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 }- F9 V1 o: s& S, Y2 C: U7 C- ^0 q1 L+ ~6 o; _8 k: C9 D9 C
生命就是小甜饼： , [" ]* ]) T5 G; xOne 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 c. W) o. V3 V! f" v7 d! F; k# f4 a: o* e5 w8 S3 G
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”。 / U( c5 m7 o+ A: J( I6 g4 ]+ K6 E3 h2 w! c1 L, c* [2 q# K$ q J( e
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. & a) J( E5 S3 ]- ^, q6 b* f - S0 l( h# c8 k' h' 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。 $ \2 X5 `( K! H/ M: O1 X 6 z0 y: I. @9 v' aSome 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.( |- E8 k7 d+ G& p
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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。 g6 o' W5 ~+ F [ ^
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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. % D7 u- _( b) [5 q" P4 s9 h! X5 D) x8 [: k1 i
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。 ; n* ], i0 u% k) r% n! \5 @5 r: S f" Y/ \( u$ D# e
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& ]# o& _+ _1 V3 g& e
# a) z, F/ S; E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。7 A! g; O. w! V2 z
! S" p$ \9 g h4 d( nBut 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., _# s( z3 T3 a) U7 T# _' X
& Z3 p" d0 s% ^% f5 V& ?* |- F- ]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。4 C8 j, `; U; N1 H. i! D9 U
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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. ' ^: N- D6 L$ s ; n6 w! T, J' E" z E! C2 r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。" e! g, Z3 c! c, z- W: @
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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. ! M+ H' j4 u3 g4 A. B. v( \; Z/ V1 w
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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。 8 I, Q( \5 `' J/ D4 h4 v( W& ?5 V: v' s: W: s2 W: M \7 }( C9 p
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 n- b/ W4 ~6 [7 T ]! l* Q# M u4 b" `2 B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# R" l3 ~& c/ J: F) q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( p/ z% E( z% Y" T" {
3 }1 r4 J' z5 e6 U+ w( d0 S# ?) H* jFor 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. "6 V2 M1 m$ C" d1 v$ C* F9 K6 x. g
' v! R3 P$ C' {) k2 Y# _9 Z! p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。 f# Y! W& V( s* Q5 S- ?, R4 z* m0 ]3 l% y7 Q
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 1 k! q/ [0 s' T" [4 s0 ^, {+ P9 n, L8 z# ]# _
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 b0 d; u, G% |; b. Q1 S" m, r) O7 H
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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."+ n, k. ?* L' g1 \6 `
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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”。4 U5 X S' C: q/ k! _7 {