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：, {: `% R+ d/ ~; R8 I
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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. 9 m: f! l5 E* w0 x0 q/ H; K3 `/ Z + Q6 a$ e! }1 a) k8 R, ?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”。 9 l w$ U! `& B9 T8 k' {$ t9 D4 ]3 x9 [0 Y6 T+ d7 m5 v# ^9 k a
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ E, M4 O& P; T/ x$ c
& Q: _1 g# y$ j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。 U7 q' ^6 S" Z+ f& U. |) x0 X, P8 A. _: X+ J. }
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.: [* Z4 ~3 M/ H# E8 h1 e+ z
- A+ N) I+ \. f$ b: @+ f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。 # {' y- Z2 d& Y) n+ h6 K9 W . o8 G. o o2 Q4 w# GA 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. 2 g# t; w6 V: h' D/ |8 x. u * n! H. _( D" f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。 6 `/ `% z* D6 r8 o% r8 m 1 f3 ]4 k2 Y: f+ ?+ XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. * @& Q7 m; R) f( c G ! m( `8 I/ Y! I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。8 T. h7 Q# Y1 T
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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, j6 i, A) Y: _. S. z9 B3 r' h: w* k; t
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。 4 s! Q% d$ l9 h$ }. j6 h( k @! i $ a& [8 Y) L6 qThe 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$ v+ }- m* i; \ ' Y C$ w2 R9 L3 v9 g% 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。 ' Z8 w# Y! k; x. d' i " L: p m& o: `3 H* _) j) xYou 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. ) r1 Z) C- V D$ {. e) F: C
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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。3 H% E' x/ @# d, R- i
9 J+ O0 D# `3 M" |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- @, k6 w) l% l" W
) f4 ~( U2 ?' t6 f" X0 FHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ^# x. T. r& N' X8 v' p8 `# c- H- V9 P; \* o# a) b# k2 S( q
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 _6 ~ {- n: P; H! R + A5 a- p2 H) V$ g( r% G& O: |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. "2 W, a# V2 j& L6 @* r
. B# W9 q% x" q- g. }: E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。' X$ V8 p2 ~$ y, Q0 E9 v
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " T1 R2 r4 O( `+ D+ z/ a( I" R7 N: B7 q2 r
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 O5 W- k4 a( z: s. N2 D' ~: k & d" I' j! l5 W U+ ZLife. 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."1 L$ Q) a. j& W! w" J$ o
9 G3 i9 J1 v. G' t5 ~& ]& k8 J1 S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”。! D2 S+ a0 q" @/ Q6 P7 J! ?3 K
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