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： : V9 {+ \8 M2 \# c D( ]1 B) f6 @, k1 D0 X0 r# N$ k
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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. 6 ? x/ E7 T6 Z8 s _ ( Y) w8 p/ i# c8 j3 B3 A3 \* g J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 r$ C& m+ y8 A3 ~; Q/ G* Y
* l- z2 z) v3 ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , u/ x. w- P4 K0 s% N 2 X6 e& h* I4 _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。% S0 p. I/ M; A% ]! H @3 J7 N
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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.$ ^8 g: |% x- I2 @
: u+ L5 c$ |* n2 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。 6 y+ m1 N E+ K5 h 6 Y! x; S4 W. u6 f2 W9 ^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.& T1 R8 C# X8 A, X( T+ w# _3 b8 I
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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。 ) Y+ d3 F; O8 F! f) z; C# V% k , ^+ s( K' V+ \5 T7 HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % B, J' u5 K7 g4 e2 v) [+ M) [% W4 A& k
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。+ [) `6 \4 Q' M8 `
1 n) b6 C1 T# }+ @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.' |9 S& o. S, g; J& t
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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。 $ r6 P0 q2 H, Q# j9 M, B& H9 T6 d: u( l( ] X
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.9 W( O+ T5 c1 f
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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。# O0 w, }. @9 `1 q o
" w0 s0 c! W6 \5 v% LYou 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. ^' f7 ]# u5 _$ I
; }6 s+ e, [5 W8 E. | O+ K+ M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 N8 Q& X5 Q s
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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.1 f7 N1 l" `4 I/ d+ N1 F2 i
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 D$ {1 C( G& R9 i! P+ P. @) [
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : [; u9 X0 E/ p 1 F3 @. w- z1 D7 c& P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。 8 o" _6 I: q7 z; w ' I5 z% R7 Q- N/ 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. "3 r; B# Z6 [# A5 W/ d9 z% E
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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。5 f( e- U6 r7 O, z2 Q
$ \( z9 }8 F, F' @/ a6 PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 f* F D/ C* X. e B6 i
9 U( j; t5 [4 `# ^# J“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 : u. k" C1 ]7 M- L( v5 C$ d0 i% b/ @ D3 g B7 {
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 R; \: z3 d' a! H5 ]2 h0 {
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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”。 6 `0 F8 ~, t5 E# |* U" A! a: f+ y: O, K' i9 `4 Y; A
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