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： # X* c% I* l, X z9 g' i7 A * k! o" d, p/ _( i' L+ r S% `生命就是小甜饼：! D* @0 p! v3 {* l* r) |
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.- } F1 Q! X+ s. K
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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”。& B' j; {, f4 k2 }& P& \
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % T2 B* J8 ^0 l2 R! x# J; A4 l6 s" s: S
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。 & S6 o$ \, j* ]9 v & @9 V4 n( O; a5 ~+ I) @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. ) y0 \7 L f2 t7 N! {* q- |3 R, a8 t; F
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。: K2 K% V9 E0 K% V" M: q! T
8 o5 F$ Z( g+ A% P, b7 ^# x+ QA 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." R8 d. \6 Z' q2 ?+ z- F
; X$ D/ O* v# H& u }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。- ~0 b! Q. G% v6 e, R( X1 @
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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. " v5 }; |' O+ H O2 l! f ; ?5 D# X$ e: p p. w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。: b' E0 [6 M6 \6 _& w
9 [: ~2 {6 r3 `4 D- _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. 6 i" c1 _# q: e4 n$ _# n1 `6 U/ T' t( q! ]9 m+ _0 ~; S
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+ ~; q, h# G$ b6 j8 z, J: V0 e* L' k* y
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. ; c, j" o, R1 R' }# y* w) \ . v& j4 s, M. H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。0 {3 H' m$ \9 Q
7 ]1 r0 H, `7 ^6 g; NYou 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. - f' t1 ?' x( g! V0 \8 K' h" m2 ]4 k; k% B6 `6 u. f
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。7 @/ l" _/ \8 v
6 l6 d! y1 h8 U( V/ C6 D/ ?2 CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) }0 M3 B U; q' g) j5 S
, o1 A( b) G2 Y9 z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 r s1 @9 Y8 y" {/ c & b: \& H! L& w8 CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! ^7 U- _$ n% F+ Y* C7 s) _
9 T/ n6 Q. N/ y* _# w3 }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。, W' w: }) l. w0 O, B# n6 g
- e& { P- ]; A H- {$ J' lFor 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/ s8 e4 S& l5 W4 Y7 C. i9 _
- C% ^0 W2 f7 p' R# o; X1 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。 8 j" W: g- Y& @4 M* @+ ~3 E3 m2 Q6 l; T# d
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# l; u; B$ [. S7 j0 j, S$ g
) o1 T2 e2 O9 z( r“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 0 g. ?( S* E1 \1 K1 X " `$ t4 k6 E. x( o4 `5 yLife. 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."0 R# w- }% c6 M
" _8 u+ P9 u) j {3 i8 {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”。 , C3 j- G. A6 b/ ]! u8 u2 m6 D- Q3 v5 s w* d
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