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： / n$ H0 i/ g5 S8 ]' |" ^% ?; ~0 _% [2 e2 t# V2 n- ^
生命就是小甜饼：6 f! Y9 i8 `! C' J2 {2 q
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' f8 c
9 ]' R' C, u5 {& S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”。 * X/ \: m0 ?2 p7 {+ x: w! J( W' d' d2 I* c& e
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 ? u" v/ G; t y+ ^; u
. j' j- q" m; g0 W1 b; C, K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。9 @, u" R [ n6 B9 ?
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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." I, z" ?' F( C; t# X. {; C: ]
, i; x3 ]/ d$ Z+ nA 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./ l6 U7 Y1 U' i6 T
" Z/ ~ W& Y* b! Q: k# _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。 & q' W0 q. K* ^* V) N2 b$ E& q" f: ?
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ A4 V- u6 X6 D4 w* w
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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; z/ H, ]- X0 s2 q- ~ 9 n6 i" M7 }/ ?9 GBut 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. 5 l" g! _) ^5 p- F+ x* l0 G- Z% v' p1 g
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。; _2 m- C1 P9 m6 @& i
! b8 G: ]6 d6 J& zThe 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. " v7 x0 K4 V/ |5 N, F0 M/ L, S4 [1 O
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。 . X9 w' [0 R) }' D. O7 G 9 U4 P: F; ^4 C/ W6 [# B0 vYou 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( B3 U0 \7 g; Q ( U5 N% n; p& ^9 i0 x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。 ; ]2 |! z7 f2 E4 D/ k }" i / S! ~& Y8 t8 |( E3 y- BYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. + }1 K* l8 {5 T. t% A0 P! ~, P5 o6 y0 X/ N- J/ D# z
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ r7 I6 a) T$ c% W) h/ q$ ? \
: H0 s1 v1 n- u) F, t' EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 1 W1 G9 J! F0 t; N! U: x" u+ W1 r: k& g9 c& u4 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。- y6 B' S! S6 F' I# j( a7 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. " , F% Q) S9 Z) s5 M $ P3 k) a& ^1 \+ P6 G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。# Y. W9 ^" Z6 ?1 b+ o
9 H6 B4 M" v9 Y6 t, q7 m! gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 1 [/ e' f2 _/ l1 J4 X) v8 S( k0 e3 @6 v
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 3 U8 w; ^4 f" X% y $ B# N8 u6 d9 S6 b" qLife. 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."! P1 o6 Z& u# q$ x' U2 e/ [% @
/ s' q. U, J5 \, }. |* ?9 n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”。 , c% ]- X* h( t3 n# u& ]( Q" u6 Y- j8 H
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