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：6 {9 g% ~6 K% B! u r
$ {) |. |- `2 B5 U生命就是小甜饼： 6 y+ V0 F$ F! m# p+ A$ n% M* _! cOne 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. . J; O# f7 Z: @& Q- @; F# W0 S- q7 y& T' Y8 P
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”。 2 q4 W1 X9 ~0 k S. ~5 h. v2 H/ R. P; B3 h6 L8 u
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' P" B* ]( P- W 9 @" U) c3 o# Y- ~7 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。 / [( o- K4 {6 R3 l0 l# X4 C$ Q: S: O( {' j$ n
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.. L1 E" r. ~9 i0 [
8 `6 N/ B8 j2 _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。 ) _, Q- L( }& e, u. d- R5 ], v' o( u" ?
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. 5 F0 M- b2 @3 \& Z7 Z* t" v' |! {' ~, z. D' l) [0 [
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。 z j4 ] W) q* v 8 _& p; l) n, G4 f8 j6 ^When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 9 \( [* \0 o, c) @5 A% |" N& @
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。! m N' w- d w+ A" |6 B
% S: e1 s. p) d- kBut 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. 8 m: i3 x1 B6 j, a( P% T v: {3 M 9 _0 m! R e* I9 |4 p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。 " s X4 X, f5 ^$ A6 z 7 E% @- C" Z6 x8 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.. @# o7 i. H3 u3 \% {; t
0 C. n2 H3 \* @9 y4 b& w8 _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。 " X8 |& O; V" u, p 8 r: Z$ I3 V. z+ p9 D( eYou 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. 1 P7 X4 l1 ]6 J4 r' X# f6 k
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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。 0 y6 }7 H* p' ^6 F9 l* K6 Z0 E! }, u1 I% ^
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: H2 s5 r: r. T* S9 x
0 |( k1 c) {4 U1 ]7 X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# J- W7 r* G& }1 G/ O
$ W9 L6 u5 {; a. P% o% d, @+ iHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." W- i: f& D* g, d; m5 D% d3 \5 Y" E) r
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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。 ( F3 ?! |2 i) l- |/ c; E7 o0 S$ I z- X* t
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. "8 Z' ~. A4 Q$ q
% _8 g* y4 P5 d8 i+ x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。( t1 H3 E% f0 [8 L( X( C
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* b g6 W& i# Q
: I( l& D2 b! K“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % e/ O, }2 B8 a) `% D& u" r4 s0 K' G) c& A2 B2 \
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." D( F! O& q8 ]/ \, z9 M: X6 V. p4 U- H
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”。 G+ S) Q+ x x8 Z0 ~& s4 [ s- `; U* N
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