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： 7 i0 f9 Y: W2 e' P0 d ( c( h" C$ t" c/ x生命就是小甜饼： 0 U0 e& p3 r& m3 U1 l' 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. k$ D0 _5 M: X" j
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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”。9 q, H% j4 \( |) `) ~& e! c5 e
- K; o2 |0 o( Y: m/ YIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 p) N, }2 j0 R* d0 D / y' m, G# w' k, ? s1 I0 N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。 . D# |3 n9 K) q; G! g 1 _4 U, K& k- }+ F! ?. cSome 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.: w. A1 y# p* Z0 }4 y; N$ f
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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。 $ a j% a; E6 i % m' |8 B; ~" d8 a8 e; xA 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.3 l% l: d; c; r* d& F
* L* P0 ~$ G' a% s( H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. \; f: g8 e( r" |/ t8 [ * d# x7 F' N% N; w6 f+ lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 `5 K4 A! {+ s4 T. J1 d2 ?
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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。& G1 K& m4 I8 b9 X* ?$ A
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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. ) _; G8 s4 `/ Q/ h$ D3 { 4 v9 @8 D, ?' X' ~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- X! _' E( D# S" \9 s: e & }% W* b0 O6 x. x: l9 FThe 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./ t0 } u. K# z: j5 k& h4 T
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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。 0 m# l" w2 ]" P$ w# E, A; e7 D# M
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. : _- k3 ^. T6 o/ l, @4 c- I/ y6 g. ~8 j9 ^1 U/ s
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 T a- V4 W0 r' ? : N: _$ T- r9 V" tYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., ]+ {7 U+ k# R# j( a# A& g* h7 z& W
8 S, k e* S/ X8 _" W$ r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 `" u+ l9 k6 g6 M/ M! d: k$ ?" B9 f. N T7 M0 `' h; K( w3 {1 I
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' s) C" G! X4 R$ _ + {0 o3 N$ S5 l5 j; 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。 " ~/ L+ X1 U6 U. \# h" z; k8 x( p: b/ D* r" u& R
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. " * c; ?" c- V) C" l) d/ b7 x+ f2 d1 K. A
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。3 l8 Z9 g0 }5 m6 o" {) Y8 f) p
1 o4 G9 ^4 l% D0 FTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 F5 k3 i1 \$ u8 t
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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。. b7 x x3 f- a# y) d
: P$ |! f9 t2 f3 }8 P) P( qLife. 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."1 \. N# g. o4 L" I. K. z5 S2 W
/ r4 o# {8 C. \ P' K% D. p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”。4 ^8 s0 P6 M9 R# b H) |