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：7 j; V. {0 p G" S! J* d% R9 t
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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. 6 }) T6 t! z' X4 P* g; b* |' p 3 K8 J: z* N2 X( u5 b1 V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”。 % t3 B6 r c. `$ z( q3 W( g* V( C: ^8 B/ d5 T& x. X B
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. |" _" Q( s3 J6 Z ' ]/ `# k4 e8 d1 N2 [1 W0 g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 ~7 ?. }3 e) h2 m* g 9 n* ~6 Y/ r8 B# e) ]& ?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./ Q1 V' [) h$ K' ~4 n6 j
) a0 y1 @; e; k) {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。 ; ~- U7 [" U4 ? d |* J6 O2 g# E R+ V6 j
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.( ^7 \7 `$ W; C: v, [
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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。 + E( A$ a6 H' Q8 B# v" u0 G2 H7 t n
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# G7 h: m- }/ G1 \* `9 F" @+ D
; c, [7 t. f% g% ], s& A, f* m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 F/ m/ k% x j. L$ F. A* o, ]! W0 T0 Q+ H
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.1 P& b; n) `0 g! b' d
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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。- _0 k1 g0 Y# K6 d
; ]1 L$ C* K7 @0 Y& P# O$ bThe 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. ) a) f9 u2 c* L- X0 h4 L 7 y6 S" b/ t& i" y; v) \4 [. d( g! R/ w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。; a+ r) M9 f. b
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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. # n9 l1 W. A: L! b3 g4 B2 B, I# v! { # _ Z# ^$ G/ \. m% f- N- V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。 0 E* u' d! H; ^* b: r1 _ : V' p3 M! s/ Y! L0 u8 |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. + q7 F) O% [5 P+ o! k! I- U- K 1 ? t# F# @$ H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 B' u' X9 B+ X " R& N+ W8 Q [" `/ r/ |9 pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 z. e/ ]( T! e+ o
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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。 , H9 A; V+ b3 u0 { & f0 W8 O, t" ^4 {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. "8 m k3 `8 R' |( m; z4 N
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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。 * p2 }* m* [- c$ }. J, [" P + @4 P0 k8 P4 U; D K# a& l; mTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. s( y. z3 @- ~, s7 A$ ?2 {: M; ?! z, k6 R
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 & a' c6 n- n5 L 5 _" R4 M4 d# j; ]6 XLife. 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." 4 G! Z; D1 H! b# d* G : H6 p5 A& Z! O, j$ Y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”。 1 n% v* u( u; H) ?. L% K3 A, P a7 p: L& Q. O- `
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