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：( K' q, Y w9 \4 ^+ }9 Q
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生命就是小甜饼： # R) g, q" P4 T, q0 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. ! C2 a: ~' h3 @8 w: K `3 t1 n/ Y! S3 {* z7 K& j" e3 y
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”。% b6 f4 l% \# r0 O
$ {3 K3 s% p1 o3 yIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + U. g' Q% a' [# j, ~7 u- f( ^+ q 1 R0 V$ |1 Y3 w" w* Q. Y- c8 b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。+ D, N# W h) o" Z5 k
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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.6 d# Z& U7 M v. a
) I9 p1 e8 B4 n4 g- [0 y* {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。 2 V$ r' x f2 x. r' L. A; x P9 R5 u: A; x4 {
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. - e2 S4 m1 A3 i9 W4 @$ B1 z1 E# x9 J3 _& b
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。 0 A- L) a' V2 M/ e5 V : a4 a: d% U. }) [/ SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 q. a9 T* s! r9 W
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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。 ) `, L" L& [. M7 G' J& }4 t2 U1 Y' p. Q" F0 ^
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.) c. k( r* F5 y
- x( o! t! F8 I+ z6 Z" o8 PThe 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 J9 b; K' ~" P. r% f. c7 ], [) b+ t* u" P) a O6 b
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。2 o5 n. k2 f; U. e+ _& o* V% O
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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. 2 y4 h. _/ z6 C; i" ]
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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。3 m' J2 m6 w+ X8 n" h, Y1 c
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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.' g: O) c7 u% A
7 H; r0 u4 S8 o I" J! ^+ b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: x: D. _- M6 e! g
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ Y) `% {- }, ?8 `0 l0 X
! ]$ K0 L: [0 @% R& n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。1 `$ Y0 M, J( s, t
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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. " 5 Y% t! Q+ S& L8 M% V# f) [) Y+ D8 j2 z8 Z* }# C: 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。 % M6 b$ s2 l; B) L: D9 V( Y! G- N2 Y9 {" O8 [! @5 S
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." q, n. l1 _9 J1 z8 B4 ^
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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。, P5 v3 h1 D+ I/ X" @
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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" n1 b+ a" Z( Y * j6 F; P: F3 o( z) [' Y, E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”。( p& S' _0 b/ r! A5 Z: _
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