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： 9 I. o% e0 D4 U: O C" Y- O k# b- g7 f" c- c( e' y4 i: a
生命就是小甜饼：4 [/ I C4 K5 P' X# \
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# ~: q: \ : `# j; h2 m! t1 a e8 h" l' Z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 t3 d& k( e( X5 E# `3 \) ^0 k5 E
" v B/ W3 s! W0 y9 U1 FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + a4 k" c2 a8 N/ ?: b 5 T/ v' z G0 q2 L3 [2 m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。% |! n6 z- [) g# N6 f: P/ y) y( I
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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.% r' Q9 A/ d* \8 d( Q# p
$ ]4 C1 w1 H( L' d* P2 a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。$ f9 m& q- U$ r2 a
b# M0 }& _& X5 }& e) i5 m2 P* o$ Q. h, xA 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. 4 D1 ]( _5 a7 J* v# F. O2 \4 s# b d7 N( 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。 ( m& C2 }8 u4 ^4 Z9 L " F6 n# ?5 Y1 {( C( |When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) p) C* B$ x o: B4 W. @
- X9 m- t9 Q% @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' ^9 D1 U0 @: Q* L; E2 E* E ; a* e/ n. I3 |/ t# u8 D( sBut 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.5 v% Q$ n% b- [0 p8 B$ I
4 I% ~ R' b; F) a6 M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。 ; Z" O' B: c) A' W, S# }0 M& \/ j: _0 B, X! `% p2 g
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.( m [) J k1 m9 }
7 |) w+ T! |; i% j7 a7 M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。 ' Y: q" t4 H# M! _5 A% L" s$ t. {/ L" k2 ?% ]9 J$ ]% R6 E
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. 3 o8 i' b+ J# K# a
- B; j, M8 x; Q% A. @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。: a2 ?* W# ^' f- D$ y* V1 E0 ^/ j5 ^
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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. 4 Q: C. L- V4 T& M( @) H8 n: I& C' X, O
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 d1 i! F( L; { / o+ V; v8 m+ Q' a8 g. ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- V" @: M, v! E
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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。 * b g# q, S5 e# _8 @ O7 }8 `: a 4 E; {4 H S. a* v. UFor 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. "; U" R8 W8 {) ]9 t
% h' y6 {. e6 J2 N- [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。2 J* @5 c$ `' k
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 U% C" `) u1 l: I- e% R
& y) G* w- s1 j8 W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- H# f4 ]" K q5 r" @) E3 Z" g2 w
( X0 m! V s% U/ J8 B/ {/ hLife. 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 c! W; ]! E! Q! y; F 9 ^1 @1 z& M& Q9 s4 m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”。2 F& d8 R1 p+ U& I% f7 ^1 z# n
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