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：3 H( M' Z' o) k0 b
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生命就是小甜饼：2 H/ [. K, _8 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.2 S& T: r5 S# |2 R
& M; z9 r. i4 J4 {0 n0 `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 o' i/ E% Z- F+ f2 x/ z% q' G/ |/ T! K* P1 D$ S
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。 + e# p9 p) v% l. z+ v D* j1 j6 p: `# m( ^. \/ g6 s
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.2 x6 c; \! i; U: l D5 d, ~; m7 K
1 Z% g7 V. r4 J, I- U- F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。; l/ v! p8 n1 E( P# P: K" J
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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.5 a* N& O% m( y6 T% P& x
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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。 3 X# }/ A2 k' C$ n3 m3 G! x! K3 E. [- n# t
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # Y, v; c- D U$ p8 _1 h9 z. I9 e/ s6 f# {; n/ o ?
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。: I2 Q3 A$ R1 _4 ?4 j8 z, N/ y
: r* M5 P: g' NBut 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.6 y$ s' ]/ ], j1 `
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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。 2 H+ @# W n9 Y i6 V0 z2 D# { } ]9 X( q, z* s7 pThe 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. d' A8 m% U2 E, b- r+ p: e8 H! c! m4 ~' P- c2 U ~; M
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。9 t' h9 T! C" }+ G5 }( z
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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. # F3 e8 O+ u/ N. v& O6 V 3 X: v0 W9 U m" E: ]: T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 _- ?: f) D- ~" |5 _, _ - G1 w8 K8 K* M; cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 0 k) q0 u8 F$ F9 k4 y5 u3 T% ~ 6 E4 ^+ U" l9 f你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% [6 {" S; H( l3 H) l1 f* N
4 o2 @! b2 [7 l, A! ^. tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( D, Q7 V' o1 D6 d' j m0 D' k ; S; |' |: C/ C* [% U+ I% Q* n3 ]: u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。; d" B7 C# Y% B8 n6 h _5 l( _; V
) o3 D4 f% r+ \( v2 Q7 b+ K8 H; ~* N, rFor 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. "2 ?/ j' D" p; f" t1 u! |( ~3 M$ j
! ^5 U, Z% d7 h( s$ A8 y) ~" X5 J! d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。 3 ?3 @8 Y! [6 `, b/ p6 q2 O. k" q! A7 Z! a) i- g
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. * R) k/ }. d+ A4 ? 7 n1 e) _5 R: E: [' t“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。$ r. f! O- X) k6 \4 N2 S& Z& S
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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." + [) ]% P6 l) ^3 g/ u% y* ^ D- @ A : v' ~: J& l" o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”。, a$ W5 C0 ^* z: x