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：5 r) I' ]. p; j# L
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One 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. % V6 A4 ^ |* @* q, B$ j% H+ H9 E6 w O. f
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”。 6 X0 K$ T* f1 ^2 {+ r( y! n' k: f
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 1 a9 }/ O& w2 T% Y( @# }* R u9 \ 8 G# P% v! ^+ q" b, Y6 V% L0 A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。 3 E6 m J9 ?( u$ ?6 t# Y* J/ D, r& F+ A% X/ F0 y
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. # j' S) {! F. c8 l6 c 8 I6 j; ?& T) K4 [! |5 m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。 + G% B) ~5 x/ d$ t, l; {) x# b # w a% B1 ^7 Y5 {" p. k2 HA 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. ' N# R; o, C6 ^8 Q/ _/ N2 Y" y: b2 S8 e* h! 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。7 m0 s1 [0 `8 ?/ g% _) K! G
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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. , [+ H3 N+ m+ d+ Y; U A4 E 9 \& u3 T5 g+ x$ S. A' m4 q7 `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。) {4 N8 H7 T2 Z" O* W0 R- b
, \1 { Y, N/ }; |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.. B: _( L4 c. ~9 j
7 x |7 Y0 T9 P' ?* iThe 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. ( b, y9 X. y# P4 w. F + T3 l1 ~4 x. `2 M4 h, X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。 # u9 Q. B+ T2 ~$ ? + u, u5 L7 O/ iYou 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. & U+ N& x7 ]8 C) O 8 F, E* F0 }" a1 n$ H4 g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。 ; s5 `( V8 h1 j6 D2 S% }# Q 5 i( ~9 ~1 u2 H: e8 o* ZYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. # `, p" R. q, W/ ?2 t 5 O# {9 \( S& t2 p( `- l" ?你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; Z) {$ z/ I0 P" a
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# H" U& }0 f( m1 f) v
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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. " ( E3 n, I( d8 B) }8 D $ G- K3 }1 r" ?# k# X+ c: s1 H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。 F8 U- G% X( H' G8 y, V: Y, [ ) \8 i4 y* y8 Y8 @: q3 ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 O9 S% K' f( N
! F( j" ?7 i1 N7 m0 o; p# ^! R6 s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: F5 x5 D$ b& m& _: q, r7 E
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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." ! C& T- w# K; g+ T- Q 1 a+ M* b/ k5 p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”。2 g) F6 D" W* M$ J) j1 w
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