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： 2 o, ~6 ?- B7 s1 j+ F1 k3 ? 9 _! b5 j& Y+ w. `" F生命就是小甜饼： 9 B0 K5 b* @' h# J/ UOne 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 X5 U' C* |- `2 k n
) ?$ M0 ?$ R( s- u+ a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”。- ]: |, Y5 f! i" ^. v
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 7 M& O$ h6 e9 y% ^3 G6 U1 g# ]: L* K( K: k
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。% M7 M7 [# g# t" r! X+ H" T) d
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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.* S+ h I8 a U5 Y* E4 O. ^
6 c0 O2 x$ P$ A& ]5 z# L/ ?* j4 C6 \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。 , D: p! [ E3 L, B4 S" W$ b( i% ]3 x9 ? ! x5 v/ C9 c7 G, s8 _+ Y' B& ~8 `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. : {6 q& j( y2 o0 `# r4 y" y/ |% K; h" i6 Q, w! S* ^. N
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 k- O* z' J0 @1 }
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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.* k+ j$ q8 H6 v4 d( C
9 i+ H w4 P6 k# L! B- ]' T& X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。, \6 p! p- }. ^0 \% Z- G; c
C+ B. |8 s6 q+ Q* [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.8 o7 t9 g& K: u: V, \* T
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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。# K2 h6 R( z9 e) K! ~ D) @( L6 G3 E( H
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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. 2 G. O0 D- J; R% D5 ^8 l$ ~8 g% n& Q) t* m
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。 + d6 `, @+ y1 L' i$ |; N) v& ? ; ]% S) i% |+ W$ MYou 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. & Q2 x; b0 ~2 L! J " u/ ]. V: s0 H A5 R, 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。( d/ e3 W; \+ k- J& ]* p
6 @. G; C- J+ T" v1 XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 g# Y6 y& o) m" _; z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 M; Y8 k/ M, ~8 j1 S% H! f - T* h7 i5 O2 k, D! ?9 YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : N( o% W: M7 R7 v$ ~3 f v2 c1 l7 o. A
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 w& {4 b3 h9 n% ]9 O
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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. " & @9 L5 G3 W0 _: a/ n 4 Q8 O) R) ~" u1 } _/ E% V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。 * ^+ I+ ^ J8 d8 y) g5 A2 b* t a% J6 w5 I) s+ JTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 Z, y( v2 h) v* k! O) X
' ]( D! g1 X9 t3 l; p“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" }* x# p" M8 E' X) u
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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." + |# g! ~# N1 x' C! H R 7 W! K5 r n0 g0 D8 A( a: R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”。# Q: O4 v9 R1 i* J% N$ t% e5 `- U
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