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： ' Q2 x3 B$ `# |- I0 e% p6 V+ O y, @$ C& @. j
生命就是小甜饼：4 z* Z8 i5 r6 D5 ]
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.9 O$ I& M: M: K7 k+ S) |# s$ S: t, f. D
6 Z+ a1 K6 p( R% Z9 c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”。' K V8 ~: |8 ~7 I m( s
& F9 o0 \4 `/ H2 G2 ?" |7 `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " {7 t7 I% c' k# k4 E. f) j) P: d3 Y. e* J( \
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。1 C3 \( a$ z+ n9 Q& E; Y/ e
P5 b" a( o4 e2 T% |- oSome 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.8 `( ~/ X& S. _( k- ~" p
8 v8 k9 e, \; A. ~: n" M& p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。 . t& g$ c6 o- [: d+ O8 i0 R/ A9 j: W1 a/ E9 [
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.9 U/ n( N1 `+ I3 k) ?* T
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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。) F$ {4 i# r [, a! Y& R
" v$ p3 L! N% P& Q: mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ( `/ p# b$ ~" c9 r v! b5 A* l# i+ W+ }" y
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 g7 F* M, s2 n
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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.7 i( p8 c: D; E+ ?
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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。& z5 q6 S# C J
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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. 9 M/ u# B7 J+ J% E7 b, v/ O- K1 x; _8 }' 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。% H' R: _# S* P- c0 F3 m5 ]
9 b& B! e, D4 [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. ' {2 `2 \: D) j6 H 3 s9 `" @6 O' [* n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。: ^, W5 {7 F \: p h) Y
, B0 @6 N) O0 y5 r O( YYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 O7 Y8 A) R5 G
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" @' Q, l* }. ^, p' x; J: ^ D
# V6 `1 {- u! j9 V8 ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - k. z$ S' q% o# I4 ?9 W1 r: Q6 f5 l3 w* _- H7 |" r
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。. \3 h7 Q5 k% {% P. n, g: t- W
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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. "3 B! A# j6 D4 K1 Q
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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。* u1 y1 M. w% W3 X# _
7 T6 m* B1 N6 X6 y7 X9 QTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 0 z- k6 K# m4 L9 e' M2 |9 j: B0 T6 ^
“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' D8 o; u" K+ i 8 a, S" Q5 S- `* j, e" bLife. 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."$ j4 k/ E% x0 X0 F
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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”。 * [1 M# I* s4 |4 q2 z( `6 E0 j) J; G6 w( u
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