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：: h2 o9 y4 |, |% e( O
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生命就是小甜饼：4 G6 }& \, H) X _
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. : ?: n8 C* N, B o8 E) u. N2 w& o 4 e+ \) W: _& u* R5 _7 L. j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”。3 E6 y- w z4 q4 ^" W
: o0 X1 O5 E+ f( k, j: N: ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." A9 H# K* f" Z. o
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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。 1 r) s2 Z$ ?7 v8 d4 ?4 R * I- ~ n( h) P+ `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. . o2 f+ ]9 B0 x( z! E. i& } c- A1 |+ F1 I9 e- O, _: p l3 R2 U
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。( \6 \: @! ~' q' u9 Z d# p
3 `0 N+ d6 ]# y; t" }* B' I* f; CA 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.9 A, t. j7 _/ K. l: W
% {! Y& Y( _; i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。2 I d* s2 D' u# I$ T
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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./ K, C/ y& U0 a5 d# h# G5 y
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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。 $ I }8 X& w7 H8 @' I+ U& o1 n2 ^ " A7 k2 a7 N% c6 R+ ^5 G9 f xBut 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. - ` q1 ]0 [' r/ N5 S0 n! f' l6 @; J) K. U& |
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。" _5 f- f6 ~6 W
% X; O* F# s, f! [6 ?4 H5 MThe 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.& i$ c- l3 s6 Y5 e" r! v+ J0 R D
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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。' s; U1 {8 E# o2 K' d3 T6 s2 W
' h! N a# y& H$ Q8 |/ KYou 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. / x% Y) l5 J+ Q/ P! p P& m' G" y
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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。 ( n1 `# g* r. N% l6 D7 Z# F3 F6 B5 E' F. Z2 t
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , F: z* h& f3 t$ E. Q 1 N8 Z$ ]/ d* b! z; v你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " {: s1 q! ?0 ]0 u/ C- e6 O) R& Y3 Q4 I2 ]
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 \: S" J; t- Y; P# N( Y6 z) R; r6 `! z% e
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 M* Y2 h) B9 i- Q7 `
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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; m ?. F4 f8 D* p6 `# ?( _, Q& C6 |
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。/ `5 Z9 W2 h- A8 y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. V/ A2 }$ k- t- W3 G& E 9 A2 f! S- ]! I; H“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 & _. \9 ?" [+ ^, x, [5 u/ m) r1 X- d+ [3 R
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." : o% w3 U8 R0 |$ C( K. {) _! h9 S" e% i8 G8 K, J
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”。 : ^% D* g' o' j& O4 B8 x; v! o2 |7 q; [, L! o9 H, H/ L
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