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： 2 i( n+ f& O3 Y, ?" `& F' t5 P, g; W. S. f
生命就是小甜饼： 9 G4 b; ] j1 X. `2 r0 oOne 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 T4 V/ u" {: r6 Q M
: B1 G% R5 P+ L" Z" ~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”。 , `8 N u" v4 F) U4 v2 t$ X- i9 M
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 z8 E2 A: d- w' d; K7 [6 w 6 V# x, u0 ^. H4 E/ O* f6 P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。$ f5 s) Z4 Y Q
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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. 0 @. r' u7 J" E - V ]5 \ N; Z" _3 L$ k6 r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。$ \! _& E( T/ |. }5 R+ N0 u
5 J/ i5 J* k+ N4 u# g# tA 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." d+ p3 G" D- G3 t7 p0 K% { F
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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。 : e8 ~8 M; T" R, @" H) Z8 N2 t$ T+ Y# K' P5 J( L
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ M4 s2 Q- |0 A4 ]
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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。* ?/ e& M6 C- m6 [" n
7 D' M2 G; L9 NBut 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.0 l2 u) j8 D8 l7 w$ |4 k/ C- d
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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。& r' C) p) S5 f, a) W$ G& L
7 n3 k# z' t, R0 l7 C( `6 _" i4 uThe 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. & A5 o9 Z9 s+ L3 T3 }0 S( t: [! r; H6 o. F
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。 1 m' s* [* C t- n5 q) u M6 k# B) u" w& h9 f% {; C' J
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. : u7 X# H* D# _" ]; L3 t
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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。& P* F1 s& o5 S @. E, f
, c- h' x& O4 B9 YYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: S ^& _, O c) H
1 R% q6 b4 d" IHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: e7 j) \3 O6 X3 ?+ o
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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。" k0 e/ I5 t' y
; M& \5 E- R. x! d6 G6 w* s; e! Q1 RFor 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. " ' \0 u( z& ]5 U' T/ V) l" O6 b+ | [; r, s/ s# n9 }
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。* G' t/ o8 z; |3 `* j
7 q8 ?. Z2 H, O9 b# l2 T( h7 R3 _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 6 @; @+ X2 K' x3 p " z+ p( ]. B! y/ X- r7 {* m“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 u- }* H& E) [
1 F6 y3 o" ~0 R6 x2 \& mLife. 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." 6 n3 c$ E+ \3 V2 S( t! c$ E * l- Y% ^% H: B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”。5 g& }, x4 w2 m2 d! E' K
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