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： " ~) |' `4 V- n5 v/ I& E! Q3 v
生命就是小甜饼： & h9 t. S. p+ ?9 f" n8 vOne 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. % l7 ]3 d: B; T4 v7 T0 [/ f! ~' Q3 A9 Q; a
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”。 * ]/ F7 A4 A4 t2 v z- {/ D. a0 `: O* s" `* ]
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. i7 @3 O: d& o0 q P+ S" V 4 l# A6 u; _7 _2 K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。 ) S( f. Y% i" d# N8 ^ 7 ?. A) I: b9 S% }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." C: q0 O% r% s. \- u' @
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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。 2 Q* ^# c9 M4 {' @1 u) K" i # Z" W+ R3 z/ G6 ^) u8 PA 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.7 L7 i6 {4 o0 ^# X. ] E* A% P, A: ^
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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。 ; ^6 t0 W% ~ q3 z [8 a2 x- M& D! }4 f/ p. f5 B" [
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % K5 B1 d" Y0 G. n/ e# R/ E % O, S t+ e+ a9 b# ] y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。' b7 T- [# f S) T' |$ ?
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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( c) N1 s j / U2 X3 d2 W# @ @- a/ o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。$ g4 i! w1 [, A6 L
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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.2 ?# _2 g3 A B- s( F1 C
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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。 ! M( B' ^$ m8 K- e+ W 1 a. Y9 n9 Q2 @1 K/ TYou 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. , @$ I' l5 E, o+ w
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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。 ?3 m0 {/ o F' B 8 B; v; l9 W' U G; JYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 w" ?$ i8 z6 ?* n% G" h; h p 2 _- W8 f( d. q* s& _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : d! k+ G; M( [4 X- X1 Q& Y* }# R7 j
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # ^9 l9 c. f6 S3 u' u 1 ?- e% f3 Y3 g0 x0 h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。 / q- c) K0 p' m4 X- t- d | }$ E; M& B n 0 @( W# a7 F; qFor 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. "6 R1 Q8 ~# V/ Z$ v- a$ W, H
: n0 ?$ A' N3 X! a- V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- q* L/ R9 h: J- s* m' V4 }4 G g1 q' Q2 e! c* ~& h, U
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 8 B0 R8 X* M0 o+ a4 i) x3 \% D1 {: R& o; p1 Y- T; U
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% O1 a8 z: P/ |1 h2 p1 F$ V* m
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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." ) u4 J( K0 l g6 \0 f h$ l7 y: d: L) k/ t. S4 A# L' J- Z
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”。% Q+ t& R* T0 x- S; D