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：+ z ~3 L8 |/ R% t; p
5 ~; y1 e x' Y4 _生命就是小甜饼：) c) S- I3 J8 D8 e
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.$ f* h" }9 f$ Y4 W% O: p8 H. P1 q& t
7 e; q+ ?3 _8 x- `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”。 : |8 C, x! S- P4 @3 h- \/ m! Q F3 R; N/ H
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ J5 _+ C" u1 O+ S5 H+ g
/ t% K8 ?8 R) Q/ ?4 s2 {, ISome 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.5 i' H5 U1 @8 c8 R" c0 x" Z
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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。5 r) D5 x9 { u( K
% m% F) g* _% F* p U( lA 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.; {% M/ V7 Z: P0 ~' U3 g
9 `$ D7 p7 W) t/ oWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ n. m5 M- ^) x2 G6 ?( O* ?4 T% @
! M* w: k% D8 |/ H& Z6 D- A" d% }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) V1 F' S; y
; @3 u" x4 J2 t7 i/ I) B9 lBut 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 I2 q( r; K+ Z" F( ^
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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。. B! U+ s6 Z# D6 H- `/ X5 H
( |' m( I K' FThe 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. / L1 z* ^6 b$ K! J7 }3 d 8 Z0 I+ j4 {: D+ g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 I5 o* @8 B& w. ^" [/ Q: a; {+ u. R* u; `$ |
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. % ?4 R, r- j* F7 q- E/ y9 g8 R# ~! m/ ~. u; F1 q
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。 & d% Z* ~$ Q; e: a7 Y0 R+ Z " G$ L" A0 c" r% F, R$ p3 dYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% E# |! u4 n6 N1 R6 V
* i0 F4 @: a: ?- {0 c; q- r+ s你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ! @( Z/ \! {+ Y+ }2 r t1 e. [$ V( ^# H
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., |6 [& o* l" _! E
( K/ E* H4 s( R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。 + q0 ^8 m' o! ]+ P. H* `1 c$ Z7 k3 ~; ?1 I1 g- O5 K
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. " , f& s0 q9 I* ~+ A' y 4 \/ @5 i) J' F' i) D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。 * |2 I: n2 z. k z6 Q7 ~2 X # q5 Q0 c5 H) f, a1 }Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 l+ E; L: h' J5 n5 P3 k/ I5 W7 [5 g) {
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。8 F3 ~2 ~ b! R2 \' ^& y: r# m
5 X, q) ^, S2 V7 X( c5 ULife. 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."6 A0 m# [# B, P, I2 u* W! o
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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”。* G% ]4 W' x+ H V: a* V- s5 h