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： + t: B6 }8 O/ q* Y" t2 i! t, W1 e3 K
生命就是小甜饼： ) g0 S2 w9 l; b" ~8 S8 N1 \" ^4 rOne 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.( U; ~, r' c) Y4 G9 N- T' _' S! f
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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) T8 ^5 f0 a/ G( d 7 e# ^: ` [% }5 u4 u* H2 LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + j8 W9 U1 H% O, \( W ]; b1 S/ h& H# q* t+ \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。% Y* a. ^; K" t% A1 m8 C
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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. 2 P3 v- D8 S: q9 e6 r* E; R1 j# I$ b$ d1 T5 o0 K+ w- c6 p7 p
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。 ! j6 ~9 U2 g; n* @3 Q2 i6 ~1 n# M. o4 `1 ]4 A$ a! ?, e+ e
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.2 t: @: j' w! L; w- `$ h. \5 _
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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。 , Z% o6 S( P( t; O! s: i' F& W % j3 I6 N/ e: UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . x9 Y7 F, M; R1 M. W' a. y }: q3 I; G: U" Z0 t
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。- E6 E7 @( n: H: u# k, i
- T# c) ~7 M8 }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.0 s7 Y, t2 w# N* h; T/ D+ X
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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。 $ p& f( t; k4 Y8 g+ r# ~+ B; e- u0 f: _( y1 C+ l; v: |* O7 Y
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.- T( ]6 P: k. C9 Y) G3 |
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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。 * F7 n+ J ^! [7 a/ n7 p5 \' ?% K6 v r 0 T: Z: Q( H4 U" {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. ; e% [6 {# ^4 R X: r/ M0 S& C7 _, S B; S; ^
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。 6 v) X8 O/ i6 g+ ?: s0 t9 V { 2 p4 ?, m* F( Y+ c$ R/ C AYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ' T2 L% a! I8 z) s- S: I' ]* I5 ]- R6 L4 j) K& e& M! B/ b
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) c. \2 d1 r8 s# f/ V
+ `6 i* I2 r; f2 q' r- F J6 @7 n$ G( q6 U) kHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# o7 b) J6 \1 O4 A( P
- M" I. T5 k4 g+ U* U% Y6 ~% F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。 2 h! }2 R. v2 b2 L6 s5 Y1 h9 g" b. z; \. Q
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. " ) v! N& [2 A+ |( K ! M6 S6 h0 P; P) U8 D6 Y* o) 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。 ( S( L' ^+ m' j9 D, W / o, E( M$ v- o" o8 MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% Q: Q0 p1 B X4 n
$ u3 b4 }2 v8 h; T6 T$ K“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 M% s( R% m3 Z! N' o1 D/ Y6 v
, g2 v- D. p. e/ W: [6 i& O$ n) h$ SLife. 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."/ }# {) ^' ~6 ~ h1 t- E+ j' p x: j, y
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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”。 ; c+ R4 r. j& e5 b7 i8 L/ X, {, J) w+ z- \ I3 Z+ t
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