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：- z9 g0 O+ m7 f- V8 u7 R( w+ H( C+ l
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生命就是小甜饼：. U9 \* L4 S: U, T- ]2 D
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. 9 K0 d5 U& B' V6 |4 {/ D. O4 L$ O2 l! i( A
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 j1 Q3 Z7 }& S) V
$ |- }; K, u1 ]6 p& o" lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 A# G% r# o# s C! i, v8 H$ C) B* u 3 ~. V! P r! B1 f" 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。 $ o4 b0 b$ e* P5 I0 H 2 c" i7 e% a m% E, `: w) ISome 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. 3 s2 k/ ^; S8 J9 O! f: P1 q G! G) w" C
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。 : D' T) A# }" Q. e 6 c& J0 Z4 M: w5 DA 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.+ y: ~6 h s- p2 r; I: F6 S
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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。& D. K4 h" K% I8 h$ f: b2 X6 l* y* L7 K
( C @# C# i# C: R, JWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 V8 Q4 A" ^) h: O9 v f
% S H3 [/ z- Y7 C2 U# ?" w! V0 m( 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。 7 K" o+ {8 U; J - z: m. \* e5 d7 n, f- T& g" MBut 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 o2 A4 y* ^% z" \% ^7 t' u * N0 I9 i1 E( V% i8 h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。- O3 d1 w& D9 S% k- }" ^" f
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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: \# C! p- S' g$ {. Q8 }
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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。 ; g- ]) @* J: j 3 f ?0 X( m/ h' y' K. dYou 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. / x7 ]' z3 |, ]- _7 Y
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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。$ U/ J/ @) f H/ o j) g; U; f
& r& p( \9 `2 VYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. . t# [; q8 g7 j" ?5 R* }" s5 x4 D$ S& ]. C0 c0 W
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 s! B. }1 G3 }! Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. M5 E9 w+ G4 P: \
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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 G' w; U6 [$ H. h/ l 5 d) }2 w u3 `" IFor 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. " , a5 _5 I; ^" t9 H. m E 7 }5 E# M# s& |% 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。 # m' ~: E3 Z% F, V( v Y, v$ w p9 \9 lTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , M% x$ {# z8 t6 G5 t9 I D ! X8 F+ j7 A; T7 {4 j% F# t; t8 {“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 b* ]. s4 \5 u( r! @
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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." ' W/ K; _; V# o, F & e4 f% T: L' o" g+ S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”。8 e2 g$ o, M% Y: x1 }5 g