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：# V, @0 f% H2 ]+ e2 v
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生命就是小甜饼：- j v- m4 l; Y5 a, X/ R; x' N2 z/ p
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. 2 U7 j( G2 Z0 {# C * A, ?- t9 _- e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. W, D5 }- {/ j
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ o' s( B3 { O
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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。) \4 h. z8 {7 M/ r2 c) D! m) n
/ ^, y, w) w4 C: 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./ j3 W" _) {; \( k
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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。# u8 j0 p+ L2 B& \
3 G I% I2 ^) Y: J& S! pA 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. 6 j3 ^ V5 _- C0 o4 z, I$ O% e& g. b, t; O* J
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。7 e& T1 D' c! A: X; P" I0 i! 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. q, R1 Y3 D& `+ Y( i g! |
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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。; N2 [" O, i9 @
+ K2 B$ K$ y2 n2 wBut 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.' r# n7 m$ ^4 h7 w7 Q0 A* x" b7 Z
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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。 2 `7 Y9 b7 i6 Q; m ) [. @" \ b1 x8 T# bThe 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.* T H9 z$ i7 }
! ?: V) p3 N6 s* j2 b. f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。* j0 x0 d# f7 A) c( `& `2 p
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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. , `' I8 U! k S5 k5 F( \: E! r, w# W* J6 C1 c2 M
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。 ' y( E1 ?# n( o8 X, m; U0 c1 M3 M7 Q, q f
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. - p' x8 _6 S+ N' ?5 ]- w3 L# h$ r/ g6 |
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 u" o8 j) \7 ^4 `+ `
. b# }& d1 h' T! |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 1 K" N$ ?, `6 O- g1 b; k2 i6 P @* B" N
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。 ( n3 f7 l7 t3 J* y2 E9 ?8 m, \ 6 T# n4 s+ z6 [$ [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. " P# ^! ~1 ]* x/ W3 Y3 @- [
4 a( M/ n# h0 M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。 + {' d; z0 p9 f9 y5 m4 `9 l/ a0 v& w5 S! ?+ N
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 ?8 [4 S& ?# @/ r) c, }, d1 c4 L0 d% r) f' i4 B
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 0 @) T. C; H) s. r6 h 7 f; @, z ]& ? ?4 R. qLife. 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." 5 ^8 ~% T5 P: `( h' S2 p7 d * C% [ f' [: Z W+ I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”。# A# E; @ N2 u5 A/ z- u# _! X