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： ' K1 v" |: g8 k" }3 U8 [( q X' X. V3 ]1 d
生命就是小甜饼：5 T- T, v- j: p4 u7 B
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.3 t. k% k4 P7 i N5 z
. [5 J. `$ k# p9 Y* T; ^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”。' U! m1 q% t7 s; p# H1 i
! X+ i! g( x7 @3 g7 B4 SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 S! z$ Z$ Q2 r/ u9 W: c3 f 3 K5 U3 k8 F; E& 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。 & p8 `, v# H( g1 q X9 ], `6 g5 p# ] 3 n" O1 d/ B0 _" XSome 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. i6 s& |4 D. N+ U! N 7 x7 V8 w" Q3 k/ n5 `; w @/ H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。/ |5 u4 d7 j1 H" F4 K% T
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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. : Z) U8 d, Q f1 Z( u* }1 z 1 {* g( Z' \) k' A& d$ E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。+ j8 [$ @0 H3 }+ [ r, q- d/ {/ x, I
# W+ U5 B9 _0 i5 l8 yWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! e/ H3 r8 `$ v7 t' t% [0 G G+ p' X8 ?- @: B; ?
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。 , S# j6 Z9 J+ h3 ?1 B) p 2 l( Y! R' M# i$ @; C; @ u3 @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. % A+ v4 O9 m0 D% W6 j! |7 O" h1 L) r- {6 \; B8 @
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 h" f& A; v6 b6 V
- m! S: F$ {/ |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. ; L! X. q: `, y6 g8 O8 b. k1 k3 o2 D8 U' D3 o
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。, R) X, N o2 C8 l1 v+ w
: x& k8 @0 f+ j! T7 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. ( j! Y) [; X5 `; n+ Q- u m " p8 d1 }- R+ ?( Y% j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。; q+ V5 U* ^2 T
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; G! C* b& j- O3 f
3 ^) }/ j. I% q; ], d" m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 ]9 w5 @- |+ D5 d % Y! F/ @ d9 b8 J+ n) Z- eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- M; {7 x& [7 z
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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。 , m. Z1 c6 B# `3 b$ N , u; w3 z* i, O/ u' o" P7 RFor 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. "# w+ a* b* S: S- `! L, G
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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。0 Z- V u4 o% l3 O4 I
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) p; p& V0 M8 A& a' ^
4 [7 ?2 D: f- ?2 B ?- 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。 : V, k6 W& u- u2 V7 L6 A. m$ s/ _+ ^8 F0 n6 H4 Y
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."( U, N2 x/ o' k% [8 f" ]
F- b8 U$ g/ x' C7 y1 A Q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”。, i4 C* E' U& R( c' y4 f; I" P