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： " y! S2 n/ x. h7 O8 Y2 u 0 b$ B0 A& B$ K& O7 a生命就是小甜饼：4 `0 d. |" ]6 o7 _* r) Y
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. + ?% m* [, q7 Q, H2 e$ _ w9 z; n8 I3 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”。 + `- L0 p! m9 N' s! L4 r8 E7 L$ i$ n+ T) H0 [
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 c( P3 o* m9 H- |. f
! f3 d# }8 m: q0 W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。3 V! R5 p& u" J
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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./ E1 W, g3 ?# ~7 u; R
. d% ]& |8 g, r" _9 T% ]. h- T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。8 [/ c& l5 Z- _6 B) e7 Q; J0 {
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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. + w/ t/ K; h3 \ 6 w4 q) a8 V$ P7 b6 J3 u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。8 n$ [( n# r. z0 P/ |. m- [/ f
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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. : |8 X! @9 s3 b" i7 A' X- C5 J& \/ p8 J
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。 ( V% p" }" v! i & C% V: ]7 d; M0 U' `1 lBut 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. / |& t8 U. u2 |- Q/ H7 M+ B7 e2 V/ l5 M, D5 D! ~
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。 Q; w: {* `- R& v1 y% o8 T' U% Q |
0 J" n- a# H ~; dThe 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. + H) x" c" `9 O) U2 i# I3 ^, n( X s! T
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。3 j4 [2 G* X. Q* M) S7 |
% m- [4 H* Y. s& j/ m, k8 p* ^$ NYou 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* O' r* Y, P. U+ w+ L. f! \
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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。 2 ~8 {" q: x& F! D( b1 }: R# Q3 t/ ^6 X
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ V) C9 I7 J4 p) a7 s, m+ V
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " x) M' r, g2 V# T& K( n' H; @; [+ Z! A9 ]2 _. C4 A1 z5 ?
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % b. h- c# T% n# B5 R* C" F9 U9 U! `8 F5 C
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。 ; w- b0 C& S- u5 N2 u4 o1 }8 a" o& D3 u& N. m
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. "( N3 `9 ~# f; J% C/ T
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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。 5 u$ C1 [- X! S5 z g1 V9 r/ _! g# W$ R1 f& y" L$ d
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( y; o' U8 S; }' y
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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。( p2 G$ M4 R8 d2 n- u$ T
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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."- k! d$ h$ p+ C# e' R
0 r3 m r* C0 |( R4 f! k1 H4 x4 ~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”。) V$ n# T# U7 B4 |) \# H