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： ' h- ~9 T) c1 }( u+ |. s. p; P) ]2 B
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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. ) E! n3 S+ b+ L/ G# B+ E- c " e* o+ b; g; k- C9 h' f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”。- e6 U$ i7 A& |7 u$ F1 a8 s
# `. ]/ ~* T9 EIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." Y3 A% A: U6 M5 ?, c" _
- ~" e3 U/ w" @1 E. B$ `3 p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。* \- B; U. A/ z+ l, o( K z
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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., A4 O& f4 q5 F, h5 g6 D
8 @$ ^9 K, `: Q# x. W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。' Y/ X- X+ A. y* J5 b9 V9 Z
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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. + ~: l( y, R: A5 {8 ? ! p& `% ~, ~7 F9 e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。0 v# A' Q7 f% `, F
, s# \( S& t1 ]; ~9 NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; T6 R/ b6 w' ^! q# q7 G V
$ T% t) O. w' y1 V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。! u5 p1 u) q# N3 N
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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. ^! o: S P7 a6 D8 H2 k7 a
& e; h9 S: T5 j% F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。 & b4 w" K, \ i0 T3 |8 M" N# R ! P# `7 c! i. T7 j- RThe 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. $ j' h3 {7 ~# k5 Q; f8 [' O: p+ |8 V, s7 S
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。6 s8 |6 D& H4 q# \( e% g0 D9 S
* O* y. A2 [" L. X$ F: e9 F3 \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. * G' X9 B J; `( c5 P: [, X5 G
: \ f7 C p& s% O7 t! n. w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。 . ^8 y, ~0 v9 a5 @ ; c A) {% V4 H7 }; s3 yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ h1 P- a% K+ v V1 f: h3 P
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 # Z' K1 e) l. Y+ W1 n/ ^2 B2 b& d8 O& t: }4 m
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 C1 n/ U l1 g: Z N; G
& w, c& W0 b7 O N& v( f/ A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。 t2 I1 w- D, D
# f& l9 Q8 U+ {( 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. " & F% S/ Y8 z. k5 Y! Z0 O2 E' u/ B( y
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。/ l' K1 }6 B9 `2 `, q: _
( |6 }. d+ |* r- M: n# i" aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 U+ |. `3 ]* {$ c# _2 {, @' Y P8 L" ?( E' E
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; n/ Y s4 o/ Y: B6 M 7 e4 P- x# s5 P. F6 OLife. 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."0 w% a. ^( K2 }1 |
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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”。# _3 T6 \' d; _' U& Q
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