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：# u+ }2 y0 X& L7 b- S H% U
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生命就是小甜饼：6 K0 {$ R9 z; Z3 Z3 K
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.! k: @ p* |/ w. F
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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”。 ; k2 u3 q# {+ L ^ Y& d0 b! M5 M" o% ?* Q
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* M) |% d$ f3 l- p+ |. K
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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。9 X2 x; T5 P# l" I0 t7 O; i6 i
/ J% k& b) T# G" M7 CSome 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. 9 w& I: x" P% A. k/ k8 n3 m8 X1 Y4 {0 h( Q
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。" H' g3 M/ }1 t/ v8 x/ [* M: C
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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. ' {' H- G9 j. M1 f& g : U4 u9 b( [, I6 @( T5 n: }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。 r6 `9 E' S8 k4 s% o1 H9 e3 t. Y" T( m; d5 t9 l9 E( C2 m
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. * E2 s+ u6 Z) ]! S; ] 6 |# F4 `1 k4 s9 V' ?# q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。$ [" o4 R' q; H9 G J
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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. $ m( d$ [& \9 Z) P 3 ]5 i% R3 U& p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。6 W5 J. O% V+ y& e
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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.* V: @, ~$ q# P8 j
9 t) u% e8 X; Z, S. O0 o6 b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: ?* h/ A
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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. 1 J4 r& Z: Y S2 v. F z+ O8 I
! M x1 D) k d5 H( g8 V" ^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' O6 M& ~; F0 T6 \* L
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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. + W* x! d5 X" c, \. d( L3 Q/ {* o l: ?% a; W' ~$ c# @你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* u2 N# }4 j$ \3 S+ _+ M
& b6 r! N) J' q8 Q, f4 Z2 pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' N* B& h9 C9 r# F+ Y% e : ~( R5 h% ~9 q G. l G3 Z" N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。 d8 }' D& ^3 _3 S7 m; V( @# [/ B1 _7 G a
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. ", E! O9 @3 ?7 G) q5 a
6 e+ \3 |3 ~. L& D3 J4 @% N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。: a) S* S$ E0 @# @" h7 ]: k
) O9 L6 S: z/ S/ gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 5 R: j. G2 N) I- J Y. U2 H8 \ 5 a& U. h& \- o- X+ r1 m5 D“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 _- n9 y$ A* i m2 ~4 j* e1 B 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." 5 I% G6 K! A1 g/ f6 f2 V: |/ M: u: ~, H! w! k6 j
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”。 9 P, d2 a; S8 V+ Q. R1 R+ h5 y& j% [& c
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