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： % m: d& b' N. b' i0 G. ~ P $ K) W8 w& T3 S& h生命就是小甜饼： / c, x5 v! G& Q, @9 r0 C) OOne 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 b; o2 v+ V G2 |+ Z5 G6 L
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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”。 " H% H0 p! Z/ A+ M. {2 I 8 t$ l! X. e8 l( lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 2 X8 ], s6 j: M2 I7 a N* h& e
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。4 \5 c2 S- b5 s2 y
* M$ O9 l4 u4 j) V( n, [% rSome 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.# ~% ]" T) }2 X2 K9 N3 f
" K: q# a9 W: w7 W8 Q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。 , ?) }' S1 Z# l) L; }( O 1 m; ^9 a6 `' \' CA 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. 5 @8 s0 [: i8 G " ?, Z% W# @) p) c6 U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。; e& G& ]/ ?' c" {$ r' N. b0 z
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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. % s1 x4 d/ I2 y4 N# u7 b& d% { ' S* z0 b+ Q _4 x4 _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。 K: E7 ~( ~: R5 ]" {9 D3 d
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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. " T- z7 a% Y/ L; z! }3 V9 z. R& k3 a+ W1 v+ v A- C5 k! z7 Z4 g2 V: H
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。 ) y7 B0 m% ?' `% Y: s' w7 N& o, w# {2 g+ c& K$ 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. 1 y7 c! ]9 k7 _" w) I0 L) g7 O1 X
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。, F. ~) w- x1 z K% \
, @1 h4 j5 V" I) R, eYou 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. $ T X; L' U) |8 K2 Q0 E6 ?; @) u' `' x; R) k
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/ _( x0 W$ T. m3 @/ B: H$ \2 ` c8 ?2 J6 f
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 P# O" o8 V. m
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 U/ u2 J5 q) T$ k
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., K* U5 ]0 ?- C; z
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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。( N9 e1 Z! x& H9 r* Z+ b0 g
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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. " 7 c5 m$ C/ g* |# r8 c1 O, W4 C % [. A1 U+ v7 G( e9 f2 b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。9 r7 [- Y# t5 I1 J& e3 F9 q
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. / F+ J1 @+ M M' |& o. b- c ' ~" y! k9 x6 Z0 V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - S& i6 S4 V8 Z4 ^* L. X/ B" [6 p( b/ N; _
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." 9 |1 s' f8 g* d" C! Y6 c( G2 H: _+ \# i! z, n; L: B! i! z
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”。+ S0 `, H. O1 n' }% {: W5 L& p