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 p2 Y7 ~* a! L2 S: ~6 w# t B1 I8 ^. t4 @1 Q- v
生命就是小甜饼： S1 p' `/ u- POne 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.& o" d: ^9 w" K' t: j* l' a- J
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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”。 5 L; X8 Q- i. u$ Y' x % @* A3 s) v: z% iIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. & t3 m* ^( l/ i& Z* e4 Q" ?7 L7 o / V1 W7 J4 @2 g' g1 C: Z* X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。. n# y- f5 p" E' n# l" i
; q& s/ M) J4 E; F9 S- i, W/ HSome 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. 9 ^) p8 M' M! T2 t, n; s$ W% e+ w8 O" I h5 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。5 _# H* x. r* X: f9 [3 z
: x+ F* Z/ n/ {3 P( p& EA 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. . c: h0 u% s6 D+ L ?1 Q - C U& U) L, P! 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。 8 P- X* F5 G. f8 F" j, y% D) b0 f8 S D9 | m' D
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 ]8 d2 W7 u: L2 G$ b2 R3 h- [3 a% B2 A' f& M7 Y ~, O5 a3 F% H( \
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。8 K& `7 f& z: h& _
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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. k4 k7 G- w% u8 w
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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。 0 ?( E" U9 m1 N3 S; z! i% v$ Y2 Y ; H8 ?# p. r4 R3 k$ m2 _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 N8 [( S, Y1 |0 @8 J4 d$ E$ @- M; I8 ]: g4 a
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。 ; T6 [& ]" O6 Q% t/ r: l$ ~/ M& a
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. 8 c5 n& r6 P1 P) h' i! C( p/ U o& U% `5 S+ u
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。4 u/ ?2 W& u0 ^* Q
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. * G/ z3 ?% Z- C9 L" R7 z5 ~1 x : k6 m/ J9 D/ [$ f4 {) Y3 C5 j) B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 g3 }/ F/ p1 f $ R. h8 q: N. d, U P1 DHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % g& V1 G, b. L% z6 [ , o" G& W; F- 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。 z+ q% m; ~/ ?# M- k( L% B 7 m9 t; I( g# @9 RFor 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. " " _) E! s# S9 h5 `, H1 D$ T6 ?$ u0 j7 P' P: u/ e% H+ n5 M
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。 ) n, l$ d1 `: w% c% W' n * [4 I6 h) q% e( ~% ]Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ M7 m& [! p3 V' ^& l2 {
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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。 s$ B& q D; b1 g2 ^9 @9 m
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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." 4 a6 j) V2 x$ X+ R- b- o0 e5 `+ q$ ^' Y* Q % e9 L, j) z; b$ }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”。. ]- M" H6 Y* l+ E