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：% d ~+ C) J0 |2 k. n" w
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生命就是小甜饼： ) t; N; i [6 H/ b2 W* Z. ^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. 7 ?1 l1 u2 z# f2 h& X, {( H! b8 D/ {% \# U7 R
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”。 ! ]" w$ X# i1 d* U# v ' M. Z9 c2 `; HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& }) e% h& c1 `, q1 K( p
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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。 - I, W+ b" s7 i% X+ N4 x . n8 g( C9 X7 `% kSome 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. $ u& @( G' c* [5 @( C1 _" P [ 0 `9 ]/ n$ ]7 L* C( R% o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 m, {0 v1 ~" j * s( t/ |8 u4 x% ^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.- D9 ^; @& ^5 b1 C: r
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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 I5 c5 }0 y4 [) h" X# _% _0 I4 q4 J % I& b8 i7 s9 d5 _7 _$ g$ P* VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." Y4 [3 G! _6 D: C9 t2 Q
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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。2 f" p( V Q7 _6 S r; R: c9 W0 ]; x
. ?4 A4 x) [: H6 \' vBut 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. - v& H% V8 T% x: d- |! [ N9 j# T2 }6 h0 }
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。 ( k( b2 F1 F8 W ; w( L+ w# V/ b4 tThe 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. % V5 U$ |4 F) [4 a6 M# x' a; v; k5 ~; y- g
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。 1 a2 |* S# f4 j3 \5 l$ l# q% n3 l5 |
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. 3 a% m1 W2 x5 p- U 7 f! _9 J/ {. w( l3 n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。 , h7 s8 M# V6 W' }$ Z6 {' @6 a6 U5 H5 F+ d0 \$ p2 z- G
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 D2 m/ S5 ?% n0 k
$ [! H' ]- Q5 ?6 J8 A) j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * x, ]$ d$ R5 a' E6 K 0 U9 C6 f3 q9 @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# s# v! a7 e/ s P
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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。% o- c; |. S, |& ~' N; ?
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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. " " k: [. H$ U8 S8 B; x0 r. U% m3 l9 _" n; S% ]8 R N2 r" H! y6 z
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。- T5 `! ~0 d$ a0 @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ r+ W) s! k7 z$ i; b
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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。8 D' J# y, G% `4 B
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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."( R" M6 C1 q* |& O7 M$ m x
8 p+ d4 Q, {" E; j- V# `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”。4 c7 H: r) g6 v3 I2 p8 t/ M3 o