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, ^+ M) o/ N" q( ?2 M+ b3 E5 b
生命就是小甜饼：1 Z* Q% x: E3 S2 u$ P7 n" A" G0 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. ; @9 W5 s" g% p0 H3 Y: ]2 p- H$ w, t6 `; Q0 K! 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”。1 O8 c) p; Q4 M0 K# u7 _5 {# E2 d3 x% R
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 G- P; e) X6 @
8 g4 b9 S8 ?( R- 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。 . w& ~, Q7 Y( f7 I* X+ w- e! U- A4 [% S. k' {" b j
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.! f4 y) A! a% t/ o0 H. a
8 A2 f2 A( Q8 y6 Q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。6 H' a% n) ^, A: R6 e* N; |1 I
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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. 5 F. Y, d$ r2 O* P# c M) S4 q 6 y1 K* O& k* [8 z# { r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。 + O: e+ c- Z/ f! i . W" v1 X7 Z( iWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / C9 p S% m8 L$ h) V2 C* B7 }5 D - E0 U3 F1 h1 x- S: ^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。 0 G: U* u( s: K# K4 G3 Z( Q/ S6 h
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. # y$ C) O3 x* Q* A5 S 0 C$ a6 x. |& E/ K2 e: v) V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" R! L6 K, C3 O0 V7 G9 h. W K
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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.# s0 a' O3 W9 [1 Z
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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。: m& D$ l2 c4 ?. t/ P
& x4 u" w" H' P3 B( S+ R' pYou 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. + A j, ~: m& P4 X' d4 e
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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。" v @7 i6 |, \- H+ Q* k& c
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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.8 x0 x |+ ?3 g7 c2 C
& H! s4 N7 r- s6 h. c) c0 U/ W你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 # Z8 [" f I' ` 9 v# c7 D: H0 PHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( I5 C& M8 F' b! g: y( P" a7 e x( r
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。 - h9 ]6 Y. ]5 t. U" ? 2 |- f- ^4 x# h1 w9 ?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. "( Q0 i+ k5 m) C' h; c3 q
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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 M5 Z/ A+ [9 S+ ]+ V; X4 ?$ }- G5 {- D& i1 a1 Y
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 5 z, k& l6 L0 g9 q% o9 j/ i: J1 X
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。' H, m5 A6 k& R/ E" A0 g: R
) L1 h0 x; w2 {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.", T+ y& e1 U& T" t x5 s3 ~
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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”。7 l- ~1 q9 T4 o0 @: _& c