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： $ c! t( ]' e, [! L% ^ ; E. f& E: L8 T( }+ \生命就是小甜饼： ' [2 q0 t, l6 G9 ~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.7 U- r2 C7 {! d! ]% c& }, R' y! i
) V/ \% R, h6 D E- N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”。 & B, |/ s! G X( c$ H$ C$ `( u# Z# q/ E: L$ E5 C: w
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 S) k. G0 t3 t6 _* z S6 m6 { 8 U8 {- l- \" n: P# d 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。 # Z4 J4 g6 a& _5 L# `8 w" Z% p2 c+ c8 k; E; N
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. " U9 c6 K3 f5 {, Q4 ^, s" P6 Z( R 7 e6 ~" _- L2 e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。 3 {2 W# a: F9 m: g4 j/ o8 G5 `9 d4 b( r/ q- m# s6 N2 q$ n# Q8 C
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.; f$ ~9 {1 [( f8 W, J7 j8 r- y6 ?: T5 F
& ?, |. g0 n8 o) t3 \5 p; {" t. 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。 6 @4 [5 ?+ K7 V/ K8 d9 W* [ % q/ s, S# t) mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 5 x* q$ C2 h# E 7 P, }3 `$ W) y0 g1 p r4 K$ U" F; C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。( i& v6 t" J$ o& |2 ?; \
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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.& f) ~* b7 L- c) T6 E3 X; O
* G% k1 @8 I+ Y7 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。 - h$ W7 {/ p( d8 D) m7 q9 G 5 ^ c2 \1 V5 ]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.& y# H: J$ [& }+ k+ w# Z V
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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。 ( {1 X8 ^2 c: ~8 B3 X: ?% k% D w) E3 w * t1 C4 W: @3 j# s* a9 jYou 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 q8 a. Z. q, _. [' q
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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 n1 K* N) ]" E1 j1 Z. a7 [* s( @, _7 ~( q
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 {3 c& w( y6 z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 a' t" F! e8 g" |
0 `3 { r; U' O2 V0 D! C7 T' 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。, i- x% m1 w% `. G0 |
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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. "% k% R- p) W- S- {
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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。 1 t# p5 D1 h* X# A " I+ }( C' f1 K- |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ s y) J6 J9 ]5 e$ ^
$ E6 {" d+ n J/ D“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 a8 q7 i7 `2 ]2 j* T: ?" N7 `+ O/ M
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."1 H T8 K m* v7 {) S, K" n
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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”。+ C) T( \0 G% J4 v1 B+ l1 y