oWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# D: R. E7 A8 @+ @" K
8 U( k6 e( E1 [2 v6 M, e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 b4 q0 @0 V Q
+ [% x. n! _$ S$ Y7 L zBut 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. - x* Q: d# b4 a3 p. F4 `, m" r3 m$ S& @4 q6 A9 ~$ 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。 9 U8 ]2 g7 q4 w; G/ i/ Z2 } 1 o$ r7 H: x+ k8 O" m# ?$ IThe 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 f5 i% @) _& P" N9 r [8 e! x9 f/ U
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。; ^0 ^9 Q+ X9 F& W" P
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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. ! C- _5 x8 m: S: D `8 o 7 c# k1 H1 D$ U4 s) v: N6 ]8 ^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。 " t1 w5 R2 Y+ C* w, M, A 5 B2 I6 @. Q2 `) cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 9 n" X6 L" R6 B2 q7 ~7 f' m/ K3 A5 U% U- M. N
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % |$ K6 e8 ^, |- G$ |! P9 C P: c6 t& O% a$ `, X1 v; g
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 }) ]' u- G$ _. v* X* J; t8 h8 w4 f' `9 y7 w |* ]; Q8 ~
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。 * z# l/ ~+ {$ V, d9 p5 s# k6 N8 \" l* ~ s' j; }
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. "# T9 z& ~( r! p2 S9 W" s* Z5 h' [" e
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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# i7 C, c" `; H: x5 D6 }, O ) ]2 c/ @# G8 }* E7 FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 C% B% ? k* N2 s" r; i3 Q! q
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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。. j4 D0 h/ S4 Q) q& v. {
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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." r' F5 t8 @4 S2 |+ W& `3 O* ?* s% o) c/ {, j
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”。 + i2 M9 B' p! v( v C* c+ R N) Y1 L+ Y* H6 z5 @* ~
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