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： & V4 p8 ] i2 U- y$ x0 N; f2 J# r 2 n1 k$ g. }$ \. n6 h生命就是小甜饼：9 |6 D7 h2 T$ [3 j- |) T
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.7 w2 o/ T7 e1 E5 q, G9 \
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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”。 : q1 c% }( j( l: r, r ) y1 G$ K7 H* t& w0 j6 kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* Y: D7 ~0 z9 S+ s. _, i8 Y
! o. D! b) K( e1 D$ |& @8 g( z! _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。 ; K; f1 y2 o, _' |) J% ~6 u, h 9 S, v; T+ |! U. M' O% m" c9 kSome 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.- @/ ]7 N$ y# a) W
3 g" ?+ |. j) @2 M4 R6 {# }! _! P# k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。 ( ^2 n! R: w, z% u3 o. t$ T8 ^' H8 e. u
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. 2 z! Y- L, q5 c( b9 v- ^, `0 m& N3 |: E8 V: 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。* ?* D F* n9 R" W9 S( v5 W
# v! k ~6 _2 A9 HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! z2 ?' L( k7 w [' r( I) D" W# B" }: Q1 K/ Q" B1 s8 B: O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。 : ^1 h% Q, {4 o5 W; w * @" f& e, N8 v+ l4 ?) hBut 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.# a4 a) i% u; M# z l* v
]' i' H% Z) I( g" \' ]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. 2 f( ~* v5 n1 ?2 C( t- F ' G$ q, p% |; u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 j+ ^7 C n. o9 n% g
( u& y6 F4 Q8 W6 e9 ^) e' ]/ PYou 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. 5 C" q; v& U$ ~; K0 ]+ N8 ?3 E( Q8 e1 r7 T( {
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。 u# S! E! L6 ^
! J. H/ R( B5 E9 u4 fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ p2 ?" b Z- i0 I
1 r4 s. q* k! P, b# a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 B8 V9 G) F8 b7 a6 T; M ^
8 E L6 s/ d; C7 t' V* ^/ hHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; z9 d @( z6 h1 r4 X6 S! Y
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0 i x0 I4 Y9 x6 R# y) o7 WFor 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. "' J/ E- y5 p$ ~: I: z _
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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。 " q) L( @* b4 ] }# T# C6 O! E2 ^/ J0 T1 ]5 E: {
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ p5 A9 `% J& O6 L7 x5 L$ L4 M
, ~7 P' C q N3 S5 e) ?1 P5 f; i“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " z- n$ C" h F a. ~ - b+ W& P5 A4 V$ _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." * j; H2 v s, E/ c: X2 l0 \$ U 4 X( s# F q& k! u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”。' @! T" h n f9 D