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： `. W2 g* F$ j O7 x0 u/ g
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 J; P: _' c; A) q$ ?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./ c) h" p2 k. \* C9 |. I9 K* \' ?
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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”。 0 D8 T/ X6 y7 n% w : T4 z) s7 v# v- r, e z# kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ D6 S6 D6 k+ |7 p' F6 y$ W! l! f7 t, D, e: n; T( M$ O2 o/ w8 ?* G( {
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。1 @& @/ W3 s: c( f0 t$ a
4 D9 b9 }( K7 nSome 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.- w6 n! R8 _3 l/ j9 j5 c, N
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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。 5 y% t0 f( ~8 K0 x+ H7 G; A& Q& l) `1 T0 E' q
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.5 [: y/ t& g9 X/ B; v
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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。# M6 D5 v0 _. |
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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. / J1 d9 _8 K) { % s% O1 y; t; v) F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。 ; r/ }( w/ k3 j- I/ B4 X 0 c) r+ c Y. Z: k+ |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. ; d( _1 A# @; l8 Y7 W; |: e5 A0 a) W6 w
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。; U; B2 L; G' X* o
C, R x- T, G5 ?' rThe 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. B0 v i6 C% |& O3 N# ?# o: f! K/ s- Z$ k" b+ B
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。 9 N8 B A+ e0 S/ d6 _. y3 n8 D8 m/ s% G K
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. 6 O1 c7 ]' K( {& Z+ Q0 p1 m# Q5 Y2 A* Q9 Z' R8 J6 K2 w( r5 u
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。3 e8 U' a {% n1 B* o1 Y- ]
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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.# P0 \1 M# u( E. ^$ ?; ~+ m
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! \( m7 Y7 d' p* d/ }0 {0 k- fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; X" ?# n B, `) C( S/ C0 E% A$ G/ O! R
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。" B. g$ s: z+ S) E
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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. "4 m) f8 A( }# e7 @' d$ L- S% U; ^
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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。, ^1 w# V& M8 H9 T s
% u4 N, G+ [' m1 x1 iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ( W$ X0 @2 n: ?. R3 t" h: j _$ j; G3 h* X6 b7 u! @0 @$ |& Z
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。9 w# u) F& n8 }3 [: x8 z
2 C" J" a: i9 i/ I) w8 A0 }, V/ {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." 3 ?0 D$ n1 L" E5 A+ N( n + U5 P8 f/ p- t/ ?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”。 G2 l+ O1 x) E% Z: m y0 }6 _) F5 V
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