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：5 D5 |0 L$ n6 X' T5 k) i+ H
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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 B( T0 o3 N& Z9 e
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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”。6 @! U: l6 j& U0 J( z
$ ]' W$ U. s1 k8 [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 c0 d$ @' A! _- `0 R, o$ b - g- i, ~$ K: m# K* E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。4 `6 j/ Y/ R# k% w, @4 t 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.$ K& j2 f# U3 O5 J
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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。( ], x; y* b& v
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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.0 q. o5 o4 R, d) ]) Y
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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。 / Q* E3 Z; Y* @ % l k+ \+ X; B$ s3 ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." x; s! K/ ]: y; Z3 ?$ }& P
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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。0 o* Y$ O) h, S: r" s2 y1 g1 b( U- `
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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. x$ o& m6 ?7 p; p8 |1 ^& f% E! G
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。0 N; p& ?3 p5 n& l/ d& j
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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.+ k, ^8 V4 X+ |8 y/ Z) ^' D! J! {
- C6 a& b+ s* } |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 Q7 {" r: r6 ^$ j; Q
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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. $ I4 K- d1 N/ @! i5 q 6 O" @% ^& s" R0 p. d& r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 Z! N# q, t/ Q/ e7 s6 c1 y4 q' i & \2 G$ I7 G3 Z! W7 H0 D- wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 N/ X0 u- l O% U7 W ! p2 r, _% ]. @: ?你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' `6 E/ @: {7 J: J: m- f ! u% ^' A& z) \! C. `) |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , E* ?1 c T+ W* z( v$ v [% C. j* d8 o
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 ]) c8 x' M, f& _0 m: u
3 h0 ?1 N* ~5 Q; ?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. " # V: t# M7 F4 P& {, T( @: P+ S: j 7 [& V0 u5 I# H! j4 k" A5 e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。( {! e$ f3 h/ j) M+ O/ h9 K4 X9 G
6 s7 s1 `. f7 t( l i" J, e' b7 A nTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 7 O" P+ J# Z/ n' U; J. Z, ]5 A! A3 v q/ B0 c( w
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' a6 H' r, P. b1 u" F $ Z5 ~3 y- [1 ?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." 0 t0 t7 ] |# h6 T, G7 U6 K+ T. T6 J3 n: _6 X4 r- U- a
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”。 2 g$ p% ?5 H% Q( k& L9 X' _! w; ?& b) o
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