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：) Z8 x9 |+ ^3 H9 E5 @( o; l! l
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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. " A# J* H1 s. y9 y5 g+ y/ p ( T4 p& R1 l8 g/ `" e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”。 % I; @0 `. b3 p5 `: a: A 5 Q& A& y0 N: J9 Y# I: S A6 SIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 1 o3 Z8 t* X8 K# z6 t* L: i) }$ { i w/ u& R& 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。: {; C I2 I: z! R
6 F' _# Q" O/ k- D3 j# 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. & B+ P* \) }/ @7 E# G- Q4 N" i0 R0 N' j: s- H' X
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。# [2 S: k0 v; B2 ~. H6 ~9 K
1 e6 f$ I( U, i) Q8 Q3 U8 nA 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; U! E, v% F% v. T3 ^ A8 Q" e8 s2 D. s. Q9 C, ?$ V# u$ N
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。4 Z" o0 |0 n" k, U: B
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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. F7 u0 ?0 P# n5 D( a/ l- J% J. V$ f) ]* J$ G
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。; W% _* y W* I' L6 w
& V, m5 z* t, V, ?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.- Y% M( e j- M4 k& h1 D& O8 {
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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。 7 d( ]4 T1 A0 G+ A 5 k- _5 F3 T6 @: @7 f7 ~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. ( t. ^" f+ i, f* J 4 x4 f1 [& e: }+ I- {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。 " n+ c% m$ S; X4 z2 Y) b- b) N% E, G! n' a4 Z6 X) \* _
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. 4 f/ A6 M3 T, Q4 X+ |, v9 U$ }* ~' Z4 p( l
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。 c# L( ]8 j0 T4 Q3 F9 I
- r1 c; v8 m/ E8 o4 m/ N* EYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* G; F8 ^" z1 d
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 p& t. T6 X# X; x+ p6 Q/ z2 E# V+ y8 m" B( E5 [+ b; \5 r
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 t& B; d" _ ?; h5 D% Z- B7 l & _6 W6 k. S- ^- U. M3 y) b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。5 v8 V4 I/ o1 q8 i; }
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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. " # Y9 j, J1 y% v8 ~' n( a/ J- K& J% Y3 z. Z
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。 : B# J6 O/ o( _3 ^) a/ h7 W v" `* {1 W. ]
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ; G0 `" e6 s$ {' x! ~0 |) \% l# K" W$ K
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! I8 B z+ A" p- v5 J0 [' |+ B
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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."/ s+ ?. ?4 o6 `! z8 p: J; w
) Y, Y) B# g$ J6 U# @6 y L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”。' Z' V2 Y! _& D% v; N# z: Y+ i8 g
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