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： : i& Q0 F$ t+ {; W 7 E% }) d* V2 E1 ?/ P生命就是小甜饼：3 |6 q* S4 Y. T, H, X8 j
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. 1 s; C$ d5 B( {* X6 H3 w9 {$ G \2 i) G1 @/ K- K5 v
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”。 ( M" T$ I4 }% i4 t4 n 3 U; H% ]) G! E! Z, r- R: N7 q0 BIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 2 O/ B- Z6 V+ L1 W2 Y+ Y8 Z1 N, b! l! N. c) Y4 ~+ B
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。* {0 ?' n% R6 _6 C
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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.* S* ^ P0 F8 `" i! m! ^
% e% K& Q0 |5 m S$ K' N: f; e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。 / \8 A" z. E, t; K1 g4 t, t: {. K: x* w3 m' L; Z
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.% D4 ~+ C4 S6 u3 s( `& o$ b
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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。+ v1 |% L; z6 M* X
}+ l P% |2 ?- m9 W: TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ d o h( T5 H- s+ e: g9 E# y: U _
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。 9 \- l7 I$ {( D: @- c; u) W1 i + X o. | @7 d# I) |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. 8 y& R ?! v. c+ L- }1 e, P5 D & r' E8 M* F0 p/ S2 |$ l, `/ V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。3 P$ h( B% A) M- m
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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." t, ~5 F, W/ E8 j
; B l2 b' z5 ]# W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% d1 {3 {/ t
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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. : C" j4 v8 K+ R7 Z* k( W% s) D4 x; \/ a( \* w! O3 f8 u( e
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。: A3 ^/ o" A) J* a# [8 \! I
) j8 y4 E' ]" ZYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# ~. L3 E" z* x: X6 _% b
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" P R: e! y* N3 m
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. . v: U2 A8 _& f: U% y1 w! q$ m5 K8 @7 E6 u7 r9 ^" ]4 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。7 A0 S% a$ ~3 ?) ]: K! R6 j
: d8 m3 G, i& F% ~9 t$ U, a% w' DFor 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. "! V! W$ Y# J1 [9 A; a" V
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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。# T( _! V! ^; o8 @4 E
& f' g: a5 y) t+ _0 A; l$ LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ t2 e1 y+ ?1 H% d% w' _4 f
. k/ I* C+ z! [# ]% h“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( ?# b, Y6 {, a) Y% c* }' m
2 _, G( z+ | Z: ^+ e2 @9 OLife. 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." 1 U [0 B4 a; e1 z, ?" S 0 L' N/ S3 G7 C: U( f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”。( V# ~ A1 A0 V) c5 F5 b* c
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