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： % s- |' q/ x# y [+ G, F8 l7 c! N. q5 a
生命就是小甜饼： 7 e& U; p* K# S5 P3 A* h2 B7 AOne 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. * }5 M9 d0 S: [6 A9 V S * I+ h' ^3 d7 r3 x# m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”。 / p$ ?1 I8 _" l+ d! x6 p0 x( {1 }6 V/ ?
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 K: v& W' x- Y! ?9 p o% e
$ `$ c5 q8 R% b! A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。! v0 n2 @5 z5 l# D6 N; [# N, D
! M8 i1 a8 j0 ?6 R8 ?9 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.% f1 W# N5 }* P4 R9 b6 j
7 d( Y% }5 j( Z/ S; [2 i4 c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。! ] k' E6 T- @- m4 g, J
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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. ; ^3 l# i; |% v G9 Z6 S6 D7 I8 q9 @7 E5 t, h8 A
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。 2 t$ f. F/ q$ P3 a) D* s) F; [+ V7 d, A0 @4 g
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 c( U5 v& I) k! z& G8 @* i
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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。 " t5 m' x, z+ n: Z8 q" @; `9 C9 r) u# A( Z
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 ?, H4 S& Y% z" ~3 T
* Z. t1 H8 ?: I) k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。' l: f# `2 I' J1 J R0 x2 U1 H6 V
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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.' u- L5 C0 u% A6 m: y
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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。 ) F* B7 G& u6 R0 |/ s* Y - H+ T8 i1 o& C. s, N& [9 TYou 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. / n+ W9 A) q9 ~$ [
& i* |8 w/ I$ O, B0 Q9 T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。 ' O& n* W% v( V ~, P; p% D" |- a" J- i: n! x- n, j
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. k) |5 w1 f" O9 Q% J I$ f. W1 v( z2 A2 p
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 @) ]- o2 s3 n( c+ b; I5 J( ` n( ^3 V4 w
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( E) h' Q4 J2 x0 q% U9 O) x1 @' o' f0 q" ?, }" _# ]
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。$ g$ @) T( `( r. Q, L: A
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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. " # x$ G2 h/ D) ?9 | # u$ }- p: w( s$ H2 m- V. w; _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。 + ~1 x1 O5 F' R% V: n+ ]) r9 B% ]
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* x9 q. {+ e* d5 S) E, p
1 t6 [ D( n* _1 M$ J. Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' Y% M8 }1 v) K* b5 [/ f8 ]9 B1 D' }6 p$ |& ^3 R; X6 n4 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.". r1 h: r% L+ ~4 n8 P7 M( V" h9 r
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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”。 * f* ` N% @: t3 r4 @6 f& n1 W; a/ K, ~- Z! A! k2 M
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