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： 6 y4 x1 \" g- _) L8 O3 m4 ~! r( f0 m" u' L# e6 {
生命就是小甜饼： % i7 m3 O. a, t# I' z4 w+ gOne 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. + z$ s) g D) k6 E3 U2 h1 C" }5 I' f" F- Z
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”。7 ?1 d6 g2 z1 W7 ]
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% [0 ~* ]. @4 B# L
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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。 , M- ]0 z' u7 L- G; h , D" W* L% r9 ?; ^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.+ r8 K( q' ^' J" {6 `
' x3 k N% P7 g$ [8 n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。2 n8 I6 K2 e, N& ^! m9 n0 \
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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. ( p, m/ g- A. A( U: B% r 3 ]5 I# y# K' l3 s* v4 E- u5 z/ ^+ A0 d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。( q' I4 j* C! t8 }5 W1 ^3 s( n
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 0 y- p, X9 ]+ p# D% t- z0 { * c) n. y) @1 v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。" }8 x3 i# i* J9 ]. K ^
+ O6 q! [) l4 g* _* q" F, yBut 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. ( d8 B6 J8 Q( Q1 s/ `& e! p# {, h 3 H4 _: U6 i W' ]$ A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。' H% q, i1 W! s
. y, F9 `8 ~! E1 b( S/ Y2 F6 ~& J6 xThe 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.3 ^3 z6 _! C. p" {5 }! K
/ O4 P4 N8 p. Z3 l( a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。! v# }! g1 l7 F. m0 J( ^/ D6 m4 S
' q# o# I& |' f+ W: ]2 e5 h$ {" uYou 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. 6 m0 c5 d: o/ j, k$ K6 }8 E7 G! A' r* ]3 L& C" O8 l& p
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 X$ f9 k+ q7 \" l8 w
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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., z( w' C6 S% p
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; C Q- {/ j5 L3 b3 W0 R8 D$ ~ 7 b5 }' \" C3 zHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # p; l% [) G9 Q( ], v. S. T# l% f8 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。) |, }: v. F4 V7 |
$ \+ E, Y; j( I9 j$ @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. ", r p$ ~: W% ?
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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。 - V4 \- T* [, t 2 i2 o$ {( w$ u& B2 k) m2 oTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: T$ Q7 W) p: ]2 i/ 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。 5 B# Y9 e; l+ I" s/ f3 |, A! W. L% S; K3 b' q8 [
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." # U9 i; U& P- ] ' l2 n. m: P* U! a( I9 N, d/ h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”。( d' s7 T' L; Z6 ^0 @