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： & b7 l1 I( D" w/ | ; }1 H. I% R8 _- f6 o& c生命就是小甜饼： 4 M' {: I/ D$ J' ?8 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.- ~4 G. ?3 X% q. n
2 e3 e: u9 F1 L" k7 J F) Q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”。/ D( y* |$ r- ?- f2 V5 |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 h8 p* V6 U3 T4 D7 i& r( k' p. H u4 O- g) k
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。3 e _' H( }3 D" Y$ d
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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. # d' A ], M9 j9 G; @; m) P * n7 e. p: H; |" p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。# k* f. a. U- D7 P: V: V
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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. ) E5 B7 o3 [) b% S8 K; w8 s4 d
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。" C( v- ]& d4 g ]# Y H7 ]
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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.+ G0 Z# W3 z+ J; n8 D* {
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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。- b: }; R. `, g
0 `9 [- l! H& D: ]9 {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. ! S6 _+ e1 ]5 { | - E. z6 _* k& a* f% ~1 X4 b1 L, S( |8 q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。 * s$ ?' v! `0 K" m3 } 4 N; S6 h" W$ `9 e# v1 c1 KThe 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; I* S3 F$ U0 y% J2 J : n% o+ Y& v( s# _3 ^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。! C; {+ O( Y1 l0 k3 q; A; l7 K; f
9 v3 m6 {. }8 e0 B& ^( }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. * `1 w+ C* p2 ~# e/ \) r- {" Y7 y% i- |9 j
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。 ; t6 q5 S- ^, K% h6 X. l' P0 |% X n- X
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : ^ y0 |8 q$ @1 \/ R! b 0 i8 u! `- i- {你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- t* \: |8 }. ]' M" j+ i
4 a* h" Y+ O! e2 Q* o& LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 0 N+ C2 V2 X. @1 S: r $ s+ X8 Z$ O, m- }' ^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。 6 W4 b) Y/ U" V# n( ?9 ?$ ]. v( {* T7 K; _# \0 q
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. "* c# J. ~/ I4 b( c! f; E4 N$ I }
" o1 m9 t9 @, }( f; @: c7 X! j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。 % Z; ~- S9 a" l* C0 v 3 O: u( |3 D: k7 L* P* O9 ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 0 r! G# h* ]; ? B( K4 a. a/ D( o& N+ ~" ]7 S. S) o
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 x' Z. L: }6 ]% x1 `5 f" h- N+ q' W9 o7 @ D+ H
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."$ U* O4 \! F& v! Q0 u4 B9 K( F2 t C
/ B; b3 B9 K) g2 r" ]" y" K: N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”。 ' X1 F1 q3 Q, h$ ]# l4 Z9 {' D7 d* j" I7 c0 N5 f; F p
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