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：# W. ~: b0 B5 U2 D
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生命就是小甜饼：( i7 W' V7 A( o; q
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.7 @7 B7 h) T% j3 U# @0 L# x) d
! k8 w2 Z9 |% e: Y7 R/ A, t) n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”。 0 `" m7 W8 y/ u* \2 W q2 Y" H 3 L# G9 H& P6 q' ]( \* NIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 V* w4 g G) L7 ?# z
. z B$ b4 P9 t) d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。 ; V" N- V9 v2 U( _2 C& f+ i, t5 d4 Q* j) l& P) S
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.( A; y3 B# y1 k8 M7 g1 R$ t
5 W5 e5 _. B$ I \5 ~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。 ) q0 L0 a8 v: j2 R6 |3 Y) y5 u : c$ Q2 Y$ Q. J3 m& ]) m" A) y K |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. 7 s2 A0 P W' I! h- s) {, C1 @; ?2 j* O' ]* m8 V; [
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。" v7 Z+ [& p. e- R3 Q7 b
( z- [0 C& b2 y. M9 j- y# IWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# {7 E# e* t$ u% O9 e! R' E3 u
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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。 2 G8 X' E2 {% t1 [+ N) H + @- v. b0 `9 b$ LBut 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. ; ]$ \( G7 \# L) |$ x3 }3 D F' s$ `6 A _
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。 # l* r( ^, x9 F0 u# Z" N4 g* l m3 U! V8 _3 j6 p
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. 0 S9 T7 B4 Z1 ~ ?9 Z+ b, r; k$ F2 ]
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。- a' V4 ^* X! w3 L. t% E
5 I9 D: J6 y6 @! [; B- C5 {, G; O! x- C* lYou 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. 9 p2 p0 g6 {) B + `8 l! X$ ^. o9 E3 l9 R$ j( W) E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。" f* I' l6 [* ?3 a) ]9 v
2 i. T( h0 Y) B* E% pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. V1 { @! n4 f8 F x2 D* F
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 & |5 U: p) {' c. c0 ~ $ K+ X9 `$ s0 Q2 g$ Z: {Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 G3 a* ~- X( m m* i, E 5 V& H8 a( |+ s( N a! j, q% n8 b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。, R- j( v1 ~7 ~2 j- e
9 g) q8 h. ~$ O! s. N4 eFor 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. "9 Z9 B: j( J1 r9 ? q- A$ R# h
; Q/ o' l: H, J* [; s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。 0 \$ ?7 h5 J! L& U7 x u; Y' i: x2 F* V0 W
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 W2 ?8 l. @3 d1 t: l2 D1 \
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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。' f" |9 a2 E! \4 m' R7 E3 L
) N) p1 x: x" u* j4 VLife. 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." $ E" Y+ t' J- w+ t, C8 v6 O* d6 G, q3 o/ A* x1 s
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”。. w- ^1 Z7 E9 L1 n9 U! Z4 D; }5 m2 m' c
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