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：; X8 ?& B& J: y
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生命就是小甜饼：& F7 A% D1 Y8 h( p) C; f1 V
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.3 _7 t/ O8 h: E' d
0 [1 [, P: e3 I: H7 y: \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”。' y {# S3 o" t. _5 a( `; b
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. e1 ^% _8 w; {! p, B( Z. |9 q: I
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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。 0 X' ~4 i4 a1 O8 h% b- Q4 j `4 {; v7 \+ N4 `
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 l3 C1 c# G8 |8 l I
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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。 & k8 u7 s# a! J8 G; g0 ?4 K ' w. m) |2 h2 @, k9 B( v) jA 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. + c: i4 E* ?* b" a) n! ]" M6 |, F ) R& A8 T+ s4 L$ [- v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。 ( x; s( ` ^8 A7 ] W9 [+ T8 {/ `5 A( W4 E- Z& \- g: e
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 5 @) O) S0 @- V* G, G3 P2 `2 H1 R/ V8 ]5 i3 S9 s
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。 : s: w* o$ @2 O) z 2 K% V: u2 [; g9 c' iBut 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. : n3 G) R; c C5 K, u5 h ; T5 w ]; U, d' 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。 ' H+ @1 g6 p; w3 q & u) @- C! d; N5 @) }6 k" m4 {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. ' f! C0 S: t% S' q9 O, @: G0 r0 h - ?6 A2 N; Z; ~4 ]6 k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。7 `( L: f5 f, G. R3 c
9 t6 M0 \$ l4 L) pYou 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. - o P0 m ]* _% q5 e0 a* a# t1 p" }1 e9 z m
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 A: w; a" b6 }9 ] H: o$ i
, p: X# T" H# {# f% i, p8 rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : C1 O2 H _+ E& K, v( K- d) D( x 6 Q- w0 d' c* R7 H( f. E你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; w7 X. [) c# C/ \( Z 9 `- B6 u* @- e/ \7 ?) f% YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- i- I4 I. J2 [! c# w- i
$ v8 |. V5 Z6 @( S, m7 ~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。2 P; @/ o( Z# @" N3 B. h6 |1 h; s
1 g! ~: X1 S3 KFor 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. "- j, u0 Q& q9 p B3 N4 T
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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。0 ]8 w8 |8 U$ m N
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: [; s# y) u3 g; l' k! y; G& \
/ d) Q2 b( N! L' T) }3 R6 R+ ?2 LLife. 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." 5 V( w* ^: w5 ^3 v& x+ [: o. Y6 @6 v3 e& P1 O
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”。( D& p; A: D$ N* K7 g5 O