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： + A C3 a2 r4 q, b* p% Z# n# Z J6 _) t4 j& n3 m2 z
生命就是小甜饼：5 T$ H6 N; s0 E* _8 c) p
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.0 f; J( H9 q/ ~9 r- E7 N% C
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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”。: E& R# Y# n" u1 O
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. T f6 q9 ~) ?7 D0 n0 I2 J
' Q3 b7 D% o7 q/ p9 f2 P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 j: \# X( W/ D7 }: C! i1 M1 o. i) x, `; y$ w: u3 S7 c
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. 7 ^9 q8 f1 E z: E" E; d4 S: [
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。# t6 {2 u5 ~7 N8 h5 i8 F- m
' o' I, X- z7 O1 o# ]- k" JA 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.. z, q9 c% Z7 }
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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。 $ F \- H5 T! C. Q( E$ b- T( D. Q+ ?+ u
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / w7 W$ g% I, k% a5 Q ~5 G* g R * S( E: C8 X+ U8 e, b- O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 {* g# f) | z! f& l" H) i( i
x! i: B7 z- ]. T6 }- @! [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 z, u1 ?+ f6 F' V/ t+ v* X% G ' {( w2 R7 s+ r) R) _# J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。. j \1 z0 ]4 b* F2 H
8 p: `) c# m$ M, D: D1 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.- }* ~8 s) G; c: H
( J+ u$ b+ f- N3 }# D7 M* b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。0 P( a7 W& I7 C4 i
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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. & ~) B# w! W+ B. H* e
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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 v) Q. e$ y) c2 Q' G0 ?
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; V! x% O$ P6 A
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 n0 L% u T5 B9 p' D ( O! J5 k5 @$ |$ r" aHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - F5 e# \# @, J/ G3 J# j ' O8 `! s- _& n# X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。9 s _) x7 e" q; z2 i+ Y$ T% x
) p& s. v: W8 |5 Y8 f4 q( @0 QFor 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. " - U% \8 a$ d! v& }" C" Y9 }# U9 `: G5 ]2 |4 S6 c g
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。- Y. M1 a2 S- k* h1 ]; ~- ~
$ D s: b8 X( z+ s: [+ J5 S3 wTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + y* D) o; I# c% e% X7 B4 D6 w8 t( N% l# ?
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' u, D) q2 J1 z/ F3 o6 X; ]4 M: Y( f8 i: f. Q8 p6 S! f* g# ~
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."2 F. j9 j# u- H+ A: |$ O
! F( E8 u. o4 B! z. N0 P1 n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”。4 E5 a$ [) g/ y7 N