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：1 T) X: g ^8 |( s- p
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生命就是小甜饼： ' t* ~& k2 z8 z- }5 \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.5 ~* F' w7 A0 j3 p& u4 k
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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”。 ~9 @* L2 v, X3 G; S 5 e2 |3 |" ] y j! rIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , w- B# S" ~! m0 r I: D 7 z5 l1 M9 A) Y8 t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 {7 |. R; s. j' N9 ~
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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.5 ?) Y( b# W) w
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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。 1 K% Y1 O+ _, Y! ` M$ W- X! F" B/ K( Q! O2 F5 T6 f& f" ?( z
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. 4 y5 p4 O, v/ h) T; U- D- d6 h / ~- O1 b+ L8 [, Z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。 , D# B# P" z2 K 3 M" ?* e; y. H( p: N; UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 I$ } w1 v' U* L0 ~, l0 p' _& G4 c
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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。 9 n/ c8 a" b l5 h4 t 3 T; u/ L4 f7 o- ]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.6 a1 l! j/ e( B x
6 `7 u& K! P8 l3 V0 Q5 f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。 ! M3 `, B# s' Y5 }3 |" @9 W: ~7 i' ] , i# c ?$ m- b, A7 }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.& m! Z2 \$ f+ B
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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。 ' k0 E$ {5 H+ w' J3 S9 d% f' K
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. ; u) q/ c, P k$ [+ d7 m 9 }5 S \3 |: t+ z5 N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。 ) `5 x v1 Z* f0 c1 x( A# T n3 i$ Q! |' z( i) v
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 6 r% e, |8 d2 k- j5 L! }3 ] 0 x% q Q( R+ p% K) I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; B+ w. z6 r9 J2 O, o2 g * |3 N* |! o) ^% H K7 j/ f0 O: lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( I+ c# Z5 v. Y( S0 W+ j
$ {' |6 {$ W6 X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。( }* K- C4 v1 r& J+ d; H/ m4 J
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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. "% Z, y1 C9 N- J2 j4 h, I
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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。 9 P3 c& r& I, @' I1 k5 v, k) _ & t$ X* j$ [& X3 D& yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ( C$ w1 _8 C4 ?) @* l8 T: T; b+ X ?: E R
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( P( Q: z; P. `4 G& ?
* J/ e8 l1 o) b, ~+ JLife. 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." . f; Q+ q/ k* t % X' P& i0 U H: b% [' H' E8 _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”。 - A1 `( {- s+ C& u; j) z/ R$ r" j' e' ] Y5 c3 i6 j5 V4 Q: Y' |
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