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： * q7 w3 r2 _$ n" _: Z2 O1 r# N# E8 L* r6 ^% H1 w
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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.$ x% I5 `6 b: h6 X
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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”。2 [, P$ \2 V$ }3 v- _
1 F; x( D/ D4 `4 p+ Z! WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 Y; A3 f4 X! X D+ J4 C6 x) H# S " i2 e0 z4 e; y4 R q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。4 i4 f s5 |7 I: ~/ g! W' ^
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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. 0 s4 a+ t7 x9 q5 A 9 ~" N; N" g) M: s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。' N: K c% @ |; e( e3 m" r
- {- I: a& r% C9 a# G& [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.; {/ \& c% _$ r3 Z
2 `; F" S5 k# m* j# l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。/ @. Q4 X. G4 N2 C C. z
: h8 G4 Z, \4 N$ D9 m! W# }+ S" hWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 6 |5 K$ }8 ~7 F+ |. O( {5 O8 Y# I. H# V3 L3 w. j+ h/ L
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。 - [6 A9 n! E3 N& p* Q+ w. G) E; A0 X( _8 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.' ?- O/ e& u! A8 x8 X' r# A
# [* ]" y& s# @* y' ]+ @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.$ s1 Q6 [8 V0 ^- v1 e7 W$ H& P. e
3 S5 Y7 Z7 y1 x2 T" ~# j$ Y0 ?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 Z8 E" K6 ^& n% b" Y9 U
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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. , f4 f& h/ t8 j! ]
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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。4 b: s0 N f( C& t
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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. 8 W* Q+ x8 ]5 I: J. d! V) o1 [2 c6 n/ H+ H
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % `& U) r- {) ` 1 X2 p& r: L2 L. Q, W/ _$ s- ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' U }8 P; B* D6 s4 N' ~- r) i! x 2 |8 `% K4 Y; I2 m# ?" w% Y% S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。 Q0 G8 a2 @3 F9 [) d4 S- q- M0 e# x' P" s
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. "3 r. {( A/ w' ~9 n3 _9 W
5 k. v( ^" ^* U: W0 X$ M; f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。! t |; r1 j: L& j* [
9 h/ h2 c3 o# Z% C* p2 d0 ?* MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. K0 N/ k/ o) R
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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。 ) p% R7 @( u4 }7 w1 p6 J! u" \ / K1 F' k8 G9 M; @2 ILife. 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" X% f$ I+ r5 r# V
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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”。* K+ C( h/ I) V0 ~( ~2 Y
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