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： . s) W* x! _. D( { 3 C3 F; N1 b2 M$ a生命就是小甜饼：% Q: x6 R0 q& `. q; f% Y2 r9 e
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. ; b- L4 K C7 m, q1 A$ A- H4 R7 Q x% h9 V; @3 M6 _) ?
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”。 - N1 X: U, e& U' N# b" e) h2 e% [
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. * R% M, R; _; e0 ], p! S2 i! r: S $ m$ i- c! U* g c& S$ m6 R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。 % O) E1 m0 a. t9 n0 }" ~ 2 l U% C( x7 Z9 K3 YSome 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. 5 R* W5 B7 O7 P4 _6 Y6 L% y; @3 H$ |3 n: z
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。+ k4 S y; b. j
* V. u' \ p) A0 K5 B! YA 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.* o. R" R ~! C5 q$ i
! z# _$ a2 U& J; B. I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。 8 L$ q4 H8 E! A/ n" A 6 T6 P/ T7 k2 Z5 W% MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 5 g% [/ d7 @: ~ # ~1 Y' @4 i) o2 b1 H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。- S- {2 E7 e4 G& }" h7 [
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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.4 l9 }6 y1 I( L# Q* c' T$ A8 o6 g }
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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。$ E6 x9 A! C& k z# u
% |4 s$ ]+ J: b& f3 W) v0 l' ^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. J+ j8 v9 l. u* r0 k
3 {9 c5 v' a! ^$ C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。 , L5 x. C3 L' Y; @* T5 I9 A6 Q' s : N4 A( j1 q1 y; t [0 l' bYou 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. ' g2 B$ O! [" _
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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。 4 Q& F; P9 ?% [) ^# P: X. h# S * B0 Z/ z+ m2 h% vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; h$ H5 l& M! W/ V
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ d3 I! L+ r% [+ e$ k
6 ?# j$ K& |; ?; ?0 x2 THaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' f0 Y4 _! P+ X4 _; O
" k( f7 P/ Q0 w2 ~% g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。 / l5 K. y9 K; u% Q8 E8 o% e ) @% A. r! I3 D6 n$ A( t' O, ^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. " # z. Q2 b! q o+ G3 F. R' e& l' n/ [; z+ l5 `; G1 x% V
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。 : A- @! q4 F9 G- ~3 k \) O! w L 0 c" K, t1 O6 d8 s. jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., c: j% P( E& ?' }* X- x- F
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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 A! o- [$ g6 ~+ y ^# @4 H' e1 M! I4 r( D, a! y; H. R
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."; D; Z. l( G2 A. T8 A8 `/ V( H/ P: ?
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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”。# N- q) U$ r' Q* i+ l