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：- Y/ m5 Y F8 x5 V5 P
7 U3 d: G2 p2 B3 N0 I8 f! O- M6 S3 i, s生命就是小甜饼： - S- _ X5 _- A3 c' _2 {- f/ IOne 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.$ Q5 U2 q7 d2 y; n
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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”。 / S8 {& W) C h; x/ X% T: M- t. |2 C3 E9 o" N5 g) a+ {
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 _+ I3 {$ }" P c
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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。 5 `$ K; {0 P6 R% @8 V% F: B- d8 W1 n5 [% G$ n
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.* t% N! c2 s: K4 k6 D
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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。 & c) V1 w7 @# D1 X% l8 d1 `6 f' {" {7 n$ T& Y. k
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.$ I S1 e2 G$ D* H
' n. {0 N+ c9 m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。 x8 \8 t7 h' A8 J# b
q0 Z6 ]; C9 l; QWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . Y: i% O7 A/ Q" \2 x" i ( {' P% Q) M- R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。$ r2 _. c! |, }8 C% H
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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. , s- i) }. H* ] ) b" F/ a8 Q& ?6 S- e# T# i- b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 u; s! r8 t. s: H$ z" i
9 I; R, t, T$ ^' j. Q( }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.( n5 _5 D5 |! x& S- b2 N
2 w. x o- |: |7 m- wYou 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. % k% P$ \ U% k5 \+ C ' @$ G& G6 _: t, T$ l/ _5 U5 P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。 1 X4 b' Z! q2 v& c" o( G % W+ {- X0 u9 R6 {6 |1 Q8 pYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 Z- P* |2 L# S7 C
% K a- o2 z. r& w9 ]( N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ! K/ q$ l$ @# v9 z+ A6 V/ h- p9 @6 @4 Q5 L- N4 H9 ?
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., H0 t' a% ]. v. P; m
: F& \% L# n" e% f1 u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。' d1 ]) I- q. d' X$ Z: K% O
* g1 ~. b9 {; ?# X6 fFor 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. "4 G, F* z/ Y. D8 O; ~
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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。 * R# Q- P7 b4 X1 G/ i) j$ M! Q4 K1 ]4 F* L9 T, z* u
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ; E; R$ a& u3 _4 K. n 3 ?: I) F2 h0 E" j4 R n“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 . Q* w# p2 x5 ^; d4 U- P" c& }9 `3 C0 j. h
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." 5 \0 r C8 c! Y8 d& k G( v1 e / {" G) s; ^( |* k1 m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”。1 |: K' L' I& J' }$ A
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