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： 8 i+ Y& D9 v3 n' _% O, p! x$ e) s ' O8 z- n; a5 G$ H8 f# R2 B生命就是小甜饼： . u/ j" }3 Q( a1 b1 {: K7 wOne 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. : d0 o3 `9 Q* d9 y ! J7 Y& B1 s7 [; Y2 Z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”。 3 h6 @- P! |( c3 M! _ ) E( c4 t, y) aIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: ^3 B2 q" F0 B; `. @, q; v' c
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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。5 c% r, R# d$ y. B$ ^
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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.# Q; c; ~! n; u6 s
# s3 w. Z8 ]8 f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。8 Y3 j* Q- ^ v
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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.. \- q# z. p! s2 E0 p+ t5 T) ~7 Q
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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。$ w2 k3 f* @/ ?6 {3 G) ~& E
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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.7 G6 Y; j1 A( P- I5 R7 z( Y
$ W4 p" ?+ ?6 U+ s" f" v8 U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- z) n2 Y& k$ e& ~6 s * E) H9 V8 _' F5 g- r& h8 t6 [! DBut 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.: p; u% `5 G4 F2 q- @
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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。' z8 ]2 N4 b3 T4 }
# c* { n' u2 z7 a7 qThe 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.4 x4 p; o# ?* ~% b: R0 y
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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。 6 m! b# Y4 F$ u1 ?/ }/ m2 f : q/ }/ @6 P( }- [4 oYou 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 B! Q6 ~3 ?% b% B4 z
, E: J6 Q" P& _6 l0 B9 d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! H( [# H. @7 P
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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.; z4 Z; J. g5 S8 y: ?; c
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 ^: u7 r6 s3 V! q- b u0 V! f( K K
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. Z3 ^5 y& M0 p: T3 J: W& Y+ d
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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。- h5 Z! ^# b! M7 P$ j. y5 b
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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. " , h7 k7 ?6 q& C$ Q* J0 g6 y( O! E* x
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。6 o! U3 I1 u. r1 o$ }/ }
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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。 ; A7 s& C) \# p % [1 T) H/ g. N0 _, D- U5 n9 sLife. 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." : }- U, E, c" |" q* X; z( D5 Q, d# R+ M3 H/ H
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”。; V3 N& |* I- d p8 t