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： 2 `$ b1 l8 f+ |1 l4 o! S1 r" |; d$ m/ _
生命就是小甜饼： ' n$ n9 m. q1 @$ W7 [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. 9 D( J$ c: q$ Z# W( {3 A . U9 T# C! n9 G G" b# f& d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”。5 {7 V8 S9 F2 v0 E
# o; }) {- b4 s# oIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) O6 |5 T) S: p% s" J
/ v. z1 q2 \9 C9 ]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.& N$ u+ ~/ [6 X1 C
! e. E9 h. U, j+ U- y! p* T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。 3 Z) j! ^1 m9 `* k; w9 @ ' w5 G7 D' W ]& RA 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 s. ?! E2 f% t: N
+ p5 h: A% m6 `7 n) `# Q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。; D8 T9 Y. Q" k3 S7 Q6 v
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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.+ M% I4 O3 R* O2 d1 d3 t K& G
0 v* E2 e. v5 V) z! P( W& z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。 % i1 S' T% ?3 G' o" y, t& p: t' y! d
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. : m3 H+ _+ i& a% f$ I% |4 B# C- [$ `/ `1 ~. B2 d M
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。6 L$ q3 n( M: T, _% R6 y
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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.2 l/ h8 x& Q" }: X7 T. w
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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。 7 d7 o3 ]& Q+ D! L @! n 1 l7 Q) U3 |9 `8 }1 b$ XYou 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/ _9 i0 g- s) B8 C4 a' W - J# I1 n; n$ H1 M# \1 V% u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。5 G) b5 W1 u' `. Q }& m8 x
" E4 g. U7 L/ j0 n" z* e$ GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : l2 z7 t+ r, m7 n% b0 t ; W" Z! \* t9 c( N, t你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 g1 D& f$ }$ w9 `, \8 t! V, ~
0 a8 p9 B1 Y: r# K" a9 c$ LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 3 f) Z. J: c* |2 v* u: s! g" G # U6 V7 C$ }( U/ \) e& e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。6 ?5 p7 F1 Z8 P5 Q9 D/ 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. "9 H9 G; \$ M7 g0 c( w
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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。 + c! Y" b9 U" S( m+ x/ n) Q6 Z: ?
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! v0 s- T& D5 |3 p% k
; K( O' {+ m* X“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; c4 o7 Z& K$ z( }5 f* W. [5 k, m* R. u" ~7 T+ m9 Q% R3 g
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." : _- s0 R0 ?7 L( c8 z* z2 L' ^ 3 }6 ^& ^2 _9 j1 C! z5 A* ]1 V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”。) [2 M R1 `% p2 X$ `: R
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