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： / a$ |& w5 {+ J3 B. g " _) z" Q2 T9 g( p3 x3 G3 d生命就是小甜饼：4 Q) C7 h0 V' H/ {
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.4 ?( [2 x1 l t J' g \& Q7 \9 e
4 k: m. d* }' G5 T v9 G# J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”。* A" ?$ ~3 ^. I5 I3 O
j# N# i" y9 _7 mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." q n4 Y" _4 F( q! W
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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。; M. [# @* N Q7 Y6 J& C( t
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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.$ Y: I4 Q2 `' P: F1 L
( _" d- H8 E6 Z) B5 K; x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 b* H/ x8 x( j. m) b7 |2 E l- T& n$ e/ G& `9 ?& J9 Y( DA 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 G1 r5 c- v$ K" W( {
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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 C8 Z1 E" c0 M1 i+ Z }5 Q: ?
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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. ( q& j; @7 l9 Y+ @: q: _6 }$ A/ d0 y, F0 o/ M
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。) K7 Z! {' k0 [8 o6 b
- `4 t$ U9 ~$ tBut 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. 7 v: h9 \4 D0 O; B* z7 X0 [ 3 a* b$ G' R) U* i5 C* m: R$ C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。 3 z, o# l9 t6 w' k" k- ?! q {2 R: F! `' q) \2 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. 9 N4 b; u9 H- l( j) S . G( K3 W, g/ \4 U- [, M 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。 % Q& \" \0 q. ?' O ; Q+ l- `+ B* }7 J ?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. ( Z1 [ ^9 N- x f8 @" p; N
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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; A; g) U9 R0 E * P3 E# I6 j( ?# G- MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 K. N6 R2 m$ J4 L, x3 K6 q+ e* k3 S
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 - d2 J% }) B& D& [4 V $ ]4 ^7 J0 b- NHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! u7 j- [: g9 i# @) h. e5 \
2 a2 S) S5 G2 J; |. B4 d- I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。+ p+ \5 [, ?+ F' 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. "* z$ O* i; B# N4 ~# [ f+ P
: @! W. I4 E6 Y' \$ r/ ?3 T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。- [; P. E: |; I' F# v! G
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 X, F. j; [/ A* i# w0 S, w. r/ k: U# u( v) B6 W* G; b7 [
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! g, _! P( B6 z4 Y! K; ]% m4 W% P
' I) N1 D3 Q6 ^" KLife. 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." ! D# X' l, @! y7 D2 F 4 j t$ V$ |" c) 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”。6 Q2 }2 [5 M$ M( x$ z7 Y4 X