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： ! [5 l7 I; y: b2 x* C5 q1 o# F 6 U/ f% Z O7 p1 ]/ f6 D6 |( _2 ~* R生命就是小甜饼： % A' m6 e5 f1 J& ~7 e" COne 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. 4 j* r ?3 S; | p $ n! b: o5 \7 K; `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”。6 ]6 E$ j" `$ v
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." Q* u3 ?) u& b/ _% I
5 j% j9 T: J3 w+ {( u, ^+ `" q: 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。$ ~# `/ q7 G$ A/ r7 B+ z
' Y% E: d* T T+ ~ VSome 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. - w# U8 b1 V# x % @% K8 B# h6 r, d6 p6 V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。4 B4 @1 A( E9 z9 c/ n7 x
, O! Y- Q: e4 l/ Z6 u2 nA 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. " V* s& m; F7 `% s0 W" U5 x3 ]2 K" D1 b+ c6 y! u: `
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。# l, C/ R! |$ {2 k6 r% U
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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.6 k- S Z7 r6 C" k, E1 j; w
7 Z9 |' x0 {# @: y6 w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。 3 F4 \$ a- L# J S# Y * _/ T+ N% f0 Q+ ]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. ' g! b/ z0 {9 N, P 7 X @: v0 E: ^& R3 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。" `7 D8 E; u. Z3 }. n
+ _5 Z/ w& ]2 o7 r g* N# HThe 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.8 c* L/ X# y8 X- q" m- ~3 p
8 K$ j, c Q; K* |# h0 w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。 " D) A) |" l }1 T' l$ w |( y0 _6 k3 K' [# y- \/ k0 {
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. 7 n$ j2 B d0 k* Q - z* ^5 U) }6 Y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。8 Y& B) t0 [2 x) M. q, D9 a! P* R) D
- \- U" N7 a2 t% }! l! V6 pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 0 ~* q% ?$ ?, r' v k3 q3 R3 E2 c* s7 e
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' ?2 Z9 X7 C% `) S5 R, z X5 A- k) m6 [" {
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ~7 o$ h; |; A' y* M
/ Y& r5 I+ G( |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。1 |* W0 ?: Z# o ?
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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. " ; x; u( H0 C/ w6 @ . T( B6 y$ ^* p# @2 `/ d$ x9 o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。 6 m3 F! \7 a: ^+ S5 p$ m7 t 7 F$ Y7 _) O4 TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ O d+ Y y, C9 V
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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。 5 B- ~% W; i0 C5 @8 F+ \% s 1 ]1 ?/ V5 D) F+ rLife. 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."9 M$ G) v1 q* `% t: v' ^
) h* E- Q2 k& d. G% V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”。% f1 j5 c$ t- ?! i