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： ( b: G& ^1 N% Y5 Z, ^. M: V# [2 I' ]& z6 o0 u8 s5 {" T+ J+ a" Q7 j- e
生命就是小甜饼： 8 q) f6 V, k# d/ HOne 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.0 U' e$ h3 g) J. x$ j
+ k8 {9 Z2 _9 i0 E: p, L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”。" E! @' q0 \! U7 |; x2 k8 U
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # _$ r3 w+ ?" ]6 I; g - n: Y8 G& `% l5 B( O. ^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。# {2 |; R; V/ }' l; r4 j$ Z% }
* c& x( K$ C6 X3 d+ B! ^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. + }4 p9 s8 q9 j c7 n/ K $ M" S" H9 R! k( @( u+ X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; Q* _. Z! G! M4 c$ A
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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. ) g: K N1 r9 V2 g* N- L: I* K+ |& v1 w# ^. T6 C2 u: k( j/ a
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。* A% p/ i5 Z4 ^5 U y9 a$ ^
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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. * [, ~, R( H6 D- a) M; Z- t3 | s. S# Y; X8 C" H( L, t
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。; B5 Y8 P$ y" a& m# v) a0 C
$ l+ U) A) V" Y) cBut 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. $ y7 ^& [3 ]( P* s! i9 S , ` d7 q. P4 _9 a. M# g7 `, 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。' D: R6 z& z: R+ p+ I
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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. + W- P- k$ h* o, T ; Z3 F# R, g1 {! |7 \; k! \& O2 c0 ]( _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。( ?9 T: ]) }' C6 }, J: f
2 ~. a( ? _' }, E2 RYou 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. ( ]. o+ P' E0 ~3 v! N9 c) q
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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。 A+ O0 A# E3 F8 _
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. " q. @( A$ O# [" p# j1 w3 v 6 }4 a& V; e! s" x2 u5 n) f1 _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ ?: A' s( ~8 L
. d7 h6 i2 S7 p2 H) F. U, Y. v% tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 1 d# E% y" x; I; S ! S8 P' R+ _0 N' V# R) d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。 8 J- m- Q5 [1 K& `) y ' d) l% q+ U6 t, L0 J3 ^! A8 UFor 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. " 1 t1 Y5 r- w0 K5 u7 g2 }1 S* T. _0 W$ h; ~
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。1 [2 g+ m1 l+ a
e/ s1 |- ^6 q" c' f, {2 e. UTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' ~, e! V% Q! I
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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。 b3 Y+ r' o6 O2 _7 l' x. N5 r9 ?! o! Y1 _7 ~# t& e3 Y3 M- H
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." : f- {0 }( E+ @! v1 ~) t# S0 ~, J! `/ j7 N
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”。& B. l, c; \0 \ m