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：% j+ J5 E9 X' L' n0 J9 M
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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. ! g. D1 m: u: }; V' W7 t5 W) }+ y- A5 P" G: D0 R& L
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”。1 X4 U' ?) g4 [) t
2 \2 K9 T% M; c9 c8 v7 G3 S4 pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - s. K! Y6 m4 U9 a- \ % P1 l* f/ _7 Z2 `5 Z: l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。! y1 C0 c, j0 O* X$ C
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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.4 f c& m' @7 W
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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。1 b: X& m8 p4 w/ v" R# [; I
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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. " ?: V- P$ G7 [/ b8 E 3 e A; h% a+ r d% i9 g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 ^+ U i j2 w
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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.; y+ L0 j( b- _; v |, F
0 I7 Q, K& \' s5 X& m& `+ k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。8 g) H) C6 w: g! H
0 o4 b! ?! X/ _5 q! [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.9 `, H8 n8 j4 ^, {4 }
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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。 0 ?4 w7 U. K x5 [ 2 \8 C" E& Z# v. b( v1 \4 D2 S( S; LThe 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 D v2 ?/ f: \0 M* w2 G7 c
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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。) T) U+ p6 O( I% |6 w X
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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. ( W$ D" a) B9 S9 a. C8 `( h9 d0 n4 ~$ K7 s
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。 / X7 {+ p6 N+ [# d& E1 _ # B. w1 z2 V( iYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) p" o m' f4 G
p* ~5 l+ o. z1 D8 O. { D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 Q5 m- W& F% L# w7 i0 @
& F+ O0 G. |; `+ b* {6 O& L9 F/ eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : c$ n- f. k& b$ E3 z& ^ " e4 i) H, L5 y& I- o- H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。" c, n0 Z, y" ^+ Y, n7 I. ?
9 a& T4 D6 M0 ~4 i9 A6 W9 P 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. " & f' o' X" G/ z, V5 H " \$ B( d& X3 H1 d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。 + }, F+ }/ [2 Z( ^1 D* ]+ D0 Q0 `
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 G9 Q$ D) n: u0 Q, [2 y' r a2 \
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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。 # Z' Y* o* j5 ]4 n% g 5 |8 y: p) 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." ! Z9 P0 J/ T3 e# O2 e [ 5 p' r$ ]. V; L/ C. C2 S k7 ]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”。- F- U. r0 L9 s( U' G