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 }/ b- Z- X/ J5 ]
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生命就是小甜饼： ; R: P. c5 ]5 v" l2 ^8 _) JOne 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. 4 U5 Z8 c3 D- K4 ]" C4 T; G( S% D9 @4 \
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”。( ^' P& [, }. [$ n* g* S
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' A! Q3 a2 s2 f% R0 B
- a! y: Z: d7 D: R( F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。) h8 Z( S) D0 u% d
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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. 8 `- E$ L2 z, ]- C8 s; Q # g6 z5 J4 c/ s& I0 i2 [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。1 l+ ]$ a1 M8 e8 E/ 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.$ O8 d& K+ F6 x, J( S9 R& j$ R% ^
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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。 & e8 t' M& `% V! [$ l$ Y1 H, ~7 P3 R2 O1 j
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. J- n- c4 A5 a- g2 G7 ^' ~ 5 Z9 q8 a+ R0 n% I* o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。* ?' Y, |& R% Q; ]9 Z( m
' N& ?) a1 n, T3 VBut 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. + O# ~; X: S8 |" k; L. r& \" i+ W6 m, m% Q A$ |
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。 w/ Y0 g v. `, @: L) ?5 C ( c( d) S4 q. 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.% \) P5 M! A- |$ @# ]
/ K% P) P+ ?; j3 V9 \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。 , X# S g& y5 ?3 j3 V" v$ Q- Y/ p5 j# v+ \7 c: |. t/ Y
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. 1 C! H( Q: Z2 S, }5 h
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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。7 b3 [1 [8 a+ y# O1 d
) z( y% X8 p- U- a+ AYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 E5 e J0 x& X s
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 q0 g9 C( \$ m" O$ u! y. H+ x# X7 r( `- N6 o% I- z
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " R$ i. [' E! e! s! r1 R& m $ U; u+ t9 q: i6 T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。+ l8 A4 z3 }0 _. n
' r2 e" J" y A8 Y) k' Y0 C! 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. " ! C$ B& q) |; o/ B: _# Q' L: t5 {" R8 z8 h" Q2 G# f. e6 {* D' |
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。 ! ~" L) n, h: e6 a 1 X9 I. Y8 I' u2 z5 nTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# z, A8 d ~& h4 p1 f/ I6 w/ ]# O
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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。 f1 X1 ^* g d1 p0 b$ U6 v ' a" l) b. I" T) NLife. 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." - A* j' u9 Q p% ~0 s0 q1 ^: C% M! P
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”。 5 {6 F% Q% t9 K6 t, G# W. a: `+ L6 W' O8 W) `6 Z. ?
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