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：) b* u {3 T, b' q/ ?
; ]# H& H- u* O+ T2 ]* a生命就是小甜饼： ; e) S0 l8 a0 ^+ wOne 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." G1 y$ |8 q/ b( L6 d6 S7 G7 x" h5 P
( q+ i# S! h! X$ l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”。 4 B& {6 b8 U; K: v5 P$ u+ |+ B2 S6 ~4 l& p3 A
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 C) ?) {, A4 i( 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。6 L$ [5 c, K, i
9 R. i7 [2 ?- NSome 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 {- U% y$ D& c" s) F/ U9 V m! b0 N) f. Q
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。 : D" z, ]4 {/ X0 R2 ^# E( Z7 v3 K T) d9 V. N( `# R6 F; j
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. . W3 k8 {0 @' i1 K 4 r A0 g4 C3 ^8 ]* l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。 ' b, u# M e" _ $ e. Z% ]. Y$ e/ a8 dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 W- y7 W3 k+ @) _6 u) J# m+ U
3 o: m i+ J1 {6 pBut 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. ' N8 \: A3 n9 s$ ~: ~7 u# G* W% g9 ?$ V2 P3 m; G0 {0 s
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。0 t2 S, z4 z A& Z2 m, S
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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. 6 B3 ]1 p7 y- i4 ^% m, i2 a* ~/ A( }' \, O
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。( q# ^; H: }% ^- l5 L8 ?9 u
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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. " L1 M* T+ y( n& S
+ z* r% Y# B8 S6 N! [- j3 s/ l, mYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 N# c% e3 K- W* C7 z w
7 B/ `# n1 R* o! q P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ ^, }4 g/ M+ q4 F8 m# U3 i9 W ! v" }$ T! j* s4 CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 8 T5 L I4 W2 }7 X( E/ m* [& f; M- D6 g7 g" v [% e
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。/ \( L4 _7 o l1 D/ y$ V
" }" x/ s: A3 Z6 I K% B2 h* hFor 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 T* _+ Y) ~9 g% ^ @( o5 C* B3 w( {1 z' p0 g2 @9 S
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。 % A8 H( q* x0 @& c9 p: ` 9 \% z4 o" m4 cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 1 {$ H4 v1 A1 t' [( @, G4 d" c) L9 s+ e5 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。 $ t) W* p4 _8 R' A. ?* r5 |4 | + B" \" _7 h" f* G* Y$ f, |4 F& |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 K6 u: ? Z! d' v; H ' @$ W# ^; |% |5 [1 l3 Q- |$ K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”。& z5 W6 l! j& V' S0 a