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 i. W0 l# E! O3 G( `. b7 @( e( h
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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.+ k: [4 @: i. V$ w" @* w
' m( `7 X- o/ X/ w3 {- U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”。% E X8 ~- V) k7 v
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 S( u- i* s( y / \ p; K, {, q2 q6 {' ?6 M, m6 J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 p2 W( |! b8 W0 L 2 k1 Q1 Y: Q2 s* t4 T/ Q( b/ \( OSome 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.& F) B6 A1 S9 i! R! {8 v
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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。 3 K: _1 S; \3 N1 W# n 9 `& N# t" [* x0 p. [" ]! f6 k1 fA 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. & V. \# }! c" r p / {; `! v6 q$ p# o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。" F* [2 {+ q& F. d
7 ?0 ~/ s# n/ s/ BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. p# D6 n" B9 ^% V: W% k" F6 I% k4 q$ R" h
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。 , H% E2 B) w. e; Z8 h& e5 ]% M$ u) e
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. A9 R" z9 y1 |! R p0 h
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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。 & K3 Q" A" |0 e s - i B8 P4 \7 @! TThe 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./ Z1 K f6 d8 T a
0 M- j1 v1 m$ o2 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。 : U7 t1 Z; t0 a+ P! s' k; k$ I7 _ D! F, s3 S
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. 7 f9 _6 X. \# t. v% D. A* |$ x5 a * `6 f) a g; c% C9 b p% u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。6 |8 I' ?$ n# F0 i- U
& i( w' W; m9 Z" H1 BYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ Q3 w! H: _2 o1 W7 i. Y) E
3 |9 @4 o K* N6 p- G- k3 w3 N, H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 - Q7 |3 Y7 ~; t7 o: s7 q& k1 K7 { D- b7 u9 ?* M' H
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - j* y" c7 r9 \# o * _3 O6 S/ \' y, u0 h. j" B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。 ; p7 _7 A8 V" M. D, k8 _ - d! j; F5 u# z2 U% m& ZFor 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. " $ X J; ]; r$ f: x! Q' Z5 r3 r' ~( [
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。 6 I5 |* |' S1 r# {4 g( ]- ?6 k7 V% n$ C1 k7 n# ~8 P8 b
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. O& r% p I: n
0 S3 P, ^# S% k3 v3 aLife. 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.". L4 o1 [4 i) f K8 `6 K& j
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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”。% J8 H$ R' Y+ [: O. L9 U