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：- l' Y( Z0 Z$ R* p0 q
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生命就是小甜饼： q- q |- ^, z, W! e4 \6 j1 tOne 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. 1 f9 J6 m% J3 V% k4 ~6 B ' S6 [4 W" E4 u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”。 . V3 P) E* m# R, A1 q. f W6 @7 T8 T* y- jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 H ?7 K) h8 p& U% }0 h G& R8 d' R( _2 Z9 h, x
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。( e9 r. |. p, C# v, P8 }
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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. 2 V" ~. t1 u' p) R( W# g! Q' R' A( u
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。 - Z9 z, |5 b. }9 a( M# v! K3 [& d# W' Z8 X5 T# o7 b
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. , G5 I' x1 q5 k# C5 D, u8 G7 V2 f5 S2 C3 B5 x8 l! a9 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。& i, D. a/ x$ M& w8 M/ e2 j
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 j! C4 {5 i' o
# o ?" c: l# [0 _5 z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。 7 c; a0 Z }4 a9 R+ |1 Z; v0 Q; q( @" i
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. " s3 w; L2 ~6 W6 `' ~ 0 N* [. e9 i! |4 f* z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。 X: {1 s. F& u; ~ 6 _* v8 M3 v- H/ F+ C8 Z) s/ G1 kThe 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.. }" X% f: H6 Z. l
+ N8 v) |/ B1 J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。 ) h' s$ N' B( U" r ' ?. [& }( I. K, E8 ^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. * g; q' G0 N- {# Q7 m4 t3 x) L
8 t! a/ O3 ?, J4 c8 L* \) E& N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。 2 a3 P4 K9 @! r; q + N% J2 O m$ OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." ~9 f$ F _; |" c5 u0 s9 A2 s; Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( q3 c% s$ c. H& N/ v " H3 r ^8 O. y& l/ {; PHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( F5 P& n' ]) e: b4 @* ^) l) Z
$ i4 P) q% m5 T, \: B3 c# Z T8 j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。/ d. x6 B- l6 K2 t& ^# y
5 R# N: S: [% j) 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. " ; O2 u6 Y- ]3 z2 S0 v8 S" Z: A% J$ ~4 P3 n5 Q' @
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。 " `" q# Y( t7 F$ E& `3 v, R* H- X% H e6 w4 n. \$ {, L
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) R" N9 I k# _, o! O! Z
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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。9 F7 R8 b6 Y/ T" E; m
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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."2 Y6 G+ T" F* \* g/ L' X" i
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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”。8 W! A& x% x' l+ ]7 T9 |