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$ A A. |
6 S w4 S/ u( M; r% j生命就是小甜饼： 6 o9 s* B' h3 m4 b3 l4 ?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 v& h" T5 j8 s5 |9 W
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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”。! n. z2 E* G5 u- s
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 r$ `1 k% Y5 H" U4 a
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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。# b; O( z0 l7 M, F1 ?' o1 q2 f" p
, w0 Y& E& N2 [- s# s( {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. - D6 h. L7 n* O: Y. b: _' [7 L9 w4 b. B' g
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。% T3 h' _# p0 f* S7 C" O& K
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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.) J, }9 e! M# P6 u/ o
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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。 6 W" x- M/ u( M8 {$ [ 8 e" Q) j7 L. T4 v7 MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 ^5 J) j3 ?4 Q7 m2 V6 p) U+ V- c
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。, i- D N. |( a1 K6 Q8 Z
! J3 }8 E9 @8 b p3 n" T* w0 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.; j" ~/ c8 X4 A
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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。 ! F. ]: m: }% r$ T6 ^; T. g3 C / R4 |9 q$ j+ q; ]& E+ IThe 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.# T, m5 G% X1 _" a ]3 M
6 B4 Y4 T$ M8 o/ ^* t' F% P; P9 N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。 " g" X# q& U/ h0 w6 [3 K! p$ w0 z# X7 v: Q& ~ [
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. / ~4 ~2 c- P: R5 d
3 C2 r3 g1 M+ R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。 % e& g5 p" I0 @8 j+ `: K4 G; J# o9 ` 4 T) ]; y; Q% ~You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. [! p1 b3 G7 b( ?5 ]2 z; z# h0 i. c y( Q& X% f
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 {: \, S6 V! H; a( L : V/ f* p A$ ]8 }9 C% {* R* }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 ?" q: c, h+ \1 y% V S1 s; \0 ^4 @* I0 s8 q
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。( V. l% C2 o# t/ u# F# F
l/ d: T: w2 B, g$ o/ v8 X* bFor 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. " ) p* N# z8 @* v4 M+ N 2 A; e% M% ~+ E- \' P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。# O! g" X! x$ r: o5 @
. Z; ~" Q0 l1 w! [ H. QTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 D3 u* B9 n4 W8 O
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* k- c6 N' e5 R% F
; ?% Q% L& Y$ G6 Y/ d- @7 tLife. 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." + F9 K; I& l/ I( `1 G1 I2 Y# v! y ! d* Y1 C/ K( u+ z. u2 i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”。( x' m* C; }4 t! q Z% ^