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：& _5 U/ N% e& g8 m' R A2 C
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生命就是小甜饼： 0 q+ F& m4 u5 L* h, s3 Y; v' vOne 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. , H5 C2 }3 L. Y( f* k% L. {7 H2 h! Y" T
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”。& w- a% |/ b7 r/ a2 X7 @8 B R. C9 n5 x
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ) {- [- o* [% c0 a5 x/ x5 V7 C0 p
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. C. R: J: L* I: a" L# t
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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.- G4 l Y0 r4 Q, R0 x: D
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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。 " M/ W# N8 S5 i( l: {7 n ( A1 E/ A5 o* f, oA 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. 4 Z9 N- B! y! J7 q' g/ Q; _: {! s( X7 B. @8 Y7 D! n: o
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。 9 ^) r6 ^: K5 @, ~+ \1 S * @( z$ Q: U$ ] j, rWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( ?# T! Z& L0 L$ A* A! S2 r
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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 h, v# Z T* {% r' U$ A* Q6 S# k4 z6 T0 l f
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.) K; z, {' m/ Y5 W
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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。/ b2 T; {" Q5 r+ i. L' g7 x
8 Q" W4 u0 l$ uThe 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. . L6 e; c/ q7 j) [, Y8 c9 k! N1 X% u % }# k& ]/ K& r, G; Y. H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。 3 P, U4 f% I3 Z" ?1 [2 f, t/ M5 k4 {* e
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. 4 @. n6 t* \) t/ _8 _5 E
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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 D0 V/ } W# H& e6 o* e2 E0 c) `& }! W# V4 r
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) z# L% U& E' m8 w & A% ~8 g! }8 A! C) G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : C. K% ^1 W4 l- e* b$ @0 l( g' l) X
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; B) q) v3 y7 G7 h: U N3 P! }+ O" [" m& Q' I0 ?
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。 0 E8 b# b5 O, T% J R9 g7 _2 R/ D; mFor 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. "5 p+ d9 j6 T4 f: M$ U+ @
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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。 " r3 u& ~5 y! Q" b, J* E& F/ M. _) [+ h0 n8 B8 a4 W: ]" R# P
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 v. c5 u: k! i, E+ E0 G1 {
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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。$ U$ c! D: {) Y. m( o* M4 W
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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."# `: o# @ i. n/ K7 }
4 Q- u1 v6 L" b$ ~9 o* O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”。 6 @4 u, ], T/ p! O9 C. h3 @; u# Z2 w) B# L, C2 A \
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