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： ! S C) }2 P, W3 H8 J* G ! R% C5 y: X9 z$ a- j% I生命就是小甜饼： * k& Y% |; f3 n8 @. m3 J8 lOne 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. . \: Z2 N0 ^- f1 z- j3 @ # }. X+ n( V; W8 N1 U! 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”。- A3 s% A4 L* T) T
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ) U# c& l7 V* l- a 2 D' `2 w# o8 d" ^( B. |- s- K& v, g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。 % N$ n7 x4 _+ d! h0 m. j6 J% Q6 H ' N; l* q' S3 J0 ASome 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.& C4 E) \9 |' l1 R
9 R+ G! ^, |& j+ 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。 1 E1 s" m3 R( _* D- [2 P* H c% _; i# j8 \
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.8 r5 }8 Y, f H4 S" s
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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。) E7 L0 G" W2 E9 b S
/ G" `; q9 A3 I6 wWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 c( Q( a' M/ [: u. A0 ^
& b# \, D% ?, |3 C- H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。* E+ L" U* C w, m, \; [: X. ~9 U0 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. . }9 ^: }% _5 i/ Y" X! U3 g. F* {) X# @# v* e7 ~
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。 9 h1 } g ?6 \$ F7 M/ I 4 g/ R6 O9 |" V5 m3 a) O" h8 kThe 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. % M/ R- S: L6 A: ~7 |) ?% o) _% ^2 z7 l. Q9 w/ ^
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。 + @1 Z9 T D, e% N7 H+ W) T1 Z6 A; O, o, o& {
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. 5 W0 X0 M7 V, e5 y' s5 I1 M9 c- D7 A' 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。) q# j) U' x. J0 s L$ R
# g; q+ @5 n- `6 S! rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. % X0 c9 w* u$ { & t) E0 a' d7 L+ c& I8 D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- ?1 N9 ^! t" W/ y1 \
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- @9 g: x( Y/ e7 F9 I' P
0 Q% f$ X& @; V1 H7 X2 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。 2 E' ^4 c3 `& P% Y/ U 2 a! x2 j3 r! ^# G; FFor 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. " ) k9 E' D1 ?4 C6 _( w; ?7 s/ e3 z# r! X9 H. L' x9 H
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。8 e% n% T: v _$ a5 m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ y$ d. Q: T; v9 N, o& D
' A) Q+ d' V& A+ k! E% `0 `. V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; D6 Z6 W: F/ N l1 `' t3 ]. V+ e7 D& Q% p
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."7 S5 J7 x0 C# Z0 |- ]9 f9 G
) J E6 g9 ?* F# l1 X z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”。1 s2 }8 u0 ^6 i9 d% \' G
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