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： / O4 [( ~; ?2 y! | }" b# ~& K 3 C/ s+ W7 s6 E生命就是小甜饼：+ o! i% {4 J, ?
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 }+ q% z) A: g3 f
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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”。 9 x( x6 u2 B/ T. v) W' r. C7 i; C+ G$ Q, z. ?4 I
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # I5 y( Y9 P ]# ?) _1 d' J ! q/ l- [1 V* V# |8 l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。 . j: O8 O- V& m" q. R5 @: u3 ]9 ~- Z # E/ y1 l! `/ K# l! hSome 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. + P% y0 p" k/ @' O, ^9 U9 x. r2 \3 z0 e7 l0 U8 f2 L* b
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。7 E5 o M$ p6 d- X* `) l5 c
# M) p, x' a( F/ }. uA 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. , d) K) r/ |8 d5 H$ y. x# `. r( V: x0 D4 v" 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。 3 ^/ U& u+ O9 b: a) k" y 3 b- j: R* `0 l7 F1 aWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 {9 V$ S ~, ]4 Y9 M
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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。 ) L) ~ q4 i) |. ? 2 [# N, B. U1 f. I& }6 zBut 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.& W* z. e1 p5 N0 V( k, q
* N! R# C- X" k% 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。 0 t+ i; R o+ ?2 ?+ ~5 l, B9 z' ~5 ~, R: ^* q
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.( W F- ~6 t3 v; l3 X) c, J
8 T) Z/ T; ^+ }( Z% K* z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。 5 j9 N! k! a7 v$ T. D8 o7 g* R4 k1 ~. h6 n( R( x/ k
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. . r9 \8 h! P3 t
+ e; G' ]9 O/ C7 ~* ^) v1 `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: x- y" o4 D" {0 E0 z
1 z, h4 k* S% N4 [( s; Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 |: [" u' J: J/ W) y ' E: }; x8 w) j$ v. u' CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 s6 F6 S' l: z9 {+ Z ' M/ N! g W* {- ]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。9 b% r) F1 q4 p( X- T4 e! p; Y
( u2 P1 x+ V0 G: m& y' IFor 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 k0 a" N- q2 @! Y9 j4 k9 u# Y. \3 F/ X E/ R) e7 ? f
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。 & Z6 [( U! R! t( Z" E' O + I) x& Y I4 I; ~0 cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. & W1 W- G& o. A . d5 N" y6 j) @, u G3 Q/ 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。 9 X# `* u' |- f- Y8 h4 q+ z3 W0 u# {1 L# `. ~
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."0 R Y/ v4 ?. G9 F; K4 B
- P; h; M, W7 ~" `8 z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”。* a6 T7 G7 f) M
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