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：3 o# ^) v5 F8 W1 D& x$ q; T
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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.2 `% j7 m# Z, _" T4 E3 @
0 Q* y' O5 v: J$ P! D, I! w' Q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”。 / d- X4 a0 P1 i- u1 T# X0 y) M2 q7 Z- o7 v! X# t
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # v$ b) H7 U4 B$ ]3 a ) t, D! {0 q& H+ T+ G6 V7 Y, l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。. l1 C b, Z- H+ q
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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.( p5 n* O! ^' A. }
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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。 4 ^( [4 o- t8 h" o0 v1 ]. H. f$ M# u+ z % B$ |; q8 m& |% i: |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.) F$ J- }* ~& q/ U
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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。 3 O1 h. L( \8 K3 x) P# p L$ v) _* R# m! g3 jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. * K- `* s/ b$ y: n4 j/ \6 l 5 D7 I7 u4 l0 n# A4 T1 ?3 V3 E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 l. z: j. r; O) A
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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.' A/ n2 q5 s% y+ U+ f
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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。+ A4 v2 l2 V, ]1 I: B
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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. 6 l2 X" e' Q D! `3 p1 s# o+ R* @: _- |3 H% e% W) ?
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。 ( ?6 W: u8 T! b9 J) C, G; G% ~ " O9 z! j0 Q" z4 D2 vYou 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. ( i+ S4 Q; A @5 _& t! I& u ^( ^ ~
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。 7 ]' j* U [4 T" t6 m% U0 I3 [ R* c3 D- H8 T( y" R
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ; o* l! c' e) B$ y; B; w5 W! e+ {( x4 u- {" `* @- N
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! M. E9 @) v; F) |* d2 a- @7 r
8 u! x' D; y7 o O w- \Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 w. d0 `- B: K s
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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。 * x/ a8 Q) ~7 I7 n7 @7 `: D" w9 n1 ^. x& r! R- q
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. ": A8 {3 y8 F- p k4 v
7 z9 Y0 Z+ R: K0 S% J( ~! {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。 % Q- X# @9 ], e& K 3 d0 U3 h, Q7 L$ n/ T# PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - J; m4 |* U n& W5 S5 C1 e" e# U ( w- ]; r% `# q, O' \4 s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; a% a. N3 W: J& N
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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." 8 j9 G* X! c' I3 P) k7 ^ 2 c$ B& D; g7 k2 N4 c+ n& ]6 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”。& Y! L! ^ R" P! P- p. {4 A4 @3 `3 u