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： , s0 J8 w8 J8 g, r6 W- y. \ ! k# @' Q8 H% S9 m9 P( K3 i生命就是小甜饼：; F v1 f2 m: g, u
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. 9 G, y' k5 y7 C* Z : Q% K7 Z0 Y( U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 U. L+ t: X0 @7 M( w7 A
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% B( x6 [0 }' Z/ Q. }
; \" n o3 _; ]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。8 ~4 ]- d! Z4 [/ D7 V
# u( Z" j, ?! I( J5 R! q" L2 F8 jSome 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./ p1 @1 M+ k% @* `( B1 M K& v6 S% _* ~
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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。) D0 X7 c* W& ~- h* `
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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. $ A! ?5 T/ `: p+ |; n; c m; w) Q ' G$ ^; l* o4 |; z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。9 T, X! G6 K# c8 N& ~+ o! T% a* F
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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. ( q& {6 o) Y+ ]( j7 ?1 i r5 `% e; ?; n7 p, `" U- P; 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。5 [! N1 n. z- l9 B( F7 n
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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.# h% J1 a1 \5 G; g$ o/ c4 i( R) N3 B/ t
4 N7 p ~/ }, _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。 7 \2 l% T+ W$ \! P/ E ! q$ p; H& V$ q- v4 HThe 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. / O- y& A7 d1 d# C" F) u) v y0 ~2 l0 \( t4 T8 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。2 J! d1 p( c: @2 m X8 @+ X
+ x! F2 p, S6 G5 @2 b9 u' R4 KYou 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. 9 Z' ^5 F4 X! F9 c
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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。8 f* i, X/ G& z% N
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 ` E4 I8 e, j! @: s 2 \4 m; @4 h: _4 G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 v4 I, Q, o" }/ B9 F% q; N, s I$ {. U: _
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , m f9 Q/ v T$ a3 @ 0 L! J* b/ c% g! u4 _, k' G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。 i5 B, l1 W8 Z) e- e4 L' o ' {/ @, Q3 u- e% K8 D6 rFor 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. "7 b9 u: } D6 B" y( B
5 C$ \1 I1 h( Z1 V! ^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。 / r- I& C3 c6 s5 I , R, D9 c5 S0 s' f0 W% {1 s5 OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; j, H; I2 y; J# x' h7 n: k- c' v
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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。/ a5 z" B* d0 J, i1 Q% M9 x
/ V; z9 {% p8 w3 m7 M! ?7 v0 f' u* Z! N: cLife. 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 k8 B' g+ z( }6 c
# K& @+ W( F5 Z& D' F5 C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”。 6 h- O/ b; j; f& t$ M2 R2 M! p7 r c& k# D5 @# l+ l
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