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： ) b/ v7 y3 C8 O# A 8 G# e% b- z9 W2 q- a' f生命就是小甜饼：% o- c# I' G. d8 j
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.; F9 e& c0 Y# F4 {0 b7 M& k9 u5 i
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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”。 3 y5 `: `' p: h - |, m& k. L0 c4 o) FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # X1 [4 i* ] U4 o1 `0 F1 Y" k+ A
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。8 L8 m% f( T7 W6 j
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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.' g0 y2 ^" S6 f
9 P9 f# R, e3 u WA 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. T$ ?$ S! X! x- T4 U1 h8 n ; |+ i4 ^: v1 N. ]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。# I' K, {+ G. G
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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.: F5 f+ E8 o3 \- I5 I! }" k
$ G) m4 u# W- W0 [1 m Q/ k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。 9 s, W3 G' B8 ^5 a" `* }- {% {: G) P* F: S- V6 m& Z
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.6 Z4 L" x. T3 H4 H0 d; @9 \
, h: Z. q5 Y6 ]* `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。 6 k; n' X3 j, G9 c# c( k R( K: z3 ~ s5 ^- H% F* D
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.9 j0 Y3 L; l: @8 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。+ q1 n ]( o) \# J% V' K3 F2 {; v" R
6 v* Y0 z0 ]; q0 b$ 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. * A# C: q% C- A2 p& J- a$ d9 U! m5 j
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。 2 Y% z( l; Z/ |1 T0 k7 O/ j4 d0 q+ }2 ~) M5 L
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ Y" v0 Q3 H3 P" h4 l5 P: V5 o: ?6 z6 J" n; p
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' C' C0 F7 G( S; N) Z2 N" s7 s3 a/ V% r0 ^5 `% n7 O# \- k$ U8 G
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - F$ ^; L S6 o9 Y 6 D: i4 J4 z$ [3 x0 B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。 / P% N- g) |% d3 V3 }6 C& V& V/ E: _
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. " % T, Q0 P {( @, c& D # K/ l$ G$ c- \2 A& s8 `, _4 d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。* \' i8 c6 E: s
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. : o! q$ z& z8 E7 `; k- c4 O4 o/ p/ P4 m: M! M- W
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ! h o8 m" N' n; U2 C3 t: ^* I9 ]
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."8 X7 Q& q* n# p" U
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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”。" x6 O3 ~0 T: L* ^8 e! V
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