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：" P7 l) o4 e' X; l: W. B4 t" I
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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.& w2 r7 x8 B" I7 L! K: s: |0 X
3 m0 p! V7 h- \( x5 \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”。 x0 u5 z! j, D/ a 6 `# k R+ q) l4 y1 c, b; CIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 x# P: M1 a S3 U4 a0 \ Z
" m& E3 H* w. n3 F" ~! ?4 \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。 ' Q" X/ u4 M- v 3 ?2 ~- Y8 I" 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.! z1 j' J! S @. t2 a( v; w, y: U
# W$ ?" i) f, x8 a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。 7 Z/ |1 @) s* w: X2 ?, G* W$ }* Z* b
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.* C+ U, S! ]: r) n9 @
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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。9 J' V. h7 k8 A9 `' V! Q
, W# N/ }# ^2 s4 K- LWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 p( V3 q- X, N+ n: r/ G' F
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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。 2 g0 ^4 h( G6 c ' d: r( l9 m! z! lBut 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. U; I, v& h9 I1 S0 ^8 n
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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。% J2 b+ l- {5 S$ X: h6 s
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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.! N/ ?4 \3 ?) K' v4 F2 n5 a
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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 M1 J4 U# Y7 t8 g8 ?% h) M# q5 L: A8 r. ]7 O0 }
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. : Z: I5 E! @$ P G7 {5 e
) @' S7 I+ F( O7 E5 Z8 {# S" t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。/ X0 D$ D n- J3 u$ m& Q
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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. ) A9 V: C, l2 L0 S* V; L4 i ; e" c, U( P2 l' M! ^: @( G2 N3 N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- \2 ?- }1 u; C) t2 }
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: v" [) B+ y6 n0 A5 L) x
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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。 6 [; n4 B# L; } 5 o! n: F' W: e/ CFor 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. "8 G& `, s( r3 `1 s8 s' A# I
# J' {+ G1 \5 b3 S. D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。0 Y9 W5 E9 r! m" B
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 G) [$ I5 d9 q3 w8 b, W6 m5 r7 w! L0 p1 N
“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/ K; X+ Z: _ 2 P+ k8 h: [& p0 U. C' r% LLife. 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." + I5 A C! s# s! P! o) u0 g 8 I! J7 b7 A2 S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”。0 N! b& s: f3 V. J0 K) ]