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：8 Y- B- d( b' r2 A# Q6 ?
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生命就是小甜饼： # U; r7 {4 K9 H8 q4 }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. ' x2 t( \2 O9 O: W . P; e9 I, C u. o# \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”。 6 I1 _& d% Q# Q9 L9 Q8 `# ]9 Y& ~. ?9 o6 {, O1 @
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , o0 Q2 T, m4 q% i7 e! b/ d2 `" F5 U+ v# J+ r+ p7 A+ X4 R j% ~; Z
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。& O$ W+ n* m9 k4 ?0 y7 z$ B! J2 [
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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. 9 M7 s Z% p& L5 z% l" v5 O " t4 t6 A6 C4 T& b$ o, y5 v# f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。( C4 E7 f7 Z: o. M2 F( ]9 _
: G3 |4 L& R7 y! [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. 1 P! ~ u" d3 Z1 l+ E 9 {6 g6 | s0 E8 D( p/ \1 r" H( y! `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。 & w0 s$ k3 ]% V. |8 r2 G; }/ a; Y+ h# j" B2 _1 |
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 g6 |; `0 b' k1 m* p/ ^, u2 V
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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。: K" D5 m/ `* A) p
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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.0 y. h* L4 ?1 R* \8 s* {3 P2 d
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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。" g: y4 r6 B" U9 m8 s1 y
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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.4 W; M$ l- [- D% @: Y; H! Y
2 n) R0 c6 ~; Y: @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。 0 g# a* k9 w0 N. P0 t! m$ v1 ~6 ^$ O' R8 B% l) H! d
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. , N( e4 m# z. k7 }. h* z6 M: E4 t3 P2 n. C
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。) N" w0 k/ A2 F" l" ~3 `, S
% B. O3 t- k( W. T: MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. # `! h- B: e5 `, a h% T& q. r% e' ~% y; _" I' }2 W
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) |5 W# O& c3 U! t4 e4 g6 t0 r2 Y3 Z- Z, p U) ~( g; Z
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# K: r, d; J( H+ K4 o. L& h- X
1 w% f0 x0 ^! R3 o! @6 z+ e9 \9 v9 b2 Z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。# G) V# v+ n' j
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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. ") \( m% W6 ^* K- n, a2 H8 W
6 O; r& Q/ s( 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。 - E" O* } J4 }8 u0 j% q$ Z. b4 h* l w
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 p$ f9 a& U& K; \4 K* w
6 p$ F; ?$ {8 h9 {1 ^1 r; Y4 h7 g4 ^“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 Y8 i6 P. F) `
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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."8 L- @* k. b' j" u0 k- y
5 y6 n, h, G _) d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”。2 m/ f5 v: A2 ~& p