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： 2 H" l3 Z$ }2 o' W& {8 [' U* @ 1 D% `# c- Y6 N- T" w" O3 ^( i生命就是小甜饼：) p3 d ^8 ~+ i2 T
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./ t* m0 y& ^5 h, @0 n' U
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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”。0 {* j! |% P5 g; V8 Y i+ f
( D0 O6 ]" n( R4 s& o- _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # `& G- O) _, |0 o1 B " h% ?4 g* {0 H, [4 K) V# c9 s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。5 z: N* l- e) V! F1 L; }" u
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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./ j$ ?6 } X' I* ]: l3 M( H
- x/ g- p( ~3 LA 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. ( L$ d& W. L! M0 g% Z8 v: g' r / K/ R0 s, i% z1 U1 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。* u& p; _3 v# E% b- l( X
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# o4 f' T( }8 F; {+ @
1 C6 o/ \$ [. e2 U0 l7 F2 @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。 ) d% g* ~6 ` m6 T# [# V* t! S
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., V) y" i. m9 k8 @
0 J1 V* T* _. c: r! X2 f1 H( [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。; |7 W. n" V+ C @( y1 A- T
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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.5 m! t! x: K- r/ K. [. W+ t9 L
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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。 5 \7 w, Y% H1 @9 [! |# S) m0 w6 ]6 k4 s! V
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. - ~1 Y8 u- ~* n! Q6 x! ] # e. q6 Q' U- Q& 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。 & i0 `5 e+ l" X * Q* R# v0 U* @! s, WYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: I" N0 M3 |. g4 C
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ B4 Y: W" U1 K' }* a5 N9 s
. }+ ]4 n Y# ~9 |8 r/ FHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & E) |9 E/ I' Y! H" F h: C% Y( ~8 m+ W8 p' v Z, N
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。) M2 {, }) l* \! w- s
* i3 G1 k! \2 d0 e! E9 CFor 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. "! J9 S2 Z, w$ x1 r' p/ r+ Z
3 @* y: i& J- C. I/ U4 A9 ^3 }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。 ' g1 ^; g) w" j' L! q, e Y; P3 S1 y
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' K2 ~; T% T2 I3 q2 f3 W7 f; Y4 t) W) D. S5 |$ R1 j2 ~
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ I$ c9 H( s! L# P. C% r5 M
5 G! @; c5 l+ ~- _: zLife. 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." 8 I0 h: o C5 I6 `3 Y& x& R2 ~% s' R. e) L, K0 \( Q! |
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”。3 b. R1 G8 B* w- z- s& w U