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：/ E4 v; O- }5 b/ Z0 h
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 `8 d7 S& r5 `& 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. : b8 x d j4 ~6 u% _8 N # L' Z# \; |' @ A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”。 # J1 k. K! j7 h- z+ {) t& \ 7 Q2 ^' ]- H9 C6 v2 W5 R1 ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + b7 G8 o: M! |, s& \ 1 B- X7 a) X4 Q% U- A9 E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。8 U2 h$ H8 O) j/ d; U- v* N& K
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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. $ g7 I$ `/ A0 V; a& E! G5 s! z, H" B" B2 Z) Z b3 S
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。 F& {$ x- i# _0 B7 w
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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. ; w, A3 U r6 ^" q1 z. Y7 |$ A4 Y d: f C0 z1 y) K0 ^, }5 H
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。 J, Z- C* p( Y+ }" \" a% I5 f5 v- @1 _
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ], q' J% y* b, z: }' \: @4 T% m5 u0 @8 R2 ?8 a" S3 W1 y
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。 & j5 \' [! T, y+ S 2 n0 o9 ]/ ?5 D$ jBut 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 X) T+ Q! X$ Y* p 6 v" M% l8 K3 U0 N0 l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。 " s( b% B0 E/ j& d' v+ d+ l- E$ r: g3 B
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. + p$ X/ n" Y) G' g: j) ~+ u* f7 X: X0 A/ ~) x3 O6 U* f' F
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。4 `) z# t# s4 Z9 l6 d# ]+ z2 [
5 E+ m9 B) |' n/ nYou 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. : o8 N7 {! `$ i- I4 U5 A3 {) d5 W' R . u* j1 \/ a) E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。 ' R: b3 m$ N2 q- L6 f + X4 s3 `( C/ G% I& J# U+ p4 yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 q3 S( ?! s- \' v9 ^ / K8 ?+ T Z( _你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . L/ s- x2 k1 y9 u+ K- a- W( @0 Z; l* x! V; o" R" }
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. * q9 N: t" r, P) o1 K" _3 |9 i9 T5 `6 R5 v8 v; l
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。 ' R( V5 |0 q, E4 ^& g8 | ! s L& S' t0 H$ Q1 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. "+ U6 m; ~9 x% b) {& F
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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。% a, m" p3 t+ d
1 |5 n2 N8 v3 j, V: Q/ x0 fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 \, a" }' M8 M. y
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 0 \; B8 a2 L+ P0 X _6 S' F: J : Y/ ~; t' M2 K4 X+ 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." ! x- L; n$ }9 A! ~- s; k% H- K" a* ^: y) _" r E q
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”。; R; |5 j y0 k