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 y/ s0 G. e. H. p$ L
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生命就是小甜饼： 6 Z& z v% V |( f: R5 R. yOne 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. 5 o1 @$ M8 Q/ F* [* D; P2 v/ K1 c+ ~6 u# e9 C
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”。 / ]0 d2 ?4 L* d1 ?, ~2 ^ / Y* |4 @, r# @# L v, ^If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 r8 a$ }5 ?( }6 @( r 7 M- U+ i$ b1 d% z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。/ c9 c$ E* E. V. d
- C5 v5 e' c* L% h8 H) T# z. g9 sSome 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 R, D, @1 C* R% e" I3 U/ h' a% G8 W# z: X4 @
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。 * B7 G6 H6 N% j; Y- U' K. l b1 K! |/ e0 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.$ b) I7 n1 V. ], c$ M: O( [* Y/ z
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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。 0 H$ @, V! `; M9 D/ J; I 3 C1 m3 y5 F' r, j/ dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. T4 A* N6 S" Q' O4 \ ) c) x! f3 r ]6 `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。 : B/ F! z6 _- [. c* i* Q# `2 P# \' H
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. $ V3 F3 z1 B. A: J$ ~5 f/ |5 c' u( g3 h
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。 % k) X- T2 d8 j& ` " G2 @2 V) A7 S' C: X. h& N. YThe 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.% i* y% V. d/ F2 z( ^4 ]+ `8 `
0 s4 F& v3 G8 m' N; g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。 & _! ^" j: C, x; h5 w: l z3 \% o) |
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. 2 Z% E. |% X* \1 A' r
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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。5 v$ m8 C; G1 _$ p, S% `
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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. ) R+ e/ ]) S9 K0 _1 l : \1 K3 G; _4 O3 o; |) p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 o9 G" {2 ]( `! e9 N7 u
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 o7 a+ N% Q- O G. @8 V5 `( L0 B$ A
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。 ) v2 W% U! q0 e0 O$ k/ A0 R" j4 r1 T$ F- X! `: M! {/ w
For 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. " , L' k* D! T4 R, b$ _, [/ }, J* `$ B4 p1 M. [
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。; l) E" N6 ^& y; ^
' f! `9 x2 U" FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' u5 `# @, J4 _" x; B
8 A$ ?+ x% Z, h# W4 l2 g5 ALife. 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." ; v: ^1 j" v: z1 b8 n" U- R * r0 ^0 L2 h9 T u* 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”。- ~5 s7 O& c1 E; q: C- |1 Q
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