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： 5 u) n1 A$ G0 J4 N0 S8 \( m* k3 g; z* m/ g
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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.6 P& |) B3 v- l" ]4 y8 y
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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”。 3 E2 l! X5 j0 ?2 F0 t& n , ]3 w! V+ G% M* ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 j2 f& \8 r! ?6 t2 k0 ~+ a- Y
& p1 J6 \6 ?+ k$ l. d" J; I8 G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。 # Y8 [9 _& B8 f1 m2 k" r) N% h6 a9 R
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. * {- g) b R' f" l + X6 u0 c" _" z% @0 d/ C6 w2 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。& h% f: f: C. k2 J9 y# |2 {
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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.6 ]8 D; e( q% w- K8 M! c, L, {. @( }8 q
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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。 ; [; T" t' |) h5 X6 w0 U% ^! ?- n # [- E2 y9 B- U3 s' F. I+ _! z; HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 W, M% Z/ E0 Y9 t
- [0 X9 c* e' r& I! N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。 - v8 K1 Z |$ z3 ^/ I/ m/ F5 V) P3 g- V2 h' w0 v' T# e+ K) F
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. : f9 k7 @ B, U2 |) N3 O" X+ \
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。* J5 g1 X8 ]/ K8 Y/ ~5 Z
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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. 0 ~5 ^" D. `4 N& w$ |6 {- Y5 X6 d) A. A
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。 }! J* B$ k$ I+ M" [, ` q$ L) @5 ^) }! j+ oYou 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. 1 L; o' A* |; ~5 z d1 a" S - o! p3 n/ t* S% r4 | X8 _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。( p; L. m, V! f/ `. ~
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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.3 u" y5 l/ `/ N, o9 s) i& B# L
' U% d4 Z( r0 v1 z: h8 j/ UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! {! }; ^! U: ^2 U6 y " l5 S, d7 F+ a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。 1 U! [& ?& r+ Z3 N7 |9 I+ ^' Q) @# C& b+ T9 D, w4 J3 n: F, Z% L
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. " # U' R3 Y* G" l0 W# g" s $ b r9 ~* m4 h8 D. A# ]; F+ L2 \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。+ \& M" L: h5 S5 l% q: p
1 w: n3 V4 E/ x3 K1 jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. x4 b' K: N f" l. I+ H$ T
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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。 5 H( `4 D' B' b/ h: }& u$ x ' d" m3 U3 E3 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."$ v! K1 S$ p {1 S0 o( u' [) M
) g% ^2 o) I% `3 v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”。$ O- y. {$ x- p, q4 Z) Q- [3 T