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：/ H/ c0 B7 d2 j) _) U- X8 P4 m
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生命就是小甜饼： # e Q D( F0 z( O9 BOne 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. & l$ H0 q s4 O, [. o& g# c1 N9 c& l" S2 N, b, p) m) q
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”。 ' M1 a- Z% W5 L( r2 ?; e2 {+ P: r4 H& ~/ U5 P
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # o7 W. @& O" ?# L( f! p ( K- m2 Z5 D7 u; 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* K7 C' ^ Z3 G5 i+ Z 9 U ] s% K2 ^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. 4 g+ U1 Q+ ?" k ' d/ A7 M7 }+ J; Y Z; r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。. e* x9 p3 f1 @
2 ]% c! K, i$ w, iA 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.0 b" M9 U/ I: M: J& |) _
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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。0 t4 K+ y9 C3 K) `6 u8 l0 e0 ?; ?
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: K3 G# c+ Y0 n# h* D
5 B2 r" Q0 p8 G8 i# f" M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。 1 x* |* `, B; J: d: q# A; R, C: j/ \5 G1 x" q
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. " n: F1 W0 A# m5 G1 P0 I2 j% g* U9 ?3 @3 E' Q) r, d
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。. Z a! C# D t; y' T* E, M
. Z* }4 n! T0 |# i s/ _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. 1 G* b) y$ g q7 _ d1 J) {* q F) m% W/ v$ \, P
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。3 j8 k2 u5 R G# M+ u2 }
1 ]2 {$ Q! H: KYou 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. ! W' @6 Y9 ]0 _7 U
}6 H1 J8 z+ b8 oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. u+ ], g- T) U( \9 i- ~
" x" O/ Z3 v2 o; b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 e! c% v4 c! h* U! g$ e$ k# o: Y0 \ _3 O6 F0 D \" @5 ~/ I
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 R- W4 P$ S: @& V3 b7 ]! x% u5 b4 u' I2 t" 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。 6 j! Q4 U. c8 a$ s% x3 l l# C5 u$ }# b6 s/ m
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. "- H4 s6 D2 R- x3 @. E2 U+ ^, g
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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。1 T/ C+ j) i9 n! \6 T
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. & V. {2 S' s1 |! F4 T3 O, H! T / s7 I. w7 V& t1 }# q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % n/ u% B0 R( F3 V ! e6 G% q3 s5 y; c A0 \1 w: v( rLife. 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." ( x; ]1 F0 D% v7 G. B w+ ^. a0 t' ?8 k f! t2 ^* G5 ^9 [: H A
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”。/ B, o) d0 W/ _/ ]6 |# C; D