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： - @8 v- a- q2 {% u( R, ?* }* Z0 e8 x9 V% |8 D: S6 b) D) i
生命就是小甜饼：2 w) r4 N- ?- v0 f- K
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. . u X3 B b/ @# z. q( a9 C s" r; M! I; a6 E* P
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”。 # |3 r( L8 X, ]. b ; [, E# ~4 ]+ J& Q, W& LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 R" l' h1 o' Q
+ b7 H$ m9 n; s8 Y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。 + y3 P& v+ `. E5 `# ` & I- P, m, F& L# _+ nSome 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. , }/ B6 N$ g r9 y6 c . H G# P* l# v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。 b9 {" N0 Q- W& j9 f0 j0 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.( I/ ?$ Y# G K* f
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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。+ }2 w+ c( W( l' c; F3 E
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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. ) G0 j- {# ]% C0 n6 I0 M8 V % d! H1 h- I" v# x( R/ b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。 3 c3 H1 R: `- s1 G$ n( i: o / x7 G* W' O8 d" K" g* p# O. Q; U% ^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.. ^3 `1 t; E3 x" ?5 O2 q, X1 p
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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。& b* t0 A( _& L2 X* H
* o8 V, C4 w: y+ G3 w; `9 nThe 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. % A8 V8 a$ H p) g" c( H# b6 i/ {) t9 s
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。! G- p1 G) ]4 a0 N, |1 D: p0 B
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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. 7 T( l, Y" a6 @2 j4 ]3 O3 l/ Q! w
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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。 * V6 K1 e7 V# l( F( E+ f! i4 _3 r( p, _$ U0 d- T" I
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 `0 }8 p: f' v" y6 y( T" O- B) {6 W1 r4 J& ?% Z q% Q, p& D
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 C! F2 R$ C. u
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! e/ J4 i$ J: E: J1 [, ^/ g6 v! K1 |; l
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。 / I& D5 D* z2 H1 h4 A* a, T9 J2 t! ~9 [0 \
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. "$ |2 W4 }5 F% i
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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。 ! ~' B1 t% R4 w& q7 W9 s, v6 u" A5 c3 f
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& n* B7 R( }0 ]; Q* o
v d% q7 U1 [* l+ E: W+ B“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ w7 |$ @- P0 W
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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."9 D& y4 F2 ]+ |& `5 [2 _- G
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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”。! ?5 y- e! u# L4 l; {