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：' ~' Q J; [* K
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生命就是小甜饼： 5 ~2 `2 d2 ~6 E3 H: ~5 k3 Q5 rOne 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., H1 b# F# a }# U3 t3 m* t, O
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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”。6 m+ Q+ `3 q3 a; B. q0 |; U6 D
7 v$ h( Q3 c6 _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ p$ j+ i6 P: k0 A9 F5 _3 C* }% y# x 2 j% l5 y+ 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。 2 y: C" z2 `" t/ M* o% b" M* P* F5 \' J' l. ]8 F- F
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. 6 j& N' {' X8 |( T2 [- x; `) X J, o! s+ i; X
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 E" h; |& C1 ]7 H+ g% x( l4 Y p9 M+ x
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.+ q" T3 Z% X5 K) p9 U1 z1 |2 o
. F3 V# x( H; h) q! Y- F, 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。% S0 I3 V9 w3 @- z- h0 o0 s# }
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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.+ N9 d7 W& y2 I0 C( g6 k
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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。 4 p1 T# l- W- a. z, ^, A, v 1 y+ H$ @- k9 u: M# ]3 UBut 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.7 B9 n% C5 t3 r1 @( m
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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。 & j. w( X3 W( ~3 ^3 q ; x5 }" {* C7 S! K" `9 H5 DThe 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.' o k3 p) {, h2 M; q
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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。- n; J M9 ?0 s5 a Q) x
" z1 D# B8 D3 y. v" ZYou 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. ) V" T( S, P4 _9 N. ~" U! u1 y9 N# v d( t H& b0 ~: U
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。 $ }5 ]7 j& i5 I: d N. t1 M$ O& J8 P4 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ n) W, B( |5 l d( t* \$ w& r. B4 M* Z
0 c5 n5 Y8 M# |6 _1 ~* N# j- AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) ^$ e% X( \, a+ ]0 V8 x" c5 p; {/ K& u' O( @
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。 ' ~8 Q1 r% m- N9 z/ S, U% V8 ^: G) ~& H6 b7 U- d' {
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. " : _, z6 m2 y4 L- n2 @- H J. ~ 3 Z6 f- M9 W. p9 W( x; B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。 k6 A Z3 X2 e f. H, ]1 n. i' @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. : L, ~, z9 ^$ J [" `# e1 V/ I$ T% I& a: G“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。8 I- \' o4 |) U! W/ S5 L
8 F) K+ B2 o7 NLife. 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." 9 c. X) }" Z; D$ P4 @) l N5 H' x n2 n& Q% W! x
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”。7 o5 v+ b; i P9 S- k3 C9 k# S
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