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：' X A, ^6 u7 W4 e, O- U/ ~
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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.: D8 ~' b2 c, Z& Y
. _7 E, ~. o8 V; F& q' S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* D- u' N G' M
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. l8 {1 j, x: D* N' i8 @8 A5 }8 q. ^
% t6 M9 G* B# k& ^- S _, o5 B' X- F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。 ' O. p% ~) U( T! L) k3 b" ?6 k6 k" s0 |4 D: U
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.* s1 W S. ^! Q5 b2 f
3 t7 ]9 E- ^+ |; i5 F h! c2 O2 ^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。. R/ a( k* ~' t( Q8 q A2 ?% p0 C
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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. / N, q8 q, K. ^& j$ B( x 5 K6 z4 \& Q9 C) t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。 6 J. m- ]4 Z2 F: s' G4 a: c4 K" X& {5 P7 a7 V1 }
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 f, ~, H$ D4 ~7 \. f4 x1 X- w! O m( v( B
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。% ^1 r& i# d" E3 k$ L: V7 |
, V: z/ y1 G5 C0 KBut 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.; M. I& F v2 ^% v" w
( F) k m. b! l: g5 m; O% \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。/ T0 _% s; A6 C4 k# E
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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.( c) ?# J: W* X5 e1 ^; n/ O
$ p4 q$ g: R- Y- t3 P0 ~# K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。 ! W( `1 v3 M6 j v# H* u8 A5 r/ R1 Y* [& ~0 ~& b0 G/ S3 g5 h
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. 4 W3 I, {+ f6 g" g; l1 H$ X- j* z4 i7 z( t- z- I2 P
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。 + y6 q& ?, X3 q) Q* u : G3 \& o' g5 {0 ]: ~You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& P5 {; b1 ?; w' U' ?9 P; S
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。' x3 j4 ?$ a, E' J
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." f* u( S9 t3 S; W% s" A
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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。+ J* t1 c/ I+ P1 n% ~
% o- S7 }- K* v6 ^; ~3 bFor 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. "4 s, ^" H- ]) z Z/ d
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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。% b& N* N0 S# S* e) v6 {( c
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 G3 f/ \2 z, e) B
) R. a% R$ M7 ^+ d! F) ~* U“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ! F& K' h# i, N6 T0 R) ?% N! s0 K% t5 Y- |, B& Q
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."9 q1 N, `1 h4 |) K. f; `/ e
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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”。7 Z% E' J1 o* |9 e+ O/ ^
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