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 ~ s2 n! M8 l9 Y$ G6 E; H ) O' o6 O$ G+ n; L生命就是小甜饼：2 D! i0 p* W; a7 }; J3 c- f
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. 1 W/ y" [" O( E; f5 J }& D- z+ ?0 t# }0 x0 j4 t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”。& }* T3 y! ~; T6 Q0 y3 t$ R8 H
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' m+ g" C) @. K, o" Y8 U$ }
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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。2 R; z4 j3 e9 l. z( x
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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.+ B, F: Y& g! E- v! N
1 J& O% \5 B( R' |& |+ e, z7 tA 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: t( s1 S
6 p' k4 E; w; r/ ZWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) Z% C2 @; w* [+ X
1 T `9 j- y; @1 ?% l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。 8 i+ L+ \ F5 j0 y ' s6 m- K! r I9 H" iBut 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. 1 a$ m$ f, Z/ ^- i* A2 z( r3 U" I' _$ w, r S
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。 3 `* w( J# X6 N: v6 {2 l! E; D- s7 `# r, C
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. 6 l8 O9 `9 t2 o( A; D; G- L/ c/ x " k9 f- W5 e$ \: O' Z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。 5 |. h* j9 K- q6 Y @ & g& _4 [# d% Z# nYou 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. & i: d5 v8 M! D$ @, w
9 E0 |& S+ s5 f/ ]4 OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% @- G, A& d: Y# P7 O# z
) Z) E- D$ j7 k4 d3 Q% i p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 O5 }4 U1 d5 \! C K3 m0 _0 s3 w4 A7 q6 THaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; r% H6 w# r, A1 U3 d8 e" j 3 y& Q* G! M( j3 E* a# j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。$ o: a7 ^( u0 [3 C2 N) h( m
$ R: x5 w7 K& QFor 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. " + P1 P- n6 K& l2 d8 O. M8 `/ K$ A1 e$ w2 m5 t! M# ]- O( o
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。; j0 d' N I7 O8 `; o: X9 `2 P
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ! x P3 ] W. v v" d2 T * p% L8 G0 p* l: u3 d3 F' 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。2 s) c5 f! p2 L* O
! @+ S1 `, a O, ]" }. s/ z. f; [# yLife. 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."( }: N6 S% V! z; _( v+ A
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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”。2 o$ y9 d' |* i9 ]