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： % o0 {2 m* h* H1 u* l; V8 J1 H8 k8 f0 i
生命就是小甜饼：5 _0 n e' } m+ M2 a
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.. |* z/ X- o$ \/ ~/ s5 ]
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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”。 S7 m2 b! Q4 P5 Y+ H' A
9 q8 \! }4 M" qIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) s2 v. { H0 |8 f
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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。 6 N/ c) N* ]5 X" b; T5 U# C ; D) ?+ Q" s$ E DSome 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. J( u2 l* r3 J0 `. v6 A7 A
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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。 \0 ~( y( L, P" Q8 V! s
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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.+ s7 p& [% H. z/ Z/ X
* V; M" \7 `8 `, E( o; u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。! n: y- s! X* Q7 K
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! i6 u0 Z. J& m& {7 ^, ?0 f
# c" X- S7 L, o5 |. w- {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。 ) G) Q" X% T' E) p3 o" M6 z; g' D% Q; M- 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. / ^0 F) \# d2 ]" r) Y, W) r) E4 f6 G8 c( c# k: n- ~( L) i: E
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 ~8 t6 ^1 j' j: R& y 5 @" G7 |+ g7 e, t* O, t# b' F2 fThe 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. " F( S: Z+ N# B+ e$ ^# E4 L 0 J; `- ^8 l* ^/ C- Y) }& p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。' Y6 {( m' f$ X3 t9 \$ ~7 i" y8 x
' M# {4 m! P, c, TYou 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. : J, K, |$ m! x) ?* C1 e- i0 m
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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。' c2 k# S4 I- D
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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.; g& O6 `5 S. D) l' ]' n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * d7 m6 t2 p: j/ q, f& a9 r$ ?( z: a! S) H9 O4 {: m: C/ @
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- b+ @' E( K! O# W
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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。 c$ c) z# V' j7 P
8 ?7 d) d5 s- r8 CFor 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. " - [* F# m, S! f( |( H6 C9 t$ Q% M8 V, 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。+ M8 {2 j0 S m5 t$ @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 ]% ], U7 I+ O- O: B# P. t' W
0 n" w- \* Q; q4 N“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" s( K a2 M( }5 c; w
6 a. \; a4 K/ x* `+ t: v( A g% Q" 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."7 i! W! b4 d$ Y- e7 J7 ^
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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”。 $ |, Q, k& d; y% ~1 \: [5 ^# y. T5 ^! P; K' G5 z& I
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