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：- v5 c5 ?2 _2 P9 ~9 ^& R0 M$ Q8 q
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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. u- M' L( g# G' X5 u 1 Y$ j! \5 {' t* x& Z2 @* ~5 z7 b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”。 3 `# j" Q% i o. h 9 y, N1 K# {: _* g; }0 gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ R) T9 x. p! K" Q2 r! f. v ?- T
/ H3 ?! t2 Z( u0 p0 M: 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。 - Q1 H0 J4 A; p N0 \: r8 @. ?9 C# @
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. 9 G s: e) u2 u" }5 o V . x3 x; K0 n5 v( b+ P6 x' t4 v% k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。0 f# m5 ]5 I3 v9 L) D% _0 D
- i6 A; F+ A& U& z2 LA 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.- c% J4 Y2 R: R9 T- d5 T8 d* 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。, L) o' N4 E0 }. P; X
) l% D+ J0 S" _! }- h; ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! V- P- b$ ?) G6 d- I. A8 |! O* G7 F0 s0 r0 F! 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。 5 p+ O1 |" u0 E1 N" y/ P! a i. K$ F7 o' \* y5 f: A4 {- C) I0 r9 z" k1 A
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. 4 s7 H: t( y" u" K4 F& n & y: I4 w5 B% q1 {& H, S$ e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; B) e7 \* S: i. E6 i
0 F% L. |% D& E2 sThe 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. / ]0 a. s- d6 A+ I! W4 H1 F! x) t& ~/ K- K, r* C
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。 # w3 U4 K+ r4 Z F; R1 j# v8 S4 c/ h- t+ U3 M, h% q* s$ ?3 H) F6 i- U
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. - E4 N: q5 a! X* m* z9 {/ P
, o! Q- O5 M. V2 d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。 ) D6 z( @. _0 ^1 R* @2 d: v0 k0 |
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. # S# o1 N& e" }8 p 9 g% Y! v+ ]" `; K2 n8 w H; N6 R你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% |) Y$ T1 N0 y$ n
1 d; {4 T! d- K% u7 @! Y/ C6 fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 E4 D& z, a& `" h# v' c
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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。+ h3 {7 ]2 U) C$ H! v: P# P
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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. "! `- J; \3 }- ]/ p" ^4 D6 }
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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。% X8 ]" w* y6 V+ p9 A- n8 b) c
9 p+ M4 l4 g) U0 m# q2 |7 F' ]$ b3 LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . U/ Q6 [3 `( C' M7 x6 W& [7 m8 w- e% _* r
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 n4 K8 c) G: K3 X( [0 }! y% O7 ^# N; Y7 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."" @" e( |$ q+ y5 W. Z: I
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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”。 % ^, M, G( F3 K* ^' }/ b1 x- p! z0 B% Z/ a+ {2 d" @
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