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： : `5 z# C" T) ] p; Q+ P4 e$ ~0 w3 Z; T4 P
生命就是小甜饼：6 r" ^9 E+ H% s$ I2 [
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. 2 c6 a) ^$ k0 f# t2 i3 E) K% A! o9 a+ }
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”。 9 Y% B! ~2 z/ P& Y. J: N+ _1 D |4 t' s# F( _6 I% T/ Q
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 G) n, N- e: W
- B8 d3 R5 V* `1 ~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.. L% D" j% T# \0 h0 L4 G8 x2 T
" e( @* H* Z) f& ]( s5 F, M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。1 L( j8 t7 P8 I" m
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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. 6 Z$ b/ ? ~4 ]8 j$ } 0 v& Y. A/ \8 G4 g- c& Z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。7 p5 \! i$ R' V% G2 t+ n9 A4 l
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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.' Y% _$ X4 t9 e& y4 Y
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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。 E& ?6 C1 N4 I! D% F% E) E
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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. / B% C( L# c- @9 w+ f) t# k/ x, O n. o6 B w
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。 ; B$ l2 W# `5 H y. [ 7 d. J) }4 l3 f2 g7 O; P) pThe 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. 6 N( Y/ O+ U) W' ~. W7 R: ]( C/ s8 A8 m o- g* Z! q: A6 R
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。) g1 a9 `. P I9 ^ u$ ~ `8 Y
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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. 9 I+ _" a* M; d% @- V8 b+ ~
+ [% v6 W8 O5 K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。 o0 w5 ?6 E" C7 ~4 _) t p+ E0 W+ D5 V t7 B- n$ h
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! v7 [; e7 k' ?8 s ~) z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 p( _; d3 m5 x! c/ r% j/ F) @: p9 l1 H3 y; {3 ^- s
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + w6 B! F9 h3 C3 t( P$ f1 c2 J+ U3 T8 C- Q; I" g5 U
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。 $ b5 G4 k! U5 w# S, [ Q9 y3 N, B4 `6 U, h- x5 N
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. " * I s9 V3 _ }) i) @5 R- z: D, ~3 U! B+ K/ I' z g' p, `
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。! M4 [, Q8 ]/ @: i
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. / i& K" X# g7 x8 X ' x1 Q+ h) f% j- G2 M. O& w“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 k' S% }( k* H! K& y% u" Q, a: h' C, m
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." & A5 N; H" s1 e) A& z" M, ` " v4 D- B. V a% h I6 K; Q% V1 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”。9 K1 Z7 U% W* X3 Q" M: f2 X