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： 5 Y7 j0 I7 V: E) k( Y! a7 ?4 } : P* v2 B V( c. z% f" K生命就是小甜饼：4 ?& z* H. ?: r7 k
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.! E4 a9 a/ {+ n; c
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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”。4 F% Y$ j' i$ H9 {4 l6 n- W
8 H( f; U9 l8 T$ C0 qIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( e7 t( P" ~: i2 s: s
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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。' S+ P" ]) B/ d2 X. i% Z( E* s% P
- Y8 Q X$ ?/ q: Z& ISome 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.2 |2 O1 f3 @8 H6 ?7 E: y
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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。 0 g1 N( T& y& C6 H+ l2 Z* W " D5 ^$ E% M" xA 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.6 g# |- \. d9 ]* I7 |
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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 f! x9 t* {8 @& `( }- @
* _4 ~# K5 P% R4 G" |6 E' hWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! J9 o. Y9 n; G3 I2 N) w
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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。 # v+ Q. s$ p O' v! Q7 b w$ Q2 L, ^0 S z& f
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. 4 x: f: M5 n) n4 s9 D4 {7 f% b4 p
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。 5 }- @, t- L- M6 l) s: J" H* I6 [* G4 B* _* v
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 S! [/ C. a/ Y4 S7 V$ }
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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。# S8 w" U5 X6 m1 G/ h
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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. ) w! r5 |& N, l: j7 m ? 8 Q+ w! R* |/ S9 D- H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。) C" M! k P( T; F" L B
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : q: Y$ X7 K% M) P 8 K# ]8 m4 s5 c; }+ C你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) V! e. h. I) e# S; \3 l: ^5 W3 c; O9 r; l
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + p% e2 c0 l' J ( m& p. _" x' C* Q( Q( \# M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。 * Q% q5 z" d* H, h4 y5 b# Q! w4 s+ C! ?+ \$ |' R
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. ") v+ ~( }2 l7 x( R3 l! X# P
" y) Y9 z) U% E+ P/ R/ P! H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 e d# L7 B7 k4 r
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + |9 S' o4 C0 G# Y5 O; U) U" v, X1 m' Z1 F8 ]9 G; ]- W. 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。; x7 ~0 k A$ J5 b) z
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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."2 N- H7 `# S$ p1 W& G
: I6 n7 j9 [0 A. X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”。$ A# M; B, m* p
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