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： % ^2 y! ] m0 s, N7 | $ }- b' w* O! W% J生命就是小甜饼：8 T5 I& P3 Q( f' g- d4 e
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.+ O2 P1 j K, W6 B5 a7 j& \4 F8 Z
8 s3 y* C% C& V4 D4 O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”。 / L6 a |! \" J( `5 K0 t7 l. E' L6 V! x7 ~
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. j$ B, K# z6 M+ L
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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。 ; y& u; P: `' p& g8 H( d1 C L2 U; H9 V
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.: M/ n! j( D8 s; p
0 l; i$ U6 h( q: _* ?4 M0 }; E4 DA 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.. o0 b4 H/ c+ Q3 B
, f8 E( R) d; W$ e6 x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 H' f! A+ `, I# i$ u" y) d9 {1 d$ C! q4 n% M
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ; Q3 O! c4 I/ j* n7 d3 z; ` 2 J3 i( B, ~* M& X: _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。 ; J7 J% w7 m, b7 @" v) ^- j2 j' E2 Q0 |4 c! @
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. . C: D4 T" v1 o/ _6 F+ l) p4 U ) Q0 b4 R3 x6 B4 r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。# q3 Q" d! q5 H) ?
: Y7 S' E x. y0 Z7 k+ 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./ O" A x5 Q: M8 m/ F
9 Z" i/ {- `2 F% B4 n; f' i. q" K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。0 T$ Y0 x7 k$ O" 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. # d c! ?7 q* h1 B7 f& N- a4 Q: R- z( _) @- [" Z. @ a
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。# L$ ]) V8 y/ L8 q* e& i, D
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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.0 r: b( K: u0 y0 m2 Q! v
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; ~: x: e, y! J4 Y
$ Z8 p8 k" ~8 ?2 O2 kHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 P% i, E" D: `) i2 c$ O
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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。' z6 Y9 z' z. {% F0 C4 h& U' @' \" u& Y
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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. "$ Y7 d2 \; `' G5 n
; n8 u$ F! {+ FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 t& b; b' A1 N6 z
) A* L) t# G% [/ s4 L% s$ O* p“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 / t: y! c% K7 R/ |9 m4 h * ?6 z2 l# C; Y8 lLife. 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." a# a$ J5 L, c2 n, ?9 }( k& l - f: t; [7 p Q: ]% S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 ^/ D: N0 n% T! e. U1 I- ?+ C4 b) W/ n, H# p6 [/ z G' o2 l) {
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