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：3 ]1 q# K# y$ R: x
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生命就是小甜饼： ( `+ s% r) V! y7 y9 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. 0 e: F: R; J7 c/ v4 K( p' @# w% t + ]/ ^7 D% T, Y: w6 o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( M5 U$ K6 I' U1 x/ u5 a' }
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( L% ^# w- Q/ q, U" p6 y, |! V1 m9 b9 P0 D; @, ]6 X2 L
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。 ( y1 R9 Q `+ A2 @0 L, ^; w( Y0 v7 H+ \! a, {
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. 3 J$ X& c1 k5 s0 G. d! ^; }. \$ {- W4 [/ \
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。 8 u$ h5 e- S( B+ Y, T . {5 ?; \3 X: x; a" Y' NA 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.0 P8 y: P8 D7 v3 H5 K
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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。/ O6 D% x& h" n: U# b
, [0 O$ X, U% E3 W: wWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 x z a- U1 ]+ l! V1 v
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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。 1 g' X. X$ e7 V# J8 Q, I2 F 0 b+ T# r# g, t! \8 r" e) aBut 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.1 ]$ @$ c, y* q' s& i. b. f& p, z* `
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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。# R' ~6 K' W7 c& ]( \' l+ _
4 `- t B8 @) \6 N# ^9 ~3 ^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.- P6 f9 ~, W" ~% m, S6 a( C
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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。 8 x0 b: D; Y3 q' U; j) F* G/ M. a ], S5 w6 q% R- O6 u
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. * k/ n! k: U0 l5 E" ~1 k
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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。 % w: ?$ c- B& b/ I, J Y # L$ F; @) j5 J9 VYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) ]( T- z' Q: b* f & C4 M, Y9 d( D* n4 E# }你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ W7 p2 p* U# n2 m7 U! ^
! q! E8 H5 Z% \- U1 a& eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. k) I' t9 W9 H# _! _+ c
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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. " , @; f% O4 o! k& _( c/ r2 X* q/ E9 q" |9 ^$ S- ~/ D/ O4 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。 3 n& g8 N) K- U7 Q1 g2 z [+ f4 f. k* d; N! Z
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ c+ ^; A: R' T4 Z/ x v G3 t' ?. | % g. }" w* ^" B }3 Q* X8 i% s$ I1 `“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 D: J% c0 `6 }/ ^, p6 A
0 w' p! {" E+ `* 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.", ^& |8 Q/ h. }9 \
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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”。) ^$ M. f/ I# r) z) T1 ^- _
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