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： & K( ^) a4 N5 h6 J6 U: w* M) M2 M, h
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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. , N) s' v1 Z7 S - `6 z7 i! [& m2 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”。 * Z6 F! ?+ x! K2 r9 B% Z ; \. Z# }/ V0 b) }9 l rIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 b3 y5 f( }. Y: s - ~. z. ?% R: C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。 " m; u. x& u, C( R * c9 v- l) F! l) N; P4 y# R$ y* GSome 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. " ^* B* _0 p, J# x0 I- ^; P( y7 ^8 o4 X7 D- ?" L- k3 z
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。 5 c! ^, j9 O7 Z' O4 J7 G ^2 K) G% @0 W$ `
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." C: c# I+ }; I. V8 |
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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。8 k: b6 x, ?9 R' G# }9 ]
( B, ?* _- T/ a; TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # `7 ^: f1 d7 @7 O. q3 b. X: h ' n) h4 k% O4 E3 W( q. i+ [( }8 i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。 0 d) u7 e3 O4 b ' z7 L& Y. i& J5 K6 u* BBut 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. # y/ Z1 G/ W" k* r! Y# P, N6 Q/ r, @. x* A, w2 e
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。 , o5 f0 h, _1 L5 t% H. e( z. ], t/ Z0 k2 [7 s* |
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.- ]8 T! k, a) p: u
6 m; m0 D6 r: 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。 8 T$ O0 l, X2 T- T' I& B# q2 g0 n : k4 X6 w- g- E' u# D" I- BYou 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. # P% P, P. E. x7 L W$ ` - S; {" y% j7 `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。 $ C1 b) W2 m& {1 x+ h- ~ n6 `; r- B2 W' p% aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 V! T: g1 ?: y5 \8 k n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 K/ L% }& F0 f9 V, b2 i! J
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 a" S4 o& M% I" w+ r. A% b' w! J
- m1 ^1 M- `2 M( C% Q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。% H- y+ q$ W/ t2 r$ x# @
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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. "" \( a: v' d& W# P! r7 ^
, q" B, I/ Y1 z0 a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。 5 C# ]. t4 x( i) ]6 ~3 x 3 A! \8 z8 m! t- a& F, }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) C* p+ M' V4 Z& a3 r% u; D1 W) ~ ' p& D% E/ l6 u/ _5 N7 ~“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 G+ e8 f* X* b6 N) g0 ]: }5 ^% e w' P3 c9 a8 }
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." , m3 r# \; n: g% O" c6 |) `4 Z 1 P- z. W3 B% M( L2 L0 ?3 G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”。 * \# i2 b/ c* w$ Z- S& T N I3 b: U# G3 I2 X0 H1 C
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