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： 6 P- ?. L2 ^4 @7 @, M# Q, J9 o B2 Y6 V2 h; G1 K# Z7 u
生命就是小甜饼：9 r S$ q4 ^; x/ X% o5 W+ 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. \7 o5 b5 u! r$ d/ F3 o
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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”。 D5 f' b6 r2 e# q0 E3 F c- i) `7 o5 V2 Y: Q% Y3 P# i5 K
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' _. T# n( z6 ~/ L. f& k% @! I
0 L) o8 F% e" nSome 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. / N, @$ D' `) g, r 2 p; f, i: B) c- Y* H! K3 h# u- K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。9 }/ Q- [, ~: S% E$ p s8 \- I
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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." Y7 W I9 @3 G- i; H, \) L
7 D- @( o# h9 `7 e2 Y5 H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。 & j5 b; A9 T, r- K8 b8 ` ) F0 }( ?$ W) [' _8 G# w8 B. S6 HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# g! [, j; P9 v5 `0 n4 x
' @7 ^1 i& u) z3 i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。 8 M; X9 H$ n3 A/ ~ b; R6 C# I. w! D% k4 {* B# U
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. 4 _5 V+ v7 m, v, K S6 U6 o9 ^& I4 ~7 h5 m& d- e9 ^
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。, f5 d, X$ M7 D4 r
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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.5 z- s2 c2 D' {5 i: w
6 ?3 I8 M2 t/ O0 }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。 9 D9 ]- V/ o' C) B( G$ i: q; O6 P0 i" i" ^% R6 B' D3 }8 b) x5 R, r
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. & c8 E; T9 j6 E0 e0 I! G ' ?" o. a! L* X4 E) M) j; Y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。 ! Q1 y- Y; ^& E: @ B" L) L) W* n! F% p$ m
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." g- F6 y9 }& o& w: |! t1 _
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 & p+ q. Z) t" ~- g+ T$ O: K1 j2 Y$ D, l0 b) c
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + K: U0 Q) |; z2 |9 |2 J( ], I! G' |& ^3 S. f/ G g' D& ^
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。; n. Z, X7 a" b: [1 @
: `' F i. K: dFor 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. "* J, d) t% B4 z* R: O
7 R1 c! ~) c7 u; f1 O9 M4 ^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。 / ?" l4 z# ]9 [) O3 b% w3 l$ F' z6 r8 z
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 |$ J5 M p7 B" t: S/ ?2 o - v% P: E! n( M- }# U7 J( K+ a; O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 }# ]9 n( S5 e& ?9 F8 M- k7 |2 e& A$ F9 B1 D- x K
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."6 \ J+ L% w* G. [# Z9 f
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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”。5 s0 Y( N: a% k3 L; [
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