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： ' D3 @) D: G# C5 O8 ^! w7 a9 `. C: P# E
生命就是小甜饼： 3 M J B4 v5 s h& YOne 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.' p. g; r: ]5 O6 Z
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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”。! F/ @: f6 h; N! F- ?/ G
# i$ J% f: @( MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . F. w: V6 @* E) ^4 p9 _* U! c, q i. `' T' c. [1 I* k& x
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。& @* w" P7 d5 A% t" o
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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.9 c- M" u6 S) @6 l0 L: L& [9 M
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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。) ^2 W/ Z/ ]" N ?/ Y% m4 C Y% P7 ]
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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.) i n4 `* s. f/ ]8 j' y
% M# m. J& @2 F+ Y7 U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。 & K% G) h9 v8 Z & \4 C; L- Q. v& ^" G" XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 j& I+ Z; q( Z% _& {1 O; d
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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。, c/ ~* E) R" I, o3 M. g; L
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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.+ i5 D5 D# N8 a# ]8 J
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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 I" i6 X! R5 Q, N$ n8 t" K K4 w0 V3 ^7 p. [6 n: ~; u, N
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. / ]% D/ M* }4 J' M7 ]) _ / |0 i' G- {- F# d) e2 @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 r! A$ j5 V! y& b% h ; R$ Q* k8 f3 M" q. I, R- B$ ?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. 2 v* a7 v: T, q8 P: M5 Q: v1 ~, K& E: ^( I3 \; @* C+ ^0 B
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。 : z" i1 S% M3 v# ~; J - I6 [0 N( G7 {% n8 oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ F* `% d, G) `5 `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % k4 f9 B% e, G- d9 X& l8 O " b/ z! l0 P4 M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。; L6 e$ l4 f) ?; ?) W* P
1 d S7 N. S8 o2 y5 x8 c* qFor 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 C5 J* i J I8 ]: e+ Z f. [: b5 H# s/ l
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。 9 Q% ^9 X4 w! ?: @" L " ^/ k! |7 N; Z% MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - x5 \* a( S. Q% G! p7 ] , I! O. s6 V2 o( J& r“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 2 G% ]8 T) w) D0 Z, m5 E Z4 d: O3 w& m8 ]6 }, |2 l# ]
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."8 r+ V7 J/ K) L" o& K- [( H7 |
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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”。 5 X0 a6 l) y* s1 n/ ?# _% p; O9 T6 d3 i! ~, o/ t( ?* _
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