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： 3 [1 j- f, w% H) L, s6 y. ?2 @7 r7 T# ?! w: \
生命就是小甜饼：2 Q+ W" `, C8 z. X" Z1 i+ 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.2 c' e4 ?7 N8 y: ^
; O8 T7 h2 x% T0 w; q) ^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”。# ]- X" T3 v# c7 C- @
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ! B7 }6 j! x6 G0 @* j3 N) E' }8 I- U* z, P U
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 m! y& u; ^5 }4 a1 w 7 a6 ?. S4 Y9 |# V" cSome 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. . ~5 G( `1 c7 B8 D$ h9 ~% m4 S, w7 o) F4 S1 `( I
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。 * _, D- [5 \! H0 b) k/ X5 g, G; ?$ |! l6 ^1 m+ n% u
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." x& H! U0 F+ a4 l
6 V. L% _9 N, z2 E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. P6 d/ j$ Q
X# |; J3 g( R/ Z4 T6 L+ T) `When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 1 I3 z9 g: X- R' q7 m* _" [ % f5 t$ [$ B1 {$ `5 j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。 : j' y# W& ~0 y1 l7 ~( j2 o, }8 d
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.3 Q2 e7 T( a p/ j5 u L8 b
& [, i/ D; I8 Q- @2 W. T1 J' 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。 * {) ^' O7 K3 {9 a% E% ?3 @, i( b, c4 U+ H9 h' ^3 s6 d$ u
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.! _5 B5 S0 X+ O
3 `+ k- x8 ~6 b: E! _( z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。 3 T/ q$ }2 Q' ?' V: ? & |- Z" n3 P7 g6 K0 N0 wYou 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. - h+ r& L. w7 k' a& K/ Y& v1 Z U% @# A& \1 I w
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。 5 X4 X) C) P8 j7 @$ M$ {, U t' n% P" i, n$ j. P5 z6 g
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. % e" G6 d, T. W0 h# |: W% }# E; [ [! }- d; u2 o% ^
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ o5 q6 \, R0 S; k- r# s6 ~
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* P! [3 \' d; w
1 k7 H8 x1 `! n) `( j6 y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。 ; o8 ]8 W2 H8 P6 E# H4 o* N* \- B9 B4 L1 K% w5 _
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. " $ m! v M) w* s0 Q; @ ( H9 N. S0 U) S$ A" Q% _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 m# p( K) K, [9 _
7 m$ I5 D! l7 Y- W% {! TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # C o" w% c- ]3 @* d* [% l' p( w- X3 \: d! C
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% U" {; D) O2 F+ c4 u1 F# q
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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."5 B3 d8 U8 X4 x6 x, { a
- o: \7 g4 `" s+ q0 Q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”。- k1 E. N9 p5 [9 }* i& A i