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： / v0 P A; w/ H+ m8 i X9 d) y 9 i8 z0 C! ]6 G" p* }# x生命就是小甜饼： g( `+ s7 P, Q/ cOne 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." J+ X/ S4 B/ G2 }
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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”。( C( n% }- ^9 |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 B' t# a$ w" @
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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。 ( u4 w$ I/ b4 l" B % Y9 T3 M" z6 n8 P9 f' }) _% SSome 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.8 z* J# e4 m l' U# h, X7 w
2 I. R. ?$ G* o+ Q0 Q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。, ]- y4 A. i3 {* `4 w9 A+ R
, q. O) _) b" C& q( y, E- \6 SA 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.2 G. ]( X& P! \' L5 ` L
& b" A0 B- o% K& h4 a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。1 I5 J8 |) ]/ R4 L; S
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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. $ S" ^3 A& E3 b% w- |2 ^3 d $ j' V* a) C, q! z# v& U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。 6 A/ B! e6 M* a ( H, x5 _+ r% ]* K/ l3 R( vBut 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.6 ~& y, T: ]9 j6 m, @
, y# l C h; y; WThe 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. & B1 H$ m9 p0 Q2 n% `% \5 {+ G7 L ?& T& y4 H$ N5 p7 l
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。4 I2 v4 }8 w% D& V7 T$ p
2 R9 h7 N! i! r6 F! w' [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. - s. X" ^( B9 y! K& R
2 @( ?, ~& Q; d8 N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。 4 }; x/ R' t% p* J; I8 j3 Q9 K2 W, n4 Z+ O, i y( {
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ; ~' F, G8 G: T" g) J / R- D9 a- J8 O4 F! ^1 T) W$ l你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- r! o# x8 H; g j0 x' Q+ L
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 H( K" e) Q n6 f
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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。 ]- J) x- @1 l3 V ( S7 q% R' k* K0 X& p( zFor 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. " * ~- y: Q& V# `, n6 D9 r6 [# M7 B- B1 \5 A; ~
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。 " q; l! l+ h$ e9 J. Q r ; f6 z* b% {0 N% D% D" W( |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ B1 m3 b8 ?! I, h
4 K# T% v# X. T4 e2 s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; h; Y$ D! [7 ?5 Y' f 8 v7 v* J f: f' O4 ]1 j; b( E, ]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.", Y$ l; c+ d# T' y6 U4 Q% V) N" E
9 s+ J" r% o% b+ \$ t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”。" J! [' w8 b1 e) K8 t3 n L