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： / ]: {- v0 |+ q- x, P M9 p# r' n % c7 W1 U2 M; P4 \生命就是小甜饼： * C$ p+ @' F0 @' C$ }. m) IOne 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.7 x+ S8 n; \* m4 h; a
4 z9 @' a% U8 ]" A. x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”。+ L& U$ F# r! v( o% I
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( l! O/ U5 [# A1 y+ Y$ Z9 g
& t n0 e+ @. Q3 [& m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。 ( D, w% j1 S; E) p! k, P' Q; ^0 x6 X! y6 a8 v& Z$ N8 U% K# n
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+ j$ }9 k, C8 o u6 ]6 t! ~# v
7 G" m! o+ V5 \" n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。 3 r) I3 b+ Z+ j8 N9 n 5 K, W$ D* k# f* M" w# `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. ! C+ B! n+ _8 v' l/ G' D. C) x3 |, l [8 H1 S3 N4 e4 p$ q) S
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。 I- X7 Z' D* [/ }6 t; G! u
- t. F& D# |$ x) ?' y+ FWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 N1 e; k. j( a & X* c1 u. [( }. I# a \, l/ ]4 A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。/ T& O7 O- g Y) l$ @. v8 h/ [
! {; _" Z# y+ F. m6 d: M* IBut 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. : }4 l C- V, V4 E0 I, L2 T' {% w* J) z% }: z1 a4 n9 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。 # j E9 N4 C g% R$ ^- y& x& x$ j- _) Z$ e, u
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. 6 O0 \: e9 S2 U8 i6 j. p1 n' G$ `( w4 M& q t4 f. D8 g8 _% Q
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。 $ Z& z. S$ |4 x 3 Q E& s) n( d; xYou 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. / V* K1 `" a# }' h+ ~! Z3 ^, W2 V8 X- w8 N4 i- w+ 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。 3 o' M; D& P& ^1 g! T ^$ S1 S6 C & }+ S/ Y7 x0 E1 h# HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 7 q3 x& t2 P! u' u6 Z7 e$ H& r) O. N( v5 j5 l% g7 `7 O
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 + d+ f* U+ c+ l' T& ]9 T4 i u W& [
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 v, x1 ^$ _3 e9 {" G- M
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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。7 W, j& q& K. X
- F) M8 l; ]( Z7 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. "8 R; d. D- S- k+ x1 O
, H& T0 ?0 P u8 Z& t; u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。7 I* @2 s+ |1 H2 V
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) b7 h w0 K. W
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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。$ {& g; ]6 Q( y4 ~& H5 o! q
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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." - g6 F' d. \8 Y' v1 ^" M# A' ]. r% Q4 f" S
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”。. o3 L- h# ]* _
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