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： 0 a" x% r. M5 l( G- p - T1 t7 T# d* G8 L* q& r+ x生命就是小甜饼： * V1 k8 @6 @: j" K8 qOne 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.% i6 y2 |( m2 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”。 7 C; S, r& f: V1 E- J; F& Z( ]9 m- x0 p* [. T! c/ U: M
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) c( i. L5 N' i f$ \1 D* v3 P. e O
" `( P! @# s4 W- m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。 ! T" i' w. B4 b0 x. a- |: d/ Z 4 \8 n# h- }, n) t2 M) NSome 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. 0 i; D/ N8 O$ Q ! j4 T4 Q4 O5 ~, ?7 Y* j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。 6 Q' z& x' j7 f* s* v$ D% C2 Q) V' ^( `1 j: S9 \) Y7 S
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. 3 T; P1 h5 F" y9 v T# T1 P1 |" k" a. Q% W7 H0 _3 ?
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。 ) S7 p* {2 n4 M) R0 F a0 q$ @2 G c, v# `4 }( d$ KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. & {$ z8 C2 D& ~$ K5 _- q# c( E ' y* w c" b( K, i$ c- ]' H1 ]6 c4 R+ 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。" H9 J+ ], G( I# U
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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." M) w& X& H' f3 r! E
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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。 . z1 g n6 h$ V& @( Z ( T$ o3 X: d5 s: f/ bThe 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.1 z l" p& q5 I9 ~! A: l
8 P) u0 N4 m5 U7 B f1 y" D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。4 l. P) h, C& `- y* ?% N, P+ r
1 @- W9 J7 R8 F* t0 w! s0 ]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. ! Y. r8 p8 D' H3 s( Y! Q$ T. {+ l! ~
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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。 , b' W$ L( \$ f. M' o T8 S& k9 E( c, C+ a2 {# q1 M
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) m) @) k+ q9 h$ R9 `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 N: J+ n2 j; ~! N+ \- w. ]$ p& W) [& ?4 ?+ \
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。 3 Z+ O" }+ ~2 X9 D ; v% C2 U/ c1 H! Q1 p7 V0 }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. " . x4 Z0 s4 k, X5 R: D4 P% f ) a# K3 i3 q- v5 p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。4 r' e0 [; p7 C. j
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., _$ Q) {1 o$ s. o" Q! J, V
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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。 t# A0 ~: Q5 o# O, o' y5 q' \% w) N6 j! M* U& b. ~
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."' T3 o+ r1 S% b8 @$ X
3 Q& Y$ P. A' s* }3 D' [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”。 Z C) B8 {) a& N2 P& u% O# w" g
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