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： ' ]( n) @6 c$ `# ?/ I2 [ 8 m m3 K3 n7 R, V4 z生命就是小甜饼：/ c, a/ R0 h$ Y9 A% W7 `
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 b/ U. ]* o0 D6 J& ?( ] o! c2 l5 {+ }" _3 t* h. f- R& k
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”。 7 _* y2 `* T( T I2 J, G$ J8 R* [% D+ y% m/ f
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ) T7 _) r$ b U1 p* T& W+ x% P+ p# e; m
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。9 i R% t" s' U
/ n3 k2 V, ~% k; u2 A1 DSome 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. 6 f* U: U5 S) n& d1 @* _; h; |. Q e" \" n1 o; p' i1 o
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。 ' F/ T, ]" O/ S8 I+ W5 x/ J1 K! ]$ _7 j
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.8 Y4 a# a1 m! w2 ~' R8 @
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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。 9 d$ _+ h8 N; x% O) B5 @: C! \1 y2 G% |8 I
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # w; O* j, N: b, B 0 q$ e5 ^$ g8 R! [8 p" m1 c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 S6 G( f% `" g- w" F4 ?2 G5 U2 ?' U$ N; t
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.1 R/ O/ r5 r5 `3 Y7 |
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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。 % m2 D; B8 {. y+ h5 P+ t1 R# u9 M O3 J$ {& ]9 I0 l
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. K( ^7 Q% ?) U9 T! H! F: w/ Y% W3 {! ~2 C
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。4 _1 c9 z, x; e0 q
2 ?5 Q" a- [1 b4 b7 iYou 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. 3 j) ^, v) \6 A, o7 M; M! _) z |$ n4 _
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。 # p. p* V/ x# N/ r0 T( m8 \ j2 p
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. [. N0 d" [) D% q) k" N1 R+ h3 E; B, ^8 f% h' S# }8 ]( H
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 g5 Z0 ^* h) |/ i2 s6 P% ~3 u0 w' f" q$ X- O
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 i5 l# _; e( Y* I( G+ U8 p3 E" B$ \
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。. N! a, ?7 ?) m' x: _/ V
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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. ", t5 \) @4 W2 a) Q% ]4 n f# |5 q
; w7 g" w- a2 @7 _7 S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。1 }8 ?. B( M1 K' b$ @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # V. l: b& S& e7 |' Y 3 h8 Y1 O: P3 Q6 H! l6 h3 R1 N“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' @! L% C3 W7 e" J. r9 `( T* q# L4 ?( s! l+ P7 N+ @7 e x* p
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." 7 m% f. Y, W# ~- s' ?1 n+ n! p0 [8 K5 E* q
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”。 ! b6 r! b0 Q* B: L+ i' x' W* t; ^- k1 z4 ?! d& o! J0 X" M
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