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： # d3 E/ ?6 a, `& h9 R' o9 ^ 9 b) v& @. B4 Y# P% G! @. b生命就是小甜饼：( _, k+ g" r0 N' p2 G( i/ Z
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.2 ?! Q" b- O: h$ w
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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”。2 e# J# \1 K2 U6 C( w
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: i9 M, ^# y% Q0 u, ~6 X
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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。 3 j" B1 X/ f: N8 e2 r; P8 u) q% x" u; L4 n
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.6 r- j( A0 T. X7 Y' ?
* `' A6 T+ L F, k. v2 `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。 - J4 [. y+ o6 f % d2 c9 P0 U6 K( z/ vA 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* Y. M/ N2 s" N/ O8 ] w' d# ?' d N# X% c; v. i. t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。1 Q9 y" j+ ^1 u8 m( T+ O
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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.5 s% [0 c% [ C" d( }
% y3 S' o- k$ O' W& ^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。% v, @/ k5 e0 S5 z# Z2 n1 I
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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. . U4 D0 Q9 E; Z- X . h+ n$ ]) G- o2 }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。# k$ t; _" w) R7 m8 k+ B4 A$ u
( T7 k9 d5 m* U4 `; a4 D% }0 dThe 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.- b4 X% |0 N6 f% ]
# M+ \) e: B: \& }( p, z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。 5 p/ ^; o3 m9 Q" W/ Y 6 s7 U- w# [" y7 p1 [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. 4 \) U5 r* Y* p3 l0 H" \0 @9 s, j
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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。 1 ?' a5 q* }+ Y" E- M, u F, P0 O% t" J6 l0 Y* C
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & W+ Z- ]0 Y8 z! z" A& c5 B: [6 E' ^0 z/ w u4 @! D
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 m, n8 W2 E3 H' O/ ] B. G 5 C5 a/ X/ {, Z5 r5 RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ X q( w/ I+ J+ s
" i1 ^" \4 o' w1 N: J3 T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。 1 l k! Y. Q. X; }3 _2 {- c; b) h* U
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. "% P9 V+ ^) g. n0 p& v0 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。2 w. [* P0 K' I% B7 B, K
, e/ \2 G+ t' v6 N: bTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 U n8 i+ s. W) ^' V ' a: {3 |4 ]+ Y& \5 L x. r5 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。0 P1 F4 M5 k& I! {
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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." ! m2 s, V1 y$ F6 s9 Q5 H, Y( A; J- ~+ f. |
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”。: ~0 S* j4 ?: X- y! r" t3 D