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：* V* n% ?6 N7 _6 z7 g5 ]% t% F
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生命就是小甜饼：7 s& k* w8 e+ M$ K" Q/ _9 K# w( U
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.8 p" j2 s* D* l/ m% L q- v
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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”。 V+ e w0 l8 q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , l L4 x+ N" q" L' h" K( U5 X ' }5 G7 x/ O% k8 B' H$ p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。! y0 I0 `( Z* M! Y
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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.& k9 U/ o8 p: j' Z, B# m" a( }$ q
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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。; P" ~2 ^, I q! x& S
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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.4 ^' @) p5 l& G- i" I! C
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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。! t/ I, y6 @4 g1 @. b. W- L) o
0 Z, `9 o0 H# V" A; M3 [, A8 \+ gWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 Z+ h. {% G$ O" l+ N
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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。/ {, Y6 u5 f& z5 Q+ ~! H
; Y6 R" e6 C5 F3 FBut 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. + `7 n# p" v5 H$ Y) b, p* U; q0 K1 j! a" D$ w. d) u8 q% S+ K
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。 9 V6 Z+ F: x* H! j3 r) |; {) A+ I3 S ( r- C$ n: k+ d. MThe 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." @, K3 b- i4 \# y1 O
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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。 ' W3 D5 P/ o8 g! K) G! W: r6 [$ d2 t; L2 w$ O
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. , o. L( K: V+ P5 {$ \1 B- e" ?6 o " W1 J u3 p+ k ^1 z3 |( m+ ?! G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。 . ^* z4 e4 h' T1 A, f- v9 P" n& R% D: Z o0 X
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( n/ ^% ^5 [9 ^5 _4 b5 V1 H - |* J* C3 W0 ^你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* d# j6 {5 b. c
& c3 C2 A/ ], RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 0 a/ v, X* }9 f. a& r" v( j 2 x+ `0 R. @5 W4 L# o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。# @$ b3 s! ? H5 x) ]# K% N
4 O* f) O7 \& q8 oFor 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. " . p/ A7 ^" g! d9 J: O; S; B6 {; J ^1 G6 F6 _0 Z. X' E
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。 : S% C4 O5 k! z0 }! @. X5 o- T ' X, h" V: {, T" PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 0 g) T( @5 u7 Z* g5 @8 ^3 g- U ; _8 q H& J6 C5 I1 O' }5 Y) X“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% W) T5 Z! z. `; Y0 e. F- k
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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."+ e: _' B) s" A2 z
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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”。 - P4 Q J* _) M" O I7 l5 y! T. y7 m5 H+ o7 j9 n
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