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： 9 e! t4 j, G# Q" K1 p . W! b$ J S5 ~1 J5 V7 q) D+ q生命就是小甜饼：3 L" Y) D' ^( ^2 o; `2 k
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. ( N1 C& n8 v% {2 f9 K; p6 g$ i& V+ l+ Q* [
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”。 $ C, F$ A N" x3 I& M0 b9 M- F* N ' _" P9 Q4 Q. J$ pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 ` o: n5 g2 \4 q0 W
T$ J, W1 Y# O% A/ r# z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。 & A: ^' l C W/ D+ U0 [( R6 m! t( \+ z
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.; _* h- s! u: R6 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。 # n% U# V4 b0 l" A& _ + k/ p) C% a0 X. @/ F7 N4 l/ _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. % A% P% d9 r' {2 C6 t 4 j1 j5 l4 B$ j1 H4 }( r7 [0 D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。+ F1 z1 k5 e, A
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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. 9 g! ~0 R4 w u ; C) G) M* @4 Y9 X( A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。# Z# g% z- C* i: Y4 ^
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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+ B; k( n& {) J* ]6 c3 A! k
& }2 v, J" e) Y* i. b* F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。 1 A* k, g' R4 {/ |: x" a6 X ' h) \' F/ j+ k s; EThe 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.: U% P# M& a w2 E4 F0 `9 t
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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。+ k) q: U" Y |3 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. ( p& S, _! W2 \
8 [( p) c* `' w" ], A: Y S; l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 V! w& x1 _. k3 w t5 i8 Q# g( C- i q& N2 @6 [5 r
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( c% {8 M$ v2 S/ U# s3 X7 i ; d8 _+ e, v$ m) K/ G5 u$ D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* Z5 B8 e$ ]' \7 b& d5 I
8 M% R" f; {- W& d8 H) nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 u+ G: ?2 s* F; s
, d8 V/ |' H$ U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。. j/ |/ \/ `, P1 h' Q" r0 K! n3 }
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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. " # X9 _ | \9 x6 Z, M" k8 K/ a, l1 c. S
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。; v3 O: Z: ~- v6 ]. V5 Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# I+ N3 `, D& x0 i
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 `. @, h( G; S% L4 A* ]; N+ c! x" T% @% S7 F1 h" K
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."# o! Q& H6 N' |; G; R& v! `# T
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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 V% A5 a' E& v$ \* x6 L- t8 Q