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： , T1 \7 V C9 {7 ^1 l* t$ E+ ]! I, G( ?
生命就是小甜饼： ( U/ \9 W) }' X7 J9 u; xOne 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. 8 p8 N# K O% q 0 S4 T0 N' r* g. {, ?; ]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”。 ' R# G0 u8 v3 I% B1 Q& j $ l+ u1 U0 N# }4 h, wIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& F; O6 t D: n; E. ~4 a9 _/ ~! [& \
! ^% b; B2 P3 f& @8 d# h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。7 L# h6 {5 X' A4 M
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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. / Z6 M8 U4 M* e3 `$ y' q3 p$ W4 N1 y# X' j: A
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。 ! k1 }+ x, w- h' d$ O5 {6 l- T3 p: ^: v* I+ d/ i e* q
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.1 f7 V0 a5 d9 G+ y" F, S( M
0 Y0 P0 N e( B' s4 f% c! i1 d3 v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。" k3 k; X' g# ^; T
7 P2 m A5 |* `4 G: V+ B% PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. & s- ^0 w b4 W" M& [- X6 @- U9 s& C3 r2 |4 P
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。 6 J* Z. B2 S7 N; q; }9 y - B8 w5 X, u' e+ S. s2 }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." @8 K3 r( a* Y2 Z$ x4 o
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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。( {2 J4 j8 d. z; N9 Y) A
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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./ {! a4 x0 R0 H9 R* ~* u! Y
( l; Z" a0 N" t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。 $ N1 `" ? ~& p% ]9 y6 J& z6 @9 Y2 \5 u
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. a( t# S* _8 u% e8 @ 5 h$ q0 k' Y& h: n5 w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。 ' S& i7 ^, U4 r% g- u: P% F& N 5 D) z5 J8 \; |4 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: ~$ E- H: R, P9 b0 P9 ~
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 Z' S( d- `3 B/ m/ C, i% n% I0 ]8 K, }9 ~0 B# B j7 [% g
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." a4 F: q4 [9 o% ?% m# \
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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。* J5 x, f/ R* h W3 c4 X2 I9 e3 [' 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. "+ R9 r! |! _" _! j; p
2 z$ }" x# C0 |! _3 U: g& l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。 5 Y. D7 n0 g V( u7 `: V0 {) l4 E0 I( Y$ t" s' g
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# Q( R9 B& \% L
' r7 T' S- \7 I7 f“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 K4 G+ F. Y7 D3 e9 R
, I: g6 f2 a% T7 ~4 y3 g9 {6 z, ALife. 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."# f! B9 k3 S: i5 J
% W8 K; T# w9 F7 W. V1 f) V& E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”。6 N* O7 E* c5 s. j6 c6 O