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： & S- G, m3 G# f- Y2 z B7 @# D- l& P$ L$ m; h8 _' u+ k
生命就是小甜饼： ( I! I& w. @% V) T7 f2 H5 D4 lOne 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. 5 b6 L+ Z5 P: H* b+ s; M' y/ W; v! o: B0 I3 r0 F
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”。. @# }. ]: e8 S+ B. O9 x
0 O% Y0 M) h' s/ mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 C. P5 s, U7 X( ]/ ^* d; V- e, y4 `2 T% `2 d- S
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。 / W3 ~1 } f" T4 u( ~ 4 W6 R0 u1 x& `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.5 Y4 v W9 x1 ^9 P% P/ n2 ?
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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。* l# ^6 _9 } `4 m
6 y: T5 @" Z/ l! P# gA 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$ A" I5 Y. T
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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。 4 k8 q; a$ |3 N4 ?. r" Z9 [+ K 2 m0 v9 d# F V6 b. T& h8 T& w1 NWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " @& I) g* r1 W( V* D" y; M1 s. @+ T0 ]
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。 . o" p/ Z7 _9 U. T5 e+ ] P$ G' p, l y& J; S
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.( J1 _3 i# j6 `; Q$ C- |
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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。 ) P- {+ h; Q% w( \1 D1 F 0 q5 Q8 N: @% K ~0 hThe 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.& U7 t2 o/ D2 r1 B$ Z% p7 _5 E1 O
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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。 6 A% X1 q9 D" P# a1 ]8 S: y- c1 c5 B" v0 x, E
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. + p# K' H4 m6 Y: K2 p
# E" Z7 S( p. X" Q- [& F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。 $ X( e+ Y, c& ~3 i2 V2 U. }9 x4 e }' N
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 a \! ?2 z( f( c
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- k& u8 F. b& T) z# @
$ r, p% N( n5 JHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. / Y- W. \8 a6 q9 L* x3 w7 V6 e: S' C3 L2 j" d5 @" Y
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。8 k; W$ u" {4 ^/ q! w) H
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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. "% f) L# n- \2 K; T9 x- j
3 b! B, p( ]9 H* H( \( Y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。( a/ [; D- v q& d; E" Y& x% A) P
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. * F* f# M8 Z8 f6 ^9 I) {# S$ `% B( p; T9 R+ N, W0 \! _/ r
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " ~ K9 ~, y6 \! z , A! `- a+ e/ vLife. 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."$ ]5 e. V; g0 [
, z1 I6 @: o) ]" P- W3 F( R3 U D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”。! n5 \( S3 G; m) b% w0 n