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： 4 E9 b! @; O" K' F2 Y4 f3 N' N) |
生命就是小甜饼：7 o3 s" }+ M& C* n
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.# Y; v; M5 L! j( }, D2 P- m1 u
. Q! ^1 \* \) {1 S$ R8 T+ c: W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”。- {/ N5 m: d- ?
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % U; l' l% y0 z4 { k3 h% K6 v' N5 z7 X/ n4 k1 [1 i( ?3 N* f
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。9 b m, ?0 v: K" J. A! e# j/ R; m6 ^
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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. + s2 ~% e. |( h# }4 p 4 b( q7 _( x2 h. b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。- W6 _( O' w! S
4 V+ D( V% w. W6 N3 lA 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.' P& {) x) G& S, G% L( i
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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。* o, V. x3 w2 Z7 U) z7 A0 ^ Q
' `+ N# M. G1 oWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! ?! e: l; }# S$ p) _! q. C" y* ?+ \
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。 4 O* E: E' \4 d7 p* h # b- f C; a- sBut 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. ) M$ r: @; e- K! j$ f- X & g/ ^2 i$ X& }/ j' [! T. y% R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。 4 }3 Z9 I c/ Q8 N. J; R 3 D* V3 a9 W+ Z; i! Q) g: tThe 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. ) r' U. H* h* H- D" v" K+ ?% Y5 s2 |) r0 a
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。 & j4 @% s* `* y- l 8 m" ?6 \. F! U' l) z" oYou 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. * Q$ D7 b* W. F2 ]6 T
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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。) ?! o7 ?! \8 X; K5 m3 ^1 r
2 i) O; _) V' y/ p0 a% dYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) x! _4 u& r: J- u6 |. y3 x. t6 u
3 p7 p, ~* a# f$ L" G9 p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 Q( v6 u0 y# l. g8 l& z* P
. c( {0 l$ m, v( _+ qHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - ]0 V+ a8 k4 z- W7 o, q7 r8 g! Q0 a9 ^, u; m+ o" ^
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。/ B8 r2 i9 F; g3 P# U! x- i
& l4 a q1 y6 z. [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. "6 n. t, L: Z! q- c0 ?. g% b
8 _* h% }8 g' u% F. ~ p8 [$ c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。 ; [* f, H2 c" a/ M0 Z! c( u! a% V$ T/ ?6 z5 }2 J5 ]
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 6 V P% ^ l2 L4 y# p- ]' ^$ q$ ]0 x; G( o0 R5 ?( F
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - D# W& x( I& j, O3 r) s # u x6 J6 F* K7 vLife. 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."& r* Z! m/ p7 c0 m$ l" k7 [: I
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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”。 - O$ u* ?* t, ^; v K2 E+ f! z O3 S7 A' f* s" k: K
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