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： ' g2 ?9 ]6 r: ~! Q: n: c6 V" {0 I0 O- G% w
生命就是小甜饼： 8 k% L9 G; ]) I& {9 \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.& ~) B i2 w' j9 u8 V
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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”。 # i1 S* k5 w# u' D& e& a- { % u8 q3 `, R2 o: O3 y& D1 o4 {If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# ?( c4 e, |6 I, ~
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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。( ?8 z$ l0 ?& m) u) W5 ] E3 _
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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. ! x0 ~6 S$ W& U# K5 l* u/ `3 v0 w; }6 Q' {
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 H" @3 \1 ]# v) T0 E3 T# c$ ?
; m. o; c. n, b7 I# R" ~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.: Y& k3 q' p R9 y- i% Z" X
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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。0 E, P+ f) h, w [- M. [
+ S1 g8 h; K e7 J; M* bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ' ^" }5 T6 r3 x/ L8 b$ G/ \ ; f1 W1 S: |7 W- ~. ^' _7 K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。2 u% U' ^9 p) Q4 I: L; g
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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. 5 v t+ A& C2 g$ D1 c4 H : k' g9 k d/ H p9 @* y9 R g) _7 w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。7 k, G2 _. q4 K- e3 G! H
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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.( y) ^, P5 n) I: G( q
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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。* E' N4 H0 C- d6 K
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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. 0 y# j+ B/ b" l1 }+ R+ Q8 D5 `
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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。 ' {7 {2 R, B1 g' I9 d0 y' P) x! n% i3 H/ [3 R
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 2 z0 O; w: A7 k. n0 n: ~) l$ t n2 \. g- l2 G2 {$ ~( T
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* [3 Z W6 x F% s6 P
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 T1 c! Q- [0 u! C. d. c
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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。 % p4 a0 e' `& y9 k: i T9 M+ n( ^! Z2 B0 d3 t t4 v7 q; S
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. "* j2 `9 s/ ~5 [, a4 d
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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。3 m5 S- E7 i9 O+ v X: t% J K
, i4 q$ _" B3 ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' A t6 r7 K2 |$ Y5 A 1 H: I: I6 [: |7 i“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 F5 N, Q+ @1 f) t2 m' T2 D+ {# z
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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." 3 {9 ?9 U7 y @* ^' y# M- q7 J( R# K5 j9 ]" E9 f# 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”。 / l1 [/ d& f7 g6 V9 p. {5 z' C2 v5 V! k& w
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