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： 9 Z9 g9 l z7 ]6 [$ C. q# |, y+ m/ ?3 o r" r0 G0 u
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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. 6 \/ d: j2 }. h" a% F: G+ l8 B; J1 ^# ]: T% t% U8 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”。 ( F& K; G% T/ G4 l- ?. t1 M6 _3 Z, X$ F7 ~
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 x4 D3 e# G6 l / S, M1 U8 t7 B' H7 i9 \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。 ! X" Y S% D. g" b * j9 M J5 {: @& c5 X- 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. 4 d( J' H5 Z% ?/ s, G8 J4 C3 ?$ L. T 6 n. z8 k6 i }3 J. D+ C) N5 M, Y& x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。 ( u7 s! l4 N' x& {( b$ C, i F; |3 m/ D$ |$ t
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. & ` I8 w( \3 |( J 3 Y' a8 k) I% n: J# `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。3 W/ M9 p: s& f9 M+ p/ u
) {; g$ W4 D7 x( PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. X9 ]7 G8 |# Y2 n, J9 v$ v! }1 q
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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。 % c( S8 a. \) U3 c; T( o8 f0 h9 ? * X* Y3 N% b* Q& {3 {+ v2 mBut 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., d$ I0 Z* c6 q: m
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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。 " J8 ~# O# a0 x( y h- `3 x% L : E- i! N7 T! KThe 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. " p8 G q! |: ~* c C6 F* c8 O$ L( e5 I E' q0 ^0 D 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。 . e: W: b7 \8 p! Y# ?, v$ s, b K 0 k3 L4 `, ?/ f. \4 n$ ?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. 1 F; c3 L& M0 ?) m) f% q- k/ z+ C 1 [& X3 q. o" b8 [; R; x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 x2 j3 P" |; k u$ c1 h% d6 _( l& q* aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- R8 \ w7 q5 _! ^7 i6 q
0 o. |. k0 }1 {; d. t* u6 P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " f! v. s7 Z" k9 t/ Y$ J& F+ g! {- w+ M7 _
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; a; g: J$ P7 C% g0 B# \& v 6 n& }3 Y! Q4 B% o# z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。 ( q9 E, i+ r/ I" V' \$ P2 Q ' [1 w8 N/ P) I% ^6 G' jFor 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. "& |: \7 b' J% ^+ g! j+ M) l( y. \
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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。 3 }; x; P. n6 r ! w* P j1 Q+ v: NTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( o0 p0 l7 m- @- c- \; H
5 }9 d8 ^" w/ w. f' l0 M1 j: fLife. 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."" j0 L' [- u4 U7 X( s4 O
4 \+ |- K0 U6 n: n! {& @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”。7 |+ V7 W' [8 }8 _2 z* Q, L