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： & ?7 \: e0 a% n4 X0 e% b% z0 |+ ^& f& A) ]3 Q, j; T
生命就是小甜饼： 4 F. ~: x9 e, M; m2 COne 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./ r* d: V) N2 T1 \, a. m, u
. X6 Z% m( W 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”。 2 A. z. v' \( }- c# p G/ v/ e C( }3 I- k8 F, Y) v5 c
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / y5 V% Y$ L* [) a! M/ z% K . I. @3 {3 X9 @, u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 t. v0 ?2 m5 c0 M1 y
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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.' H$ S1 [6 S2 C3 d
0 ?3 p, E* H; H$ s. ^2 a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。+ H5 s6 V u9 p0 W2 A' v( e9 b4 d
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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. 7 S6 n* _- @3 |+ d0 b3 ]% w; G1 u* P& @
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。 % W8 z) L7 L. c0 _3 p, H8 D4 y- b) `5 B. y+ \# \( ?4 T# i4 v
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. - U/ Q! W! z V# m- v/ T7 |; A* \0 H! c+ E3 A! ^8 Z1 p$ D/ W
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。" V* y* s1 ^0 d& e4 C- O
; G- H, _: b3 @1 c$ H% ~4 K4 m- |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.4 Q9 c4 d) X& r4 U& ]; z; }
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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。4 E( H! k( T/ v8 n
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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.% C4 F; a8 w& D1 ?9 U! O1 s& a
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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。 ; @# S. V3 r9 M. P/ O* T0 d/ L ) {( ]& N1 ~) |; `( ~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. " `- x: }/ g9 n. M9 B7 X r" J' ?
/ s3 ~. o6 D& J8 Y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。& [# b3 r& c& p1 L$ e4 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.) ]/ D& f' r" k
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 \' u# |/ g/ Q
$ t; R7 a% |" r0 }; \+ bHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! g' D' D7 W. e, q8 Y ' R3 z L- |6 F7 I! L, t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。 % ~$ `# n6 g7 m6 \* K 7 F( x0 O/ z9 nFor 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. " # p; r3 p9 u% @( o) U2 k4 H2 J' X) |, n2 \0 L
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。. O2 Z0 K2 V2 s
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. {& Q; c7 e& e( X M0 e3 @# v5 Z) Y
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - H7 _/ V4 X, j5 S( o9 D, B/ e" r& F7 {+ g; Y+ g4 Y3 b
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."; ]3 w3 Z/ m3 c
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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”。 3 X! H6 R2 x7 U1 O: @# e- c1 _% Q6 V! c
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