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 d( I' h/ z; D
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生命就是小甜饼： 8 ^: T+ q, F0 _+ g/ O1 [$ x, KOne 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. % ~5 s) E+ C1 S5 T & S/ r' T2 f% D# V0 u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”。2 M9 K! {! p, ?
# v6 \4 n+ k6 r+ T4 | HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% G) t8 X7 n3 L$ q. B- j# S6 W1 K5 K
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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。& `3 f x/ n$ f7 Y0 C6 B* d0 N% h1 @
% H, O4 w# B; V4 G$ m3 ]; l' 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. , d/ Z& b! K& I0 n- { - H8 H$ U8 [! B. H; a' V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。 4 h+ h& [' Z5 W) Q7 O9 \6 s* h& c/ \9 b0 N" s4 d w6 y
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. 1 |) P4 J4 X' H5 a2 y8 F9 j9 Y- g$ p9 R9 d% k. y
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 q2 r. ?" X' x$ E1 a
+ J. ^ s7 u0 XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # k! p9 @; m9 E8 F4 k; c: B( F% T5 A# s& m' P7 M
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。 5 G6 U7 z/ n6 C1 a$ ~% K; l % g) J/ B# R: F4 l% p+ H& ~' |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. 4 x# }9 R- z' j8 Y8 {9 v4 R2 L/ H c6 ?, V/ d
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。 5 d& Q3 N+ j) f4 U2 y `* V1 m' N8 ^, e& Q1 Y8 K0 w: v& w
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.) e( a. h- I3 ~- G
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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。 - |3 U4 `: a4 s- R: k2 {* G+ n% B- A5 v3 X. _
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. , S+ J8 r: l( G' A# Y; i( L 7 [, t* y5 S* j0 Z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。" j: l0 S% j9 k% {. e
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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.# W6 D8 C ]9 C$ O. z5 R5 ^$ Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# @5 y6 X8 Y5 T
$ t% z E! z' y' q% a$ dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & S% u1 u6 W: D * J' n) }9 u: q6 ?# P' Z: A; s; U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。 . e4 E2 ~5 Y# C. H: h0 d o: g p
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. "7 w% ?% D$ l, H, S1 A8 F
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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。" x$ Z: S4 _0 C! G7 [' I0 ?" n; H
+ R2 [' f, j) T+ ]0 |9 P4 ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ b1 [1 }# B2 L: y& c/ \5 ~) d
/ Z# t4 z' o- [$ V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 5 m( L) I! q7 m+ E6 c1 j* O) U" G s! |! F1 Z6 P( j- t9 I/ i
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."5 p: l/ _1 r- 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”。6 ?, F$ h$ x" A# A+ v1 `: X; @" J3 X