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：7 z" ?! z j* I$ ^% n0 q7 e
! K8 _* p6 B, {# @2 C6 X生命就是小甜饼： / h/ q4 |; i" \. W0 V9 U& nOne 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. . I7 s& E) ]( [3 l3 Y7 m: R6 V9 F5 g" U2 ~% I
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 M+ f) v+ A+ G7 I3 V/ e# A v' P/ H2 g: G: c
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 Q1 Y! Y4 O+ {$ y- ?; Z! j% a# W$ ^4 n8 ^6 M) |
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。! V5 C% {# J) G! M$ X, u
$ g% q% R# ^2 F" D0 DSome 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. 3 C5 ~2 G" f3 b0 V1 a" {) B* R * Z" e J; }% v `) A# A5 A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。) ~8 ]6 v/ W( M4 _! S4 Q6 |
6 @1 L4 |. K/ B7 E, H8 H1 LA 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. . X3 e( l1 P& x6 W3 {' A4 E5 Z5 c d. p- s
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) ^, T! W) \0 W
6 ]+ M& {- ^- q: i. T! `9 L, b. nWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. , G. ~2 w, g6 ^6 j q6 ] % n3 Z; }) q& X) E% }: c$ v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! _* B& r# j# Q% ]6 x( S! b6 ~
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. & ]* m6 }8 M- x 5 J C& Y+ M+ w# A) z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。9 ]# f9 b5 \- m! [8 y( A" ^ w
" T# g5 I; m7 d! X* @8 {3 MThe 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.7 m# {8 q% F% ~
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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。 ; {! a, a9 W9 _# ^6 u3 K" z8 _3 d: N2 q8 D& V2 }- |& 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. ( p. ?' Z i1 E3 n- P! @
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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 |- V# @% k N( b+ X- U, p& c" {& t5 F% Q7 o
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 z" z0 v- M! N8 f% y1 h* @
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 v& v+ y. V3 [7 p# f! }0 ] . {" i8 `6 p+ L: B6 j/ r8 VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. R, M! V; b+ Q. r
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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。8 M5 Y# ?& z7 \& q" N2 b; m
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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. " 4 M8 ]3 v P! Z8 G& k/ d9 W1 T ' O' I- n6 M$ ^2 I& p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。% q' G& u# K& ^" `
: q: X4 Y' l9 X2 m$ h! r qTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 y0 i) M$ E% y- c6 a9 u M
) C' W/ Q& K- g9 |) K( o“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ) ]* m2 X {8 u) @3 z6 Y5 H1 } 3 K& o& [# f1 m3 o4 H; X) U6 H8 ULife. 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." : z7 i; q. a* I0 j, S+ K N) W8 L E % G1 `( \3 `/ J8 G7 {1 e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”。 2 H- Y! \" m8 r1 r3 }6 U/ K$ s) R. F9 G! O6 L5 h! x5 N) {9 T
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