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： : o2 b0 I% {% A' m ' b6 j" L$ M5 ?1 p' [; Z生命就是小甜饼：. z- l9 e" v+ R4 S, D
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.# u" F Y' ^" X3 y7 Y0 m8 G
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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”。. L" H" c# |% u* p5 R( g0 e8 Z$ w7 S. ~
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: g6 C$ g- i! F! K( W9 ?
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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。0 B5 F1 K4 a+ G$ ~6 C1 K
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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. 0 e3 r, e& ]' u7 `, o) b9 e/ m0 s% X) q1 r6 x# {! l2 k6 _& O
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。4 W, J( V0 y; x- t# m8 M
# ?, `7 g: f, q4 n3 R% jA 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. " u4 r4 |' s/ M: L0 G x T" T$ S1 q' G$ \
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。 & E K6 m) U3 v, _) Z- V/ b2 O) d# s# P) R( Y/ [
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' D; q! P* ^* ~$ A+ v
) q l) o4 v3 s1 N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。2 [% _: I6 t& g
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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.4 H8 ]& L$ f& F% }
) l# U" u- l. l7 n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。 % S; I9 r+ r7 G+ ^4 q" \: A% |0 K1 b6 r' g
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.) B2 r$ T' e' q2 [: L
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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。 % h6 b6 C8 |4 W2 B, _* Q3 ~7 w- m+ g7 U( r- \
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 q# N6 u8 t. o7 p, J& v+ W+ {! D
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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。4 x% X" x( w& W
, A( y, y0 o- v HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) _. w. ]" U) G2 d [+ x 3 z1 n3 D7 W" }5 m0 s7 b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 B3 A) C" i3 a- c( q0 D4 q$ k* Z" Z1 R1 o! Y' R8 {+ z9 s/ V. t# \
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. e+ I$ y( b, O1 ^8 R" { : V u+ r' R5 l' Q0 `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。 $ i) f% c1 `7 L6 [9 I( N+ g' w' s6 Y9 Y# R) m+ {* R. B
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. "7 N% g# j1 `! f% z0 Y# A9 k
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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。 6 z& B v. T, M5 J6 G: s2 ] w, c8 \' Q! l9 Y
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) a: E) Y6 s2 P% n2 {$ L' t6 y* L# |3 u, F$ F" Q+ d* S
“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 C. J% ~9 l+ Q: M+ K
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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." # i/ V- }8 y% Q9 R7 b+ w) {9 k4 C3 _
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”。 ( X& |1 i, D% @' o/ Y* J+ x. }: y ( _7 \1 }# [; u4 |[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html