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： [4 k2 t- S7 E; f' \
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生命就是小甜饼：+ f$ J5 d: B: }; z. h
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.. `0 R. e1 y, }; k+ {2 |: ?
) P4 I' B7 _3 N5 q! ?' L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”。, ?8 V3 e( I1 T9 q2 U9 V! ?$ l
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# w d8 ~' L% q% o0 \5 m
: |% [( u8 F4 Y, h! @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。 ! Q: Y* b* w* C7 Q4 ?) z! C% g! g# u$ m3 B* R- i7 @8 ]: U
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.+ u) l4 N- i/ F7 c/ _) ]7 o/ e3 I
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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。 * X% B; t* I+ F# x- s+ G 9 v! I+ q/ b5 Y& ~$ J6 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.; H2 H$ m4 [+ S4 S: ^
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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。 * {0 M7 I! Y$ h6 k+ E9 E7 S5 I; p9 z$ c( u( ^# @
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 [5 x, n9 ]' |" u3 F
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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。 1 r! j* {/ S) x0 }: H0 ^# o5 Q0 F7 d7 B$ w! O% u, p9 w. m
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.+ e i6 c) \$ Z8 n
1 v" t' c' d+ O7 u9 |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。' @- F% i+ S, K: t3 f
% D5 @+ N: c) @1 G$ n% z# p- CThe 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.$ i3 S0 b' `9 a: P' h
; {6 K2 V1 v, B. x8 u. s8 ~5 u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。" D" g. o) v9 r. ]8 {
* ^3 O4 Q- p( KYou 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. ' v% ^6 i" e$ j3 q! Y/ c7 b
6 |1 l4 @- A+ \3 h8 a) h. fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. _ G/ M/ O- G5 u( n2 O. @& D/ h; `: h% ~$ J$ C- E
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% v W1 }! F2 J- Y4 \' j( h( B6 t
: X" W K3 y5 Q7 H! k; rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 q8 U& q0 a; G2 O
. B$ o. r( k9 I+ Z/ Q+ q& VFor 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. " / ^! Q9 f0 y+ @' x: a2 z! } 1 r$ f4 S5 u9 m z0 d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。 " D3 s* I; h5 S: S' w" D5 N- y 6 Z- s3 B! V7 W0 MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. G% ? N/ D' P. r0 W
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 } X" v, h0 a% L: K
9 a7 p1 [! L: N( r- d( V; Z- gLife. 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." + D, c# x4 c7 c4 q1 W2 ^3 ? 2 f: r/ o; V" k$ O* e1 p1 x9 P3 G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”。6 L2 g% ?. d; Q1 j3 n# b