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： 5 y* {5 s+ R- y I$ A* V7 b. Y& ]0 c6 s
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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.7 E2 ]7 ~4 h; |
" A7 e# R3 H' H. y' q# n( q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”。' l$ k, G5 ?0 w# g" u9 I @
+ _; t# @; ?# t( W8 _ wIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 4 r3 Q( V& S) q2 P- n/ e# {4 `$ N% k* a8 Z& d
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。 8 |: O t7 `8 ? 4 d; X7 [9 D1 i& P0 r% qSome 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.: ^2 V; N& B; `# d# M' J
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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。, L, H4 P# L6 ^9 X
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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. ! K1 N: Q5 i* c2 \- _" [0 k 3 K/ @! X/ Q/ \) s4 O/ Z3 i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。 ) {9 @8 F4 }, M$ i. h2 ]" I* z- w D& X/ O3 D
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 V, R* V8 F% V' \: j( X5 h
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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。 ' g' z A6 ^, p( ~- D / ?- x6 C# K- i" i2 ^! D( JBut 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. 9 ^3 ~; B6 \6 |- W4 j7 [1 r9 R
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。 & _) \" c s7 {! y: Z% v $ V" W( y/ o% u6 uThe 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.5 ?" r, h {6 ^
8 [+ Y' M9 j/ M; ~- j' k7 l( k2 Z! ~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。% N; l9 {; @5 X- Y
9 L* s7 K& D$ ]' b2 X# r1 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. ! z+ e$ A8 t/ T3 t- n, U& @. Q, v- ]7 Y& U7 X/ ?) {. J
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。- t; E1 ?$ q! A
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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 {8 _9 M1 a! [% |7 Y) z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& Y; v( @# U( O, T( b. j
" S2 I( d7 X3 {$ i6 oHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& M$ ~1 {/ ?+ A' i5 t- E
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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。 7 e$ A7 E+ l; p4 D * D% A! i8 L( {; l" i# J1 vFor 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. " b! _0 K# v8 h; R4 @3 O
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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。 5 A9 t; {1 d9 l3 ~4 a* i2 E: M2 T. N2 m) a
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; r, \8 ^/ S' W
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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。3 J. T. p f6 M. j
' o* W' A4 ~) k! S( [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.") f3 E7 }/ G5 `+ [
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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”。3 i7 P0 v Q1 L7 i6 z' Q