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：3 I+ U' {6 D8 j, t4 T
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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. 0 w/ {5 A# j3 S6 b7 B" J8 f% B* u
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”。 7 o. b! R _- g3 V5 d. t2 h6 A# G
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* J- d; Y/ D+ H: ?6 `; _
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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。 , y. }4 k6 R6 l3 e * X2 k+ @, |8 w! P$ c$ [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.# E' G9 O/ F6 \' h
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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。 ( i/ [2 Y; U& z5 k) M6 W ! c9 k5 q6 e V4 } vA 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. - ]; R! _) u/ C7 x r. ~ : X- z5 H9 Y) e$ a, Z2 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。 ' v0 x2 U+ R, d! m1 j1 H: M) R* S7 O 9 O$ t, Q( o% ]: c' y1 ?, bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. : R0 L5 |7 y; O- j, p% J4 E; R" B C* o1 g3 Y9 l# E: q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。 , W/ V2 q+ m8 k9 U 1 n- K7 K8 Q; m% @4 `7 U/ kBut 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. / Z/ O0 ]; B) F 0 i# q( N }$ d1 n6 t, A% E' \2 J/ a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。 % b+ A2 } t8 a4 j5 |6 o4 V# e2 b5 t+ H
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. " p k& o- Y% O* e; J7 A8 K/ d! K ( Y5 _8 k8 @+ P8 s2 j0 ~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。 * _4 g7 J9 A$ b8 k% a- O4 ~# a1 v1 g( B7 k$ F- @/ @: S( \! X3 d8 i6 W
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. 5 u: s& w5 {; b% Q7 G" T* N
6 D& s- z$ A3 l0 m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。, Q' @! i* u/ S" s
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% F6 Y) U. w6 ]" I' B8 c. D6 e
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! e, r5 q- q6 X' @ }. R: J& I8 b
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 Q5 [8 D! r2 s' s5 L* `7 n
6 |" o2 z4 h/ ~5 ^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。 d8 j& B) _$ I
! p# {! j) }# gFor 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% ]/ ] k$ |: \
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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。, U7 |7 H# Z! ]8 {; E+ G9 E- }
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + k9 D$ z" Q) p. k n: p k % k0 N+ P6 H/ g“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. v6 e5 _9 o1 O" R
/ p% y- h' v* e! ^3 v3 HLife. 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.") n* H# j2 U' ~, N* j
Q6 T2 K* E& Y$ y1 x h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”。, M p9 W8 B3 @5 m# i. {
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