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： 8 E y; b+ J1 W . Y1 l# f a3 G `生命就是小甜饼： ; p' |7 [$ y. i, s1 t% V+ T$ a) sOne 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. # _3 L* h7 W2 t4 U ( Y# v7 K9 d; _7 h: i, r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”。 ' X7 i5 }( Z9 y4 ?* J- f1 F$ B8 i 9 V! G, g. M$ SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& ^* }" o! ]# H; e& N# n$ r2 }
& z0 K9 S8 E% s# U8 o3 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。 , g4 N( E9 _: H' L4 t! ~( `! h' D2 f% M6 e
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.% {; H0 ]( ]+ l* @* p. Q
3 `' e$ U9 Z- M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。 % J( x0 _* _* m8 h3 D6 M' }2 i: c! Z+ i: Q* ]+ L# v$ t* T( Q
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.' y0 k* l0 o/ i% e* W/ L0 N
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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。: P4 J, {0 w9 T( ?9 i. h
$ q& r$ `$ C1 _! \' w1 i/ dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* {- L, n1 x+ o% P" i
( _. V& T- A' \. A- F- V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。5 U0 S+ N$ J% v) I
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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.; H9 e3 k: A+ ]. p- P/ k
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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。 - h; r' \/ e, h( z! q% y9 a! r3 c7 W9 G/ ]9 E% ?& z
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 R# E1 L6 K' t% E% @7 U6 e* l$ q- m0 T2 t) |% u
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。5 @7 Z) W) E2 u* l9 }1 ~
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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. : L; k. U. T+ i! I# p7 R
' G1 s) c1 b7 i, k9 H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。) N1 x& L+ \9 J; z- K/ k w
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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.- W, N* b9 T0 g6 N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- _; }6 ~( }3 Y0 q+ J# h
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 m# J( y: X2 o! E6 w) ^# t
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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。 4 a' W, Q* D( C$ G G& Q- B9 ]7 k# |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. " / C# P' ^% ~7 F; M, U+ c0 J8 |- A9 X/ N) j
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。 9 [# @4 I/ F. r; r3 t$ Q 6 \3 d, L- H/ g0 g" Y! y# m. fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 l c6 q! ?" R, T
' Y+ K m% e# _, ?3 U+ c" y“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * B/ `& b3 `! s3 l. Z9 i & l& C8 c. h" }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."/ T" _6 [) P) {% [. n
1 |7 M. u/ J' R% U' I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 t% E5 P* K) Y* R) p! W+ x
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