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：' J* \- V3 t* E9 \! j
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生命就是小甜饼： 8 j1 x5 `; h8 u" `4 MOne 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. 1 K$ f: n! x/ L9 H4 G" j# F$ q, P
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”。 , V; M# L* p7 a0 E" a6 {* O7 Z3 S+ r6 ]$ K1 l
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 b \9 L& }! v" L& J
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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。' u6 }; O3 T- _2 C
' b' K# `/ T( @& k" uSome 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. 0 U/ M2 }2 s7 J6 j5 X: j) Z1 a8 T 8 Y2 w) R0 q: @2 w& c( ~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。9 c, R, o$ z/ ]% `( N; T6 m
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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.2 y" e+ h# b1 U5 _1 n
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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。# g( }9 f" x0 E8 I: [; y. A0 X
0 X3 l: I3 B) b9 ~; aWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 N4 l5 j8 k2 G6 j o; q
" P1 A8 k& x9 j. i) W% \8 k0 M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。 ' m1 s2 J1 ]. N5 `- Z5 F1 x, s* [, ^3 j7 j. f1 W8 w$ p( c1 h
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. 7 Z8 d& x% k: A2 }8 z * f# _+ e: p+ f7 B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 R/ k: }0 ~6 H
3 L. B+ w4 i# r1 }3 X0 ?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.# t8 u, m$ n% N
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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。 5 Z6 |2 j/ O' w3 j8 r- \0 l; w0 l/ J- l. d( 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. 5 L1 p- C3 g; B$ j. Q
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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。3 R* w/ |" v$ `5 V+ q! i* \- O& O
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. % c5 n7 k4 A3 n( ]( N1 P2 P 6 `7 a; ?# y+ w( [0 Z; W你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) h8 U" Z4 o( ], x6 P " k7 R# a/ L c/ w' F+ eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! G& A1 u. @! G8 x: r% @ H$ i4 z i; m, {. x" `' V
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。% Y1 ^( }. Z5 ^- T- ^! P- i
2 K* ~" c" [$ D' K; v k" T3 gFor 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. " 1 K E. B' }1 t( Q) q- w . M4 n- ~& N0 z% D; Y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。 4 W; `0 P& c5 o0 h/ a4 d1 d) I9 Y' N4 a& o w
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# y" W y7 Q# J- ]8 p7 u9 ?+ }: J8 }; O
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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# S1 F, ~/ Q. M6 A9 y, b" ]! w# ^$ 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." ' K1 l( V, S1 v* ]2 n/ X * `/ {, M' P1 A7 l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”。/ t4 e2 \4 ^* V# U% p
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