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： 0 P7 [$ j/ H8 A& b4 c% U" R # ~2 E$ ~; t) {生命就是小甜饼：/ w% \; ?4 q4 j( I" m8 Q
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. $ N/ f: J! F- k+ P& i/ v6 y - T/ i) B5 u, P, K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”。; _! q' j) q# M1 d$ ^: w
1 @0 g8 l! d" U4 M6 ~/ BIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 Q7 N% M( c' Q5 G& j% h
+ v1 P, `+ C0 I* l& t) @7 V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。! U% Q R+ o, l9 h% ^/ I. H
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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 c$ r4 @( @+ ^3 ]' ]" P9 P8 Q2 `- Q Y% B& G0 g* q5 N
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。# K6 H' J3 N, u* e. ?& _3 S
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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.% m2 J* d: o1 @0 s8 x0 C
( w9 J9 _4 S% x. f) \- s/ x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。 + k: u! N% a' G* f \$ e- K( {( ?2 }. ?4 u2 J$ |
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. X, K2 P. ]) h. j7 z2 ~* S
6 m7 H% ~2 g* x6 s' ^9 V# `% }# R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。 1 P% S9 k$ B- c0 t" }% |7 f) Z b3 S$ x& Y1 |7 F* N
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. $ S6 }4 Z0 s- j4 Q$ N6 m ! e( B! t/ l1 D1 M4 v- }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。0 x" p0 }/ c4 \2 z
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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.# u2 r" [$ f, w" D# j9 T0 u
2 _# P& c4 b$ A$ @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。 " l% S# u6 \1 p0 S5 D x7 ^, M" `# m6 P# `! y1 A. w
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. ; r4 W( @3 }2 H; u5 l* i" g l. k
! f$ y& i+ B2 K; ]You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ' w/ d3 `* G1 N5 V " F7 _ ]+ I; T. M. ~( J5 I Q* Q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( Y4 ^% d4 t$ q7 w# I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) w! ?. r% |# T
' m' w% O$ n, h/ [. a+ c) LFor 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. ": L$ g) t* J# R) f( y1 d
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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。 . j1 `" J. M- t8 P4 J0 m2 l7 D% t" x0 ?# ?% V
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , W9 ~+ ^5 P; U. S; |! u4 h5 K- a7 `! \# F: a% B7 {
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 t" G5 \" B2 F8 ^& p7 x
& n2 d' w" B' l3 A* oLife. 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." 6 M! N" C1 Z& y* H0 [" ~* 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”。 % y9 F1 \& z9 H2 {% d2 Z2 @+ t6 C2 T/ A
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