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 f' X/ X, }* T" a; o3 C$ \- c0 f4 K
生命就是小甜饼： : I$ i; E; m0 s' [5 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. ' ~7 D A8 Y0 j3 f7 c# f& q* a/ ?; X( 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”。 5 U- @1 ]6 _! L, Y( B7 `; j ; _% U8 P% N! MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., _2 G/ w3 y6 Y3 e- p2 }# ?- }
: [: n. p2 l5 T2 _& l5 V/ g) _) H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。 t7 Y- B, _. f' o" F; o* v& ~4 L+ L; r9 D5 B1 f' E( E
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.* u4 P8 J/ b2 A# i: q3 }
7 h4 v# M* A9 a# N# y$ t5 _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。 $ r; R" M& ?+ q / G; a5 G. {& Q5 }3 z* |' s9 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. * z1 G' v8 G& e: M5 w- e; r" I0 L' x* m1 Y
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。/ y- j1 k* ~2 q' U/ O- j
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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. 5 ]1 o+ t$ h+ l2 d' Y2 C* D2 {& L6 F% d3 l& o( z1 \
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。( ]/ O8 h$ b: x, d! T
: _3 O; e# \4 V4 s y& uBut 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. . `) x$ I5 S. `+ Z% x9 U' y- W* C' ^( v0 j' 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。- @' I: m. E) z& g n# T
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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. 0 p5 O G, r) e( b , n9 v, I$ F7 V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。 % w1 l S& P- ^/ @ 3 ]" t( b6 h& p# XYou 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. 2 W8 ~, Q* [1 a2 B& ~
) R; k- V9 h1 R% 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。1 K2 @# s, }8 i5 ^7 a
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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. - K. w; H3 C; C: x7 B7 h! O- S . |" I# w6 E8 K0 G, R你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 L( b0 g1 v- U) { - |% h# \# g6 \! j; |$ E5 j3 a+ `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ H, q. F7 D' n C' D" k/ t- M
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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。! n$ @. O1 A0 J' h
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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. " ) o; ` b! D; V# I. F& Y( M ' l5 U1 Z/ S" ]# H8 t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。$ S$ o! q$ K _' g/ `/ o# J; L
) s) ], Q* f6 C7 P$ X! ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- {- s& ]& Y) ~% p9 l$ w' ^
/ D$ l) l% y1 g“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 s2 |$ x3 z& ~# t
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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." ) m" V2 F, {- a. S. E + `4 G3 _ R; Z: H) P0 }: t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”。/ a8 f% ~1 B$ W5 k' @' [