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： 8 B5 G6 R- F0 v; D: `/ F" e- Y4 S- P5 z
生命就是小甜饼： ) {3 Y) Z0 I R/ dOne 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. ' t" ?$ C$ v2 L7 t% f* D% @/ H, ]+ W# h- _ ?# i
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 j" M2 |% |, [ C
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 ~5 t0 I' t; z( Y" L$ h: x$ L - T r; j) y+ r! }5 q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。 2 |5 W/ X. V) Z, H* G, r* j; n$ U' g1 k8 u0 H
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.* s1 |; w& {2 `
- s+ g9 X3 d* v7 u5 @: d$ 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。 2 t0 R+ S: g6 C: e1 t# P% Y1 @3 ?0 f- d! E5 j3 V/ ]4 s8 t
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. 2 o9 m( G9 c* S: m; R 7 W) q9 ~2 t8 B* R4 z1 s; P0 w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 z" i5 I% E% l
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ' P; m h" U' _8 W; f( v1 \( d0 E# \+ \ h2 Z
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。 , P7 F a- E: S; ~ , r- k/ f5 c3 eBut 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 G+ N- Q/ O n" t: l# n( u( ?+ m e v+ c. W3 V; w# B/ w5 R
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。8 ~; X: t+ {: g; b
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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. s$ H2 X7 h K! @; a1 }- {
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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。 n# ~% R& D, k/ A
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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. 2 t4 `5 h Y* ^( G
% ]: X' i' R2 J* k/ w" [: E0 I8 M, o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。 : N" @7 d# n7 w" ?. C( f0 o) P: J2 V, s* y
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : M) C# L! C& ]# ]8 u8 J7 t! _5 h' n0 Z( s9 L6 L* Y' h$ e! J
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 w- e. L9 V4 Q8 L# O $ l5 Z) f3 a& g% i% RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 4 y; X5 }& K* R; b* K8 \2 h 9 |# \+ J1 I! K3 x! ^2 s0 l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。 8 G1 B/ g/ t2 X! N; @9 t% j! F) ~8 ?: {5 x1 f. f
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. " 9 \; N5 o3 @1 o3 C0 U$ n; O4 k9 W( z7 x. Q) s& X; j
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。 ( ^7 \; W2 {/ g e8 ^1 i, P% m" F- D, h0 ^0 _
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' Q+ Y6 o3 R) o8 Q: j
8 O2 Y8 @; H! G“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- B/ Q7 C" O, D6 T
& ~# \7 x5 P6 Q5 `/ vLife. 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."+ T+ f8 q) C( ~4 u) _
' s; n0 k A2 ^! J2 {$ 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”。# [; |# o& t- V( M