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： ) x7 f+ O- v9 |0 j0 X- g# u 4 S2 W" t4 M7 O生命就是小甜饼：0 n' d; F$ A- P: }; t& 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. * f3 Y9 v4 E% s9 @" [! _& B 2 y1 T% n( q) V4 V- f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”。 7 H {9 ]: Z2 } v . Y, X3 h/ O0 ^' y; _- c0 uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 @! h4 \4 Z$ S b) R9 W' h6 K6 a- |2 u) X' V3 p5 y- c
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。 . z: T; @) V. T. T% }% O8 L9 b# \ q, H
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. 7 o5 ^. |& _& C5 R5 i. v" }5 ~" B
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。# l( R5 B9 D- {: }* V6 d
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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. 1 S0 z6 x6 {' N+ H' p 7 H+ D7 ~2 p& y* ` p& i2 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。9 g1 e4 D6 P; U$ [* [# K4 O7 z
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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.0 h0 D8 b. U# G7 `1 P
9 W, A9 o, z/ }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。 7 x9 m; g- {( L) U$ Z4 M. ~& M- Z1 b& V. O3 e
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.* a$ a+ }' T" C8 W9 ]
5 v$ O: ]! h* g, E) d3 S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。 - }) V1 P5 e0 r" G! _ 0 O( Q( l1 q* YThe 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.+ B% J( ~# D9 p3 O1 n' b
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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。 + o a. S- q, Y5 f% g8 w, n" s$ |6 t) w3 v+ `7 X* q
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. 0 G5 Y0 v: n5 G/ U# `, v7 v 9 T/ \& i: a5 E/ G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。 : ^3 r, v9 k" X2 i9 B: m2 }: q( P% Y# \: { B- }+ ~: g
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & H2 c! H% f: f9 x/ C4 _* p 1 i7 l/ Q7 p8 F: `你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 + p3 {8 S* D; C! r/ ~2 b5 q. r9 E5 O
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' Y9 X i' N/ D
) t& l8 S0 H( h' _9 [0 K, i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。 C8 L* k* u' f) {9 n) }! N1 E. [7 \
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. "* _' I8 H0 [0 c9 H; k
! ^1 ~3 V0 v+ R+ J$ i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。 2 g5 H+ u) b- k& l3 j; s, G* e2 t& Z- z. i" ^+ Z+ r
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 Z) ^1 i- Q6 T" v
! E% A% e- X& n4 Q“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 S v2 W. e7 L9 B& j9 ^7 o
4 m/ d" E( K" ?$ L/ ]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."$ Z# ?6 ?* M: F- L& m
. g1 W. A8 ?3 z6 R/ p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”。( N. S/ r) w! e1 Q; _