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： 4 C9 h' F+ O; h0 ^* o ( v7 Y5 G9 `+ p$ S4 Y* X生命就是小甜饼： q& u1 ?: S6 M. Z1 tOne 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.4 Q Z4 e# F' p* n: [
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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”。 " D" f; D v$ ^4 I# U 4 S2 I+ a7 F1 I1 w, dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 H" M# @: b t1 n) h+ p 5 t/ [* H$ A" H5 `, c3 \, ^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。 # r; {6 X+ D1 R* w5 `; ]7 \3 l0 v) N8 w% ]" T
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.3 ~7 N# X0 Y7 s" K7 T2 g
8 m" N' E/ b$ Z8 ~. z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。( Q" \* U M6 R% _' p
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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.# {& _- F# ~+ |2 E
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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。 5 @% d1 W, d; ~' F+ }. } 6 L4 D( w& {) a: \% X+ l% {' R1 g. pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. y6 ^6 S% [/ f; t8 G7 F+ h( r+ C" v' M % [! Q. N* N8 a1 J* g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。- S# I* U% ~' D* a9 r6 y' q
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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. ) D5 a( Y) B1 q9 C0 \8 X# p; f" B+ L$ M, C+ B8 C
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 r5 s9 N" ?1 B6 }
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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. `9 Y/ O9 v3 L. Q. m, u
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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。 ( o) p) _( b7 @% {6 E# e! n1 x( T* M( V/ b2 u" ^; F* 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. {8 x- Q% F5 q% A2 y
7 y9 x9 \4 _' P* J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。 . X# p6 b& N7 F6 `) Z . W. U& ]- d* J8 r. C& j* e* s) _$ xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ W; d' L5 k) l& y0 B: V' O
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : x! p; n$ e1 s" }3 k6 X0 K - g+ O" |3 Z% gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & ]' }8 X% T% A; C+ ? G. z7 L& P( x: |9 `0 ~* }
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。1 T" l7 W9 s. b9 P- j) e
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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. " ( d; b# b) d5 b5 L8 w; [ ' H4 k7 ?+ C, c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。& Y6 [% v8 \ @1 k g
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 \# r/ [, S( L6 Z6 p
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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."3 i$ o( L" q1 L: u
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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”。" S$ z Y- s) |& R/ p/ h2 e