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： $ f% E. Q P. q# Z% E 8 u+ k6 [4 w/ i8 y生命就是小甜饼： 8 \- {# v t8 S( DOne 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.+ ^8 X9 P! [& \
K3 I! v& L4 S# ?! l/ k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”。 [; M; t" B* y% W0 m j6 g! g1 b . p, G+ ~4 H7 x, t8 x9 v" b, NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / K& c' V3 l \) b5 K4 [, ^0 e* F9 G) h4 c& d1 z# A q
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。 4 [" Y9 ?0 ?; A ) l6 B- m1 S7 ~/ }5 O5 zSome 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. # k8 w3 J b3 M( X) e ) c j7 ?( p& D/ t3 y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。 $ L/ v$ q8 f( M+ J# {+ L4 k * z9 U# X3 k4 X' fA 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.1 y( O: g! I3 x9 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。+ Z9 r4 q2 ?$ S
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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. s5 U+ H- b- ~' Y . E4 Z: _6 z5 L( V: R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。 ; Y2 u/ T/ w( i7 ^/ s 6 ~# D6 g( T2 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., \. v4 ` X% g' J, `& ?
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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。 6 F/ [, R+ P9 z3 J; l. y% Q 7 f9 K2 N, R% r' ]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. $ c c6 F3 ?. Y) `2 C. Z$ x7 i7 m
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。 ) o) b: K) y" _- F6 n4 b ) M- l1 z! S( m1 W& e7 ~; }) SYou 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. ; C$ l1 c) r$ g- e. v+ P# j$ Q* N: ^3 o; m3 ]/ \8 t
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。 3 J. `9 G* a" K. W- m 0 } W9 y$ T3 B$ m/ A: O1 TYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & b: \; |6 M: k / g* ^1 i$ y6 L* h4 f你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; Z3 h% L+ W( a* u! N/ Z
& d0 p4 e" U, xHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: B* Q9 l9 |2 i2 U/ _/ r4 E
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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。 ) p9 H+ A1 g8 p2 ]0 O6 {: t! b9 Z) y
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. "' Y: ?7 |/ `* u" }2 P ?
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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。. j+ M2 b, u9 n" G
@4 p/ K: t( g# s( r: xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* a/ b3 j, A# w; A% r
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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。 y+ P5 C5 [$ u* B3 i* W& q! T6 y& J ^( ]3 Y9 ~- S$ y4 l
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.". W3 V/ {. c1 w) [. ?: c- c
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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”。% M7 J% U1 |( S$ S/ ~/ a. f6 _
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