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： * Z8 z1 e! c7 F e+ C- b 2 z% u: h9 x" K/ N- T7 x生命就是小甜饼：9 Y- d! g6 l- h8 {
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. : V1 i/ G6 \ ?. f % t @$ t; |( a+ c3 {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”。 1 O( W8 `2 p# c. S2 X5 q- }% i: |( ^5 K9 U7 d( {, l
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 [. B- {: h8 h; P) Q0 T$ L( |* B! ~
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。 , ^( U8 ^, B" `2 s; ^, M' m7 D5 Y& ~. W* p6 K/ W0 t
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 z7 [# m7 g7 e; A
1 K! U3 f5 J j0 S7 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。 # z& n1 E, a$ @0 P2 e! t3 E$ W0 d3 X
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.* k7 B, c/ k) v( c# I
+ p6 b: l6 I. T0 m) \+ q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 i. ]0 d- L5 `+ Y9 V
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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. # @$ L. R5 U' e% i- }" P % F& [7 w% i0 p9 i& u. D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。 / B6 V; j$ |3 ^4 X. S3 P- Y2 T4 \' \7 U1 p5 G2 h& W) X
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.- k. w; d4 z l1 F1 u$ F; ^6 v
& @7 E+ R: S' S7 g/ J8 o4 R T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 G. {. t' i6 q5 M
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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./ l0 j" R C, M* y, k
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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。 * c. I$ F! c) s4 F( x 3 T* S& }( ?2 O; {- }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. ( p/ o2 [' i' w% p
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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。/ d: `) @* u" W6 O; O2 @
) H9 m0 E, z- HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( E0 G/ O8 H' n9 ~0 B4 p: s2 j) i, Z. O# Y. i; d$ Y. {
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 T! m2 T/ L1 t" n8 L
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 z+ E7 E$ b1 Q: \5 L' i ; A6 e1 R$ q. X& P: t# V S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。' V0 V' C$ e6 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. " " {. D) Y! g, c$ u& I2 e; { + u% G7 J( \, J, E5 X9 [- E, U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 h9 O t# Z! W( F6 M1 N3 O3 B ~, E: ]' k L
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 h/ `1 O Q$ x
: P' d& }& w% }9 L, c& w* l: z$ E; Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * I1 z; i0 P9 n2 b# |% N# Z1 l) T& B
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." . b+ F# z) {% |2 o : K' ]& ?" ^/ o" f% |! 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”。% K! l" c6 k" N. K d
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