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：& a6 Q; q; P6 Q7 U1 A, X6 y
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生命就是小甜饼：9 f- M& h! L% ]
One 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. 6 L2 `- f6 o1 ]' z; F$ A9 a( l K7 r5 x1 @0 @8 @, D7 ~* i; B
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”。% V3 E" g5 [, P" z4 B9 O; m
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. R. f$ K( T7 F! V$ c/ L
4 N$ D) T! ^- M: \0 D, ^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。! h* w3 W/ ~6 b; {, L/ _3 i
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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. 9 X5 H7 k+ C% K& s1 u- e5 o2 }2 j
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。4 D% c4 E6 ]' G7 n! j) M9 b
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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.: i6 n' j h1 r L: G Q6 Q
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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。7 ]1 f$ b; }, `: U( V, a# I
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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. 6 J$ ]6 B. F0 q1 q. I4 Z/ U0 m$ o7 _7 }& H' J' p8 C
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。 ' r* W5 v$ q. \& b0 m* m3 m' P' i% ]( l! N
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.+ Z- V6 @$ i2 e5 F" ]5 j* L" v
4 I; u# `+ }( b! c. M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。* T: x- f- j. P+ @$ g9 T
) E' ~- D+ b& O' v3 b5 YThe 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./ C* i% \3 K& x+ G. U) ~' q
8 z+ A( d. l6 U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。 % s, g a! i! {) D. ] C 5 `+ s1 t6 ?; `/ R! E& g( qYou 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. 2 v; G# n# z$ ]% Q4 w# A, ?0 I
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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。 9 b) k- O+ `( @% k& k8 n6 j( _5 h( u* d) e3 I, E8 k
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 q0 G2 h0 Y- I: T% g6 f' @1 y' O4 y+ c0 v/ o
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 / D: A( {" y+ ^9 S1 A- R3 a' Z 5 F: y2 M% v# B5 L, {0 K, tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : b' ^; l/ s K" { + U+ @; C) q2 s0 h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。 5 Q4 b1 B2 D/ V6 N4 L! A 4 A, D, ~) @: XFor 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. " 3 D9 U. D3 r0 j8 Z2 y6 [$ j 8 M6 P' {4 c. Z3 \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。6 z9 s2 v }- k
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 B9 g! _2 r7 X" _6 ~" M/ F' J3 }. d
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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。8 x- A( t6 `7 y7 c' b, n7 [
7 W, n3 E# R# w2 B; |* r1 ~) }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." 4 f }5 Z- {. r! ?/ R) L W, d; C- x! ^- F$ `. ?# m; a
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”。2 r: v. n: V' `* b% m: ~
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