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：8 t% O$ Z8 J' K$ a
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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. 6 m! p, L1 P1 S 9 e* I% ]7 Y7 Y2 A8 N4 d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”。 * A9 h! q( K+ j3 W / y9 _$ d2 Z! a2 j; E; bIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 R. a# `4 X2 I7 F& `+ J' ]" C+ L. y
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。, j( X! Z9 G ?3 x9 b
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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. * H8 r: z/ _8 [$ k r3 E, L+ S; b& O" S; g# H# |1 y9 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。) N. c/ N- ?8 K/ T4 {8 [9 t
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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.( G+ g3 R# a8 f- Y! G; W+ F( ~( W( w% m
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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。1 C' t2 I) ]. o9 h- J0 W
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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.' i: u8 `$ `; E7 J1 U$ W j7 c* S
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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。 * B" Q* b3 w* [' d8 u, Q. F, l + u# P1 v4 E) h0 q8 ZBut 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.3 b: |$ C2 D! q
* V+ z5 d# z: W3 Q/ k0 Q: ?# I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。5 B8 e6 c9 Q7 h# U4 ?! A; i
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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. : l% ^ q; z, q1 k. O$ `9 [) u) o $ S! U: w4 H5 h; o' R. W# B' v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。" D! ~& {) u M2 |' z
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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. * G0 w+ e) F1 k4 z, x; ]- U& s# W
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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。% |' Q$ J7 o _% w+ w
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ |; _. g3 V9 R# o+ U* B k) l, m" |: T% @; q
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 K" e( Y5 G. E% Q6 U' m( N! ?$ Q+ J! {; J# {8 b
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. q4 k0 z* v# J3 f# c2 A; \/ J& r: ?2 u1 M# g1 U/ k
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。$ M1 [% C, |$ i/ O- S6 R1 m
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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. " ) W) |; g. a2 V3 q& J7 Q; r' j h ; Y }, ~3 ~+ ]# i4 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。 ( ?$ {5 b. Y V& S! y( ?* @4 J/ ^ k/ Z
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ Z6 |0 R) _; z9 D* F+ M& O6 \ ' B7 q: R+ T+ S- k6 t& j- `. }4 h2 m“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* @' q, V5 |5 j: K: v6 B
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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." 0 P1 O+ A& _( i8 z4 @$ o4 _ ; K; v6 n; r! D9 o& ?5 M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 V H+ M b* m1 ^/ X7 S4 d8 B0 o, t2 X1 C" K
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