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： 1 M- h8 T: ~6 @5 ~: V- `7 D" A b( ]4 L; C
生命就是小甜饼： ! V" t% C' U G& I) ~# j9 QOne 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.1 Z6 _% x+ @. ?- M# A) v& G" {5 h8 d
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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”。- X0 a; d: i, _2 f- w$ k5 ~
& M% b! y5 k2 V4 A; \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 7 n9 O2 Z/ X4 `2 l8 A& n' V . B# k' ]0 r3 D2 h3 o/ ~; q7 {' b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。 & J, v9 k+ M4 v; I* u+ {" K4 O% k0 J. G( R3 t/ w1 U* d* R
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.4 u2 V1 V0 J4 K* n
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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。* u7 U+ [$ g, Y3 @7 `! ?, z
4 V1 [7 ^2 ~& E# G8 K s/ zA 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. n8 F4 p' _& ?
, d4 P* O* P/ y0 m6 ?7 S& O9 {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。 u# ~ p2 b9 g* [& g5 D1 k. x; K7 f8 V- H0 W( i9 y
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 R8 N: V: i: r& @" a3 Q
1 X$ e- T0 M$ Z; f) P/ Z9 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。 - h2 N3 E. x. J9 Z: r6 ~' Y8 \ ^+ J/ ?
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.. t& N# v$ D9 x8 k6 l2 c1 `
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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。 . E" o% m$ ]' t. E% \5 z }- P- U% t5 g) f, m0 f' 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.3 ]) D2 V; k v' G0 Y. e4 L3 ^
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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。 , {8 p% w6 V% Z " b4 q5 U# a* t3 ]' v3 R3 ]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. l) v# Z' s% o6 a, z3 K. ` i3 y4 q4 D
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。 2 j& t) L) c8 D, r7 N1 b8 M 4 {# v( e+ c, u6 e+ k7 h, sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 p% o5 r u$ ~) i* S0 t2 q4 k2 E
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 I$ z w6 I, j' A& b- T1 x# ]8 ?" X2 n( k9 Z- u# b& J
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ U5 o* s3 }: f& n2 g
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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。5 s5 V( t7 A1 K. j2 ^
! T# E1 _8 R/ i+ _0 ^% X* PFor 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. " 1 O' H1 C# `+ f" M; t9 o s& _9 [9 T$ ^4 Y6 a; _, N6 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。 `3 w$ Y- F8 y5 g+ l$ p8 v$ w* H/ u% S9 s
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. P. V4 \( Q* `. q & [3 ^/ K3 D, L# i' o% _“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 l u; j* x# v& \ D8 r a) h$ _; ^+ H5 V5 b0 gLife. 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." r5 f$ `7 ~9 \6 _; j& j
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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”。 0 ?+ K$ X2 I2 O; z, d4 p" h S4 ^$ X8 b' m$ X8 u# N" D
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