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： / i5 D6 Q; b% a# _* _* n! z% c. r/ o' X
生命就是小甜饼：5 j! _. M) s' ]. `: R
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. $ A5 C+ ~ l: F4 Z" F: F. v u6 p% C6 ~: J( g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”。5 @" r& l$ r/ }3 R
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - Z3 w* G! J( L# J9 w8 B. p. l% u0 ]8 B, T2 V9 m3 o) z
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。 7 w7 U. Z; d t0 a1 y: y+ g; ^' i$ j
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. 7 q( e& H4 d6 v% _+ y) Q/ M+ C) P" N0 [- L
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。 ' V' ^2 r) i; Y ( u+ C# `* N6 T( L* \, X4 I. JA 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 M$ o/ A0 Z. d9 a7 \
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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。 . B4 k% {2 Y9 y$ [ & |7 o# l3 I- Z" N4 |; Z0 Z( m. mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ a6 J, i" G( ^- }
; C1 t; T( y8 ^5 F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。2 E. y+ |" O5 B5 i# ]3 y
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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. ( j1 E; j" \2 [5 K# M2 r/ O( B2 A' c* I' L$ J3 N
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。 3 i( D& J/ C' ~( N3 p 5 L/ D2 G3 X- a2 A* i. IThe 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. 1 Y+ p. u0 x i! K, b% } * @ z2 S2 I: |/ s/ f3 _4 z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。5 H8 i/ V4 }, U0 m: a/ Z* y* `
# O' L$ f4 o: O \" UYou 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. 8 x: w1 V% d7 ^8 P
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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。9 L( q5 P4 e! J' \0 }
" q& H. u$ H* v+ pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) d0 |2 l) O7 ^( D ]' I9 l & t$ z2 `6 J d1 g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 & a/ _ R# y; N 7 T& }3 g# R8 s5 ?: KHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 Y' R8 R9 i" X* A0 O" l) A0 N, u, n+ J! J, V7 I% N9 ~3 [
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! E& x1 u% F1 a
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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. "+ E1 N* d& d3 t2 c# x) e
f( Y- {8 `+ M7 D: w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。 + g8 a! i, @2 J7 ?! R) u1 \* J3 _/ ]$ Y. N1 V. A
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ! I; c8 K" D7 d6 ?8 N3 \! |; y# N* O2 d* h# 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。 $ t) |: E# k! Q; [ : t$ j$ V4 r8 ~$ P( l4 @: GLife. 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." 6 e' b9 y6 V0 ~! z , s K/ V. i% Q- W! u5 O2 x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”。 # E0 V4 d3 ^4 W, p4 q1 I& L5 r, S8 w
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