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： ; d/ m( w! T% J9 P8 e7 l7 l9 q3 [3 E6 [
生命就是小甜饼： - F+ \9 N' ]9 aOne 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- N4 M5 w" A5 i
- C- l+ m( x% C {& W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”。/ f' W' g( j+ _& z# K
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) P$ L3 h& p" c7 Z0 X
: r8 ~; ?% P b; B+ Y! L8 D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。. r$ m8 U$ `" @+ r
0 C$ m- h/ }" s/ X; g N2 }( \ MSome 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.) E0 P% x; Z& A D4 c( g
8 i' D, ]6 k9 ~! A0 UA 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.' ^. q& C% l6 }0 ^% D" {
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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。# s6 p3 Y/ \3 q) G' m% f
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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.: p3 }% z* Q2 b5 G3 R
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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。' G) t" _. u6 b- X+ ~; y d6 F. n
) A: _( }- ?- ]3 Y. TBut 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 o4 a4 w- W$ t2 b
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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。6 e+ a# T# Z+ Q) |
5 c. _! y5 i4 C$ ^' J) ?( O4 fThe 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. 0 ~) x$ D2 w) J 3 P1 [$ {$ B! q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, F% m/ r" @, e+ K# p: w: k- u+ m1 ]) M# Z$ k1 K; G
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 n) l: b/ }+ _# h! y
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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。/ s: `+ D3 a9 e( x' b, M# O
- m3 X5 i+ T1 }* s2 ?6 C& M$ Q4 lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 S! S2 C8 ?8 {2 z3 R9 A" L
& ^- b4 L; R4 S2 W, {/ l, o5 F8 R# O- J你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 c1 E! h$ T1 B Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 d4 k4 N; H7 [' t" B% y- l, t. @) G/ v( F% r
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。 # D% n7 W8 |: H: _; ^9 g! c( t% ~( x; E* L
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. " r6 Y$ L' O+ H9 S
( i5 C8 e( Y1 W) _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。 - \5 z- T- B8 S0 y 2 c8 F& L& L4 ]* ?! c# KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: E( G) m4 i. ?. H6 d& w; ^
/ M% {2 W! W a. ~“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 . `) |( N/ B$ [" M/ e* w5 O4 g0 D8 Z' A7 ~7 |8 J$ c8 c4 I" z
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."- U$ N! T6 J) r1 N! f+ d# B
' T) i1 d; e6 X/ p* V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”。8 Y. _2 q# k/ j9 I; |3 T/ ?6 X