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 D& p: L0 _8 F# z$ T1 K, N1 ^( ~' x5 |' i4 {
生命就是小甜饼：7 l, |( ? `4 o+ _% w
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. , V6 t& P$ K/ a5 I9 a( @) r$ d& m, i* Z J) m' m9 }4 O
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”。( D$ w" z1 J: W
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 J4 ]+ I- ? X. G4 X
% s. K0 y8 ]1 s/ M5 }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。 0 \' R$ w. G5 c1 F: y3 ~& H3 W' d# s- K+ G7 z% {" k+ }% B
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.* q% p. ~2 W' s: r
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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。 * l( v7 B1 I" O6 U , ]+ b/ @4 H oA 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. + |( U' x( ~6 k8 j( W/ w% _; g/ Y) n- i, }4 m
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。5 A1 S6 ~) g1 s! t
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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.! G7 n, g# g" a2 h# _7 F7 d
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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。1 A a7 v" Z4 l* M# |! O: b
" i$ t( P' \- e( dBut 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. 3 B6 O3 {9 U" q* S5 M+ ] ( _/ b3 e" S7 J0 O( f. U' r! ]7 p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 L" @ {! Z2 C8 |2 ?0 e
6 K" ~* O" I! A7 i/ D8 }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. 8 r% _/ m8 m7 d! ^+ A7 L V5 \, I3 J: R5 ~3 m4 Z$ H
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。 " f" b. d4 {& a' P' Z# r1 v+ E- i3 f6 G2 ?% j4 Q
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. % K7 m# O# ^9 p2 h m& }- _ ; V$ @; G' K, n" h- l" P, d3 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。 4 z8 ]) w# J0 _& t5 D) j0 ^2 I0 B; D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 Y/ a4 M [8 Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 O8 f9 `0 k; y& N* z' \ `" B5 o/ A
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- T- d4 K" h. l% a" x+ U' l$ n) I
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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。5 K3 s0 d/ j! [/ @; d! h. V& A, A' E
; R2 v, z4 r# K7 ?1 [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. "! ?! k- ~# ~# `0 i- y; a' [- D
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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。 . e4 J( o6 P: x 3 Q% b# `* ~. s: R- Z% K* pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 n% B7 R* G& A5 M& M X7 F: n7 V4 J- C' d: M0 H
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 4 B$ q# Q; m8 ]0 F/ T3 P5 i % G/ C8 E$ d/ n; [1 O! kLife. 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." 3 G0 H7 p' m1 ?7 ] ; V$ p5 s/ {: o* y) f+ u* M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”。. J3 @) d- {' G. F" g3 N9 ^