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： ! A; b: [$ J1 k P ~, ^1 v, t, A' ^- ~: L" m1 r
生命就是小甜饼：6 o! i% Z+ ~1 p
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.8 P, R8 C ]4 W' G4 h
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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”。 & ~# I% A/ a* h* a( ]9 U- f, J4 K2 n& W/ f3 a8 v$ e
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / e8 [1 ?4 N' A' q7 z 4 f' B' G* [0 u0 b! q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。 / O' k9 }, [2 _9 p: `3 E4 X* `- Y8 O* @& P
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.) n% S3 Q; \& E: g9 L
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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。+ A1 K% P. d% h, H( ^
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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.- }0 s; Q' t/ | r; N) E
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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。 5 P9 W1 ], [) S" M7 H0 w9 b* r: a
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ; J R4 ?# v+ X0 g6 h- b& s! v2 ], C2 `* c: g
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。$ H p5 G5 k. ]1 H/ h
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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. 5 {* Y% a O- v7 |+ b& y/ R% I# n% ^" \; r6 S) ~
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。9 f2 Z& W" Q! U3 ?; e. V
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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.2 e0 y1 U; n0 h/ k; l# 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。. M" ~' O7 t) }: f; Q
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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. ; h0 Q/ {4 i" J* ^8 K
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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。 $ V$ g: D# [# i1 ~" U8 e% |. | - l2 Z* K+ H! F8 t9 tYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : }) }+ m- s3 n9 T( _+ h! X3 n2 z! p5 l0 V j8 Z
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& x1 w; N- ~3 K& `) Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) D' S# }% V( o: j F9 c2 `6 ?
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$ |2 P1 k" w5 YFor 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. "- Z p, w( M5 F8 \5 ^1 N
% g9 w4 u: ]5 r/ P5 z% h; i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。6 r9 @. [% B( W% e3 @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- w2 f; O/ P' d$ N+ N) o
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 f: ?2 [) ?3 H9 n4 j g
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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." ! x5 n+ P* j# ?3 a( T " X/ o& n; d/ u; @: [3 a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 w& {9 f \$ w: H7 f4 C