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： : T8 u! R# e" \ % E. u1 ~4 q" {# U; R4 Z生命就是小甜饼： + Y' X% Z. D6 q4 y8 @9 f. nOne 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. q u# e) L' e* C% O
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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”。 I; v) \1 l2 R6 Q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( ^4 Y' p- r- e# a
+ c* n! T+ x1 Y( S& ?3 t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。 + M4 T( J2 S' k4 p- \ 3 ~! `/ b4 T% ]- V% m1 R3 k4 Y; ySome 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.* |. D3 n- u: y4 `2 M+ a2 t
9 L( P0 @3 O0 }2 d7 P0 J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。 , @% U4 z( C1 T/ z . C' M ~% e+ f: Q4 t& ~4 W1 X- PA 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.8 P' [; y& { M& t1 E
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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。 2 k$ P, t2 ?. U% @; ?0 G 9 L7 S5 ~ N% d8 pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ \* u7 C* t" O( H
9 T8 l' R) t8 [9 Z" a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。 * V/ x, b3 c) Y$ U, ?8 U7 @5 V) I$ m1 }) O! ^, ^ B, T
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.# j; s9 ~6 J1 o$ q
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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。 - k y% M, Q' Q. j a- Z7 s% h5 \7 J. `
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. % E8 n+ t2 I5 Q6 I4 Z 6 Q& J6 ] G8 [8 @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 m: d' y6 d 1 Q) o; R5 O+ S5 r, A3 CYou 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. - `: m, y4 Q& y8 f% ], I, C * m a% O7 M1 c' e! S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。 & @: d* D# m0 }5 p6 l 9 A# h6 V h1 T- N9 S: wYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 2 I6 ~+ N7 I S ~' H * s2 E! s& \0 J9 e3 s# M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; ~; v, h& H/ G: Y. _' I" C1 L C' o2 o
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 3 }( ]. o: ~2 ^0 W7 T& `) _* s1 S# X/ F }; u- B* @; w
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。 % v* l' F& K1 `7 W; R. r2 q& t3 c; r; n/ @7 y- W& M) g9 ]) l8 i
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. "* d" E; B. f! t+ A6 r* A
; }( M6 B! a8 o6 ]6 U9 O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。$ R0 B2 N/ w3 ^" H; X+ V
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. / b4 i& H/ K. @$ h: x + c) J# P' w) x3 h7 E0 ]/ O“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ( t4 P* s4 A+ _" S( X. m9 j' |" u0 X9 ~; z% |
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." 3 N0 r; p m+ R2 ~, J. Q" |1 @5 m : w: x* t! ]3 W7 |2 J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”。+ ]; r0 T9 r5 F: C
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