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： ' M$ B& h$ T3 G5 J7 t$ z g2 I+ u+ v+ q/ X3 ?) V# \- Q& @# [3 s
生命就是小甜饼： $ x7 N2 g+ y/ v1 G. 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.) m: {( q8 H9 a B
7 ^4 \7 C( K, l7 n7 v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”。8 B8 D/ ~) m3 C! H+ [% T+ A& _0 w
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- l! f; p/ h0 w/ ~ s4 }
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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。. a( T9 z% L" `% I9 M/ ^9 N5 e2 F) P
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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.( U$ D6 A+ m2 _" c, U# y" [+ u
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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。 6 K/ Z' k+ o9 V) P. p+ Z# T* P$ a
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 Z& r4 r8 _' }+ z3 p1 o- s# {5 m& c6 Q
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。! q3 v: B- }3 K5 C: F% D
" T5 l/ B' C; f, @ lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' j# ~! X" W$ W7 G7 S
, T0 Q3 K2 q* v* t* n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 s0 O' |5 r* p7 i6 f2 M9 {
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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.& e/ _/ Q6 \" y" _* }3 I
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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。0 l% k1 j/ h/ S- G
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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. . f; u1 L, q7 Q' E- t$ T; _) n0 y w/ ]. ~; a/ z! n
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。 / {0 `: e$ ~2 R+ `- T. [$ F E" U$ ^+ c5 K) {4 U% E% v% X
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. 7 E6 ~( O' h& f w9 e5 e/ 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。+ v* [. a, @' b: i
, R3 c7 ^3 W1 z5 C, hYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., E- m, L' [ j5 Q/ Q9 Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 C( v4 S; ]3 Q7 U1 j. {# C; U : ?: K2 P5 B; g0 y/ a6 J3 fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : B ]) l4 ^# ^+ a* q: o/ O . I: \+ ^. W% n! n, W: k% {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。 & X6 {" C g2 \# ]8 m/ } - i; |+ K3 S' \3 UFor 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. " , f" S3 c @" u, l; C9 X9 |$ V2 x% Y+ Y( T& p: }& d: [) g8 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。, k! ~1 j' N6 Q9 |/ N4 x
5 I: g* f) S$ ~8 Y+ m* Z2 ~+ kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# p& `0 B6 J3 |; l z, a* `) k
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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。 ( O" a5 _ P; |1 u1 I3 b6 z( I% h3 M' Z0 u1 ~- B
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."! f: |, d9 n; l& _ n: |
/ Y/ y+ x2 S0 q' s$ o+ v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”。- F' R4 M/ k# k! k. |8 r8 v