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： - g) y3 [- h3 K4 I( w) h / b1 ^& V% l1 x( M: c# l1 T: G2 T生命就是小甜饼：' h4 q4 r# M& O5 S9 ]' w) |
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. 1 [8 @! Y1 o0 ? f & ~% t6 T8 U4 B2 I! f2 [% F/ N- 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”。4 X$ _/ y- [1 E2 v
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 J; @4 t$ m' `
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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。9 z1 J6 ]1 a& Q: s% {
( Q& ^3 E$ ]+ I: h; ]9 K; e2 tSome 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.: {6 I0 g' G9 Z5 |1 S8 ?
3 h- i1 k. u' @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。9 Q# O$ l) s5 |+ {7 f
, K5 T+ ]! b5 `$ bA 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. % H y# w- s' e. i# m+ @) j: B+ S# W- H9 h# y( S4 s
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。, x3 e7 H0 N5 {- @$ `" U
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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.( J$ c3 N3 @3 m0 D3 b0 a3 q
: Z, x! m$ r$ J# j& V+ g1 L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。 , _: z' ]7 D( R7 X+ Q 8 e; C! N3 M: c5 g3 l2 n/ Q* _7 [* JBut 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. 4 N$ n8 K, {2 f* ?5 D q) N: q6 N; {
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。 ; S2 ^8 m8 N: ~, H4 G9 i F; B& o, D8 f. A
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. 3 P' D! e( n' V, x1 y $ Y4 M2 x1 Y: X, R& o% P; k$ Q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。 b( P/ C) U* r# {. ~6 A0 o3 L. t- i B7 i$ t. y
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. " \$ Q5 B C1 c7 j% M: d0 g- ]) Y
' w/ S( W" r! z, H. P! t/ h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。$ G. F; N. Y5 N) Z% ~6 ?5 m
' p* C8 u1 h& v; |, SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , c7 L! m2 w1 M0 D! D- t/ m0 v3 S w
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 q5 T+ V/ C: }& T. ], y3 s
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 e5 X* {9 {0 w* A
, r% k# ~( H, @# L" a+ G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。! |0 l7 _/ t4 o
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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. "& J1 {, n9 Q5 B/ ~2 R
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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。& F* Y, r5 k- Y( G7 H3 @2 H( R
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 _* R1 W$ X4 u5 q m
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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。! D9 B) d9 i# }" T
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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." 8 Y* ?9 }& I% J( O; Z% p 7 N5 s4 ~4 R6 s% p4 G( a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" D3 m9 C. h$ I3 J" c% @( \6 n
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