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： & l, V4 f: x _% R0 c( n: v: v3 _ . t+ n+ |2 r7 ?8 l' e$ X$ J# s生命就是小甜饼：, W$ U9 s ^/ Y: S' H/ Y3 Q4 O
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., d: }$ B, q- g8 Z1 e
$ t) Q: P6 C$ F. v2 B' S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”。9 ^" h: q- u, _/ T% _$ F5 F
9 b* ^0 F2 |! ~5 i! [1 ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 7 N" B; g! m7 E% K% ]8 t6 E; _! ?7 o; h1 v
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 P6 o& D* i% m7 m. i$ \9 u: Y
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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.% N2 K( n S. X# F3 ]
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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。 & c+ X- n- T2 x' b4 b+ C 0 ]/ I: A" R! d" G4 m' z6 NA 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. % t1 a; h Y) d& D 1 M9 B0 E+ D& U) S; q. a+ A& g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。 / D% [5 \+ r5 Z6 T2 q# u3 x5 l7 x1 ~1 Z8 {
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " t, f2 F. n4 \2 j8 l+ E2 X6 v0 _5 I i$ L) j
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。" _9 o9 N3 W" t ]- N
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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.2 U( _% q# b: h7 H( F
: {( M2 J+ {3 |* @2 f$ u, U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。# i7 c2 g6 _$ ?8 k0 E8 F
. P( D2 p/ s- 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.6 K+ I; i- L1 Q p# _1 w* u
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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。# Z0 V, l$ L! d
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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. 3 K: ^. n6 K0 y$ A, R6 }0 z - v" B3 i; N- x8 d( c; D: v' ^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。$ V3 _. C' ^+ a y- Q% ^
* j5 N* [4 X/ P0 hYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. t9 C/ R4 M# d: h5 v9 k
4 q3 X* r4 o4 d5 S你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) c [: G0 ?& z2 D( C $ d9 e3 ^9 o8 y. I/ k* `7 f7 X: Y9 PHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( V1 G; q* c N$ N9 H9 O, Q2 f+ Q& s2 b$ C
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 W6 _' d7 O$ _; b
3 B+ I* l/ q5 P- i) b/ {. F! c) sFor 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. "" S5 s5 |+ C E+ L2 G4 z
; o, a% \0 ?- B! @) v0 Z5 K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。' O" c# j9 V. I O# g
3 a2 B5 A/ ~% L6 l" f6 [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # r4 t) K8 W% e! L8 `: S- Q6 x$ Q* F( i, y, s4 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。4 ` e+ k" W2 k( p. m3 D
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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." & {* V7 B2 m9 _- ?; I3 B: r( `2 b; D1 O$ ^
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”。- ]' J5 c: M% F0 t" X) r# E
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