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： . N: ^3 [% ?3 n : B$ a% k9 [6 ^" u2 c生命就是小甜饼：; K0 `( K# H; ^( s
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. , o; U) Y+ n; q. Z6 _2 b / ~6 X E+ w) x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”。' X2 T% e$ c/ T- n6 b+ F7 ^" c
5 N6 i6 l$ a7 L2 L! w. nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ o# M4 E$ c5 C
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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。 * {9 J+ E: X' @% g2 Z! n0 m8 D! g4 G% F. l
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.* [) h- W1 y) H8 ^( H
4 U8 n& m0 [. G1 |3 V, n# Z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。 ! N6 w5 [& z; M( b8 I0 s1 l0 r) Y6 ?2 }% E) X
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.% E; a; n. ] ~% |5 |9 q+ _& ?1 b! L$ o
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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。9 O$ ]/ Q9 F+ x
( @$ p5 r+ E1 Y( ]* r; L% \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 Y& M5 j2 P8 f; y9 ~
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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。 ! M4 q0 w7 H. [* L; m c7 q# T5 b+ N$ e
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. & P8 @8 t8 M" N1 _9 q3 [9 }7 {& G! U5 w+ G d( f# e8 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。6 r+ g& v, q6 m; E( E
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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. ' {' n: c6 C: V$ _ Z- @, k# u! V4 e8 G* J0 C1 ?" k
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。 8 t' S, \1 Q" T+ c0 |) f% C, R2 H7 |1 B; g: g. }1 x i
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. C. |+ N" p2 h2 ~" ]8 _
- x( r/ f& }. ] m) w. a- F! E* \0 H" H+ C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。 6 ]: }: z# c% ~5 I* X) R, w5 t3 j% p; g$ a0 `
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- V. s2 Y) r% m. h6 _* w% r: p
$ I4 F. Z- j+ [8 r; n- D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 D/ K& N7 k: f9 B' t
# F" o n3 {; V0 V: C- RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! Z# n7 f8 {% h. g+ v! t& {4 @7 y% v Y+ w2 @* ^. ]
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。 0 F; D/ D4 d4 i& i( g: g4 g ! b8 h5 e+ c7 {3 N* k/ H, }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. " 0 ~+ x9 a/ `+ L) b3 A) P; h2 S/ _4 }
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, d3 k% \. j* _ U d% W, H& F; pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 P1 A/ G- T/ C
/ D7 u6 Y- d3 c2 i' A, FLife. 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."' s# w8 J1 _3 ~" R8 S
G* y# ^! X! w3 u& S9 o6 y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”。+ l0 h' t1 X2 J4 b1 X4 e ` n, v( o