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：. ~& z8 v) D' g
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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.& m1 a. v, E; X5 G% ?
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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”。 # Y. z. h- j) q K" Q! j 5 M3 n4 {7 e: u9 }. y6 ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# Q# M2 P! p, y
# W1 X; F9 v! R- o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。 7 }, P2 K6 a8 i, r: d# H/ o; P" a$ p4 v% U
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. : H5 w9 [% s* i- O! s9 d# w5 F6 C" t: z# H* G8 `4 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。 f! E$ z! N; ~ 1 x+ ^2 a1 J8 T6 U9 }, S2 dA 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. + U! T; \$ z; |/ M( Q3 ]% N 3 ~" P- W+ b& d+ A; Z! M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。; N/ E, X" `& D
$ c# [$ V1 M- o8 |When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ y& W- X0 U2 a
' Q9 M. ~9 S3 O. L4 x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。 ; o9 L" n8 m# c. m& G 1 D' r+ `1 @& ]$ {; k4 O2 j# tBut 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. 8 p. ^) o# k2 O' t) J, r ( n6 E& @; ?/ Z8 v0 n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。8 r/ Q; V+ L9 N- q0 g2 e" k, i
; ^) J( s- ^3 R* ], {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.! z: y- i; Q( v! O8 W# f4 E# l
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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。 % S! S9 t- X2 s N. \ ) c! H% Y4 j6 t7 L0 f. GYou 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. 5 o1 N( l& b2 h8 N9 N2 ~" \; w. {5 ~8 H/ ^4 R! f
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。1 N- \" A) C( h3 O9 _
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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. 0 W/ m2 O0 l- e; H1 r. Z; h( A1 C* I/ `6 D0 D; G% m% E0 g
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " T9 d/ p" L& E7 l9 E8 q6 t+ h8 y6 r% `# k; g% Q9 z+ {6 s! Y4 D+ y' ^
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 f* z H/ P# C; M% ?+ F0 B/ ?, N% q2 \
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。5 f. A4 E; Z! _- K% v+ W
, j l1 w6 h: V# V: K1 H& LFor 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. " . ~! A) D' d! t: i! d, j : }. f+ H( z' 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。 1 O8 B" [( G' p6 `" e $ _9 v A/ m) G+ E1 KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ @ n/ C! r6 V( J/ Q/ _
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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。 : @+ |- g6 X- N1 R3 G2 c4 q/ |5 t% A, D# 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."( w7 @2 ?5 R3 z% q2 P: u2 g
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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”。 0 f3 N. n4 Z& N5 q( Q) g% n0 a: D( q$ A" T/ |8 O- A! K
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