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： ; h' k l n y9 Y8 c# O" \+ X2 Y& u: q/ a+ g: I
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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. . x0 w9 x* s, _ ?1 @8 a/ `6 u3 ]6 U) k: B
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”。. k8 y! Y+ S! v% H
5 x# [9 s& C6 Y* U0 g2 U' C1 dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " r2 }3 X5 O% v) }6 y0 O $ b2 D) U4 \5 O+ n6 C) W) M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。 4 [3 m6 C- n+ H8 y 3 F* ^+ g% G" G: L# u, I4 @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.5 ]& F* M _4 J- D, d. R0 g h4 c
; l1 u# b/ r; {% B+ ?- J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。+ t8 ?% _3 A) o* |7 Y3 |+ f
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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.* g' H" o& M' G: w, o) [7 J3 C) L
+ k% `. o6 R! c7 N& S* F: ]' {" Y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。 3 ?! N) }1 {0 _1 j0 N# n# d: B, {& ~' O% a/ G% m- r
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: x* Q2 Q" i9 m/ B- N+ `
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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 w( w, q" |, ~# J& j2 P' v
6 j/ H4 _' d# N) G; D0 ^2 ?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. : r. |# U/ b8 j R# e6 K4 J7 p& [) L: l- _3 E0 P
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。 2 ?2 S" l7 s' U # M$ ~* \3 s- W# H; o& [) LThe 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.4 U- N/ L' y2 G
' g9 W# y9 Z2 Q$ i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。 , L* [" a" R6 `0 v8 q' s & y' S. C5 B8 |9 x- x; ?* r/ V( v4 JYou 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. ( o1 ~* A* w; Q" D# } " ^9 I0 o! _ b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。 $ x' ]$ ~, Y) y f6 t* \/ O7 o4 { x/ L1 _
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! n/ ~6 O% ~/ K' `% B' t4 [, o
. D. E( h) r6 e) k3 m# i你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 E# E/ a4 V5 z5 x9 V0 }: Z& N 8 t$ ?+ l# d0 a. n0 X% L4 J7 cHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( R9 ?) T/ z7 c" g/ O2 A4 S 1 ]# B3 C" s; U9 @' H+ ]- X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。: H4 r G1 |" J6 x' r- R
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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. "8 P4 A$ m2 o9 B6 R
1 S4 ~: L. `" u9 d5 C: a" m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 @7 G0 P- _( R8 t' D1 R( d. t
2 k+ G% f& C6 p1 m) F3 P4 FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* Y5 q3 o* M/ R
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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。 1 u$ e% i% n4 H, ~ ) U, N' n$ {/ Q9 G" n, oLife. 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." ! w8 j6 b. w- c9 m. ~ ( Y7 q# ?$ O" T7 c$ x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”。' A7 ^8 j. I) B