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： 0 G. E# X7 N8 C& D9 R 2 p# U: s8 W- N" b' D; ?生命就是小甜饼： - c$ f8 t% V- q2 j% 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.# z) U) M6 B# X
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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”。- ?1 ` A9 @* r% i* t$ a
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( W' O$ [- W( ]1 b- E+ u6 b9 k( `# \0 @8 @% N
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。# w- B" H0 @* e- D, p7 h* V
8 d. J5 J5 H( T- U# fSome 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.- q1 `& R0 v0 U& N0 b$ Y# a: a
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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。 9 m% ?( }9 t. H# N; S) \# \: A- b \+ A
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." O- a4 L( X( T% ]: q9 y! \( W( t
& K; n8 s1 o! M- R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。5 F9 p. A8 u" ~+ j* H8 Z
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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. ( G- u* |( ^# x% | x * ~8 F1 C3 J; R- V$ o* A' B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。0 N5 m3 Y3 m1 E0 E; k
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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.+ s9 t5 A( e# `, 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。' f; l- Y" Z$ |# J1 E
3 C% P) m# k% [/ z5 JThe 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. 0 ]# Q' |! f# ^, _8 Z/ ^ 7 c- E3 ]4 k3 ?5 I; D; q) S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。 + G# `* Q3 r3 m7 p5 p1 N/ J. p" D 3 Y4 G' a- j4 {4 ^; ZYou 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. " i* f* K5 v5 G. |* L; V
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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。# K* Z5 k8 D0 g
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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 m. o( j$ ?1 J3 s c( n: N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ f- m8 t0 E, w% @
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. f* h5 x% E9 X9 T
W3 C+ W8 ~" u+ \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。2 d- I( u/ Q2 P; B4 {! i5 D% E6 n1 O
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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. " 2 A! L' f+ g, P7 I5 \$ Z, z5 m 0 N$ W4 c" P" j5 c$ w' b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。 - n5 T3 v+ S2 W; @+ W5 i/ j8 D& ~6 L, Q8 J' ~
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# ~6 N# \/ Z$ T! g4 {6 p7 K
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 m5 @* p O5 [4 N0 r2 d% W( h
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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." U5 _7 q1 d( W! v( I
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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”。/ l- I# z% m; a