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：1 @6 r/ g: w7 i$ K
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生命就是小甜饼： " y( f3 b- G- X" lOne 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.0 E* d; E$ f: U6 e
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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”。# L& c/ c, I3 P# w" r& x
/ D8 k+ A' q0 c: g: dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # T; ^4 y/ S5 ]9 e2 _; G! a6 E: Y# k; S7 u( z2 q9 g5 k
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。 5 f* {! ^+ L! G5 X; J + l2 u& h: W. q* `! CSome 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., a3 u K4 s" f W8 e
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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。 ; L$ s* c5 s* I; ] : H p3 u6 M3 {4 J8 y5 }. BA 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.- R# C0 Q% T0 S2 d' ~5 p$ g
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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。 7 R/ Z; o: }! L- v5 `1 C/ D0 Y: g6 O, V- [7 J
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* ~1 ^( Z/ @, Q c) V2 Q+ R
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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。 3 J% m' `' W0 h& e1 W- O8 `7 s# ?; f9 i9 A C. x
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.' W! o4 z& N3 \7 {- j! j+ x- X
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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。 3 w4 [, O6 N# i 0 p' n/ L/ v/ T% Y4 Z: ?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. : \" c, C: i) w6 d. h! H- A" C [: Q, T8 ^3 ]6 U1 }& n# i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。 : d; J. a" y. c* q8 X2 y , ^* X+ n# @+ r) F& Y; g& O2 _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. ! h3 Q% B$ Q% ?$ |7 s" _8 }: s
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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。0 X& f) Y$ _# u" y; ^! \6 l
4 n6 N! s* `# Z, j5 P8 D6 } f2 OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : ], r& |7 i2 H6 F4 m1 o/ l ! f8 n6 j( W* d* j7 P8 \% i t0 k你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 n/ }9 X, f+ d" R1 z 5 Z% ]6 B! s% {: g# ?Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& ^2 X+ i: J8 Y4 t
+ i- f( `( c! K- O% i+ U N4 N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。 " Y1 h& u$ `! `! a6 u ( O8 T7 I7 A. Y6 Y) Y. VFor 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. " ) q* y5 c8 w- m5 U N& k " H" x; C2 q7 H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 `0 C3 D2 c- C$ ^( Q9 ^8 O4 V
% o' {1 w' w1 A) |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 M( g5 T" Z' P% s$ L) o" W, L) j
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 O9 [9 k5 D% u+ h" b6 p0 r; _4 t7 m# l7 ?# j* s( j
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." 4 `. }" z! E! @6 D" e/ w4 @* c9 [9 \7 q3 @/ O( T/ F
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”。3 L2 z( y2 Z5 E. _' e+ H, ?
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