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：, Y% {! f8 f& r* y! f9 F2 I: q6 S
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生命就是小甜饼： $ V& Y3 d9 y7 V- g/ Y3 xOne 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. . B u* D0 q4 [: H5 T8 O% S% P; u$ H. ~3 K/ n. E& [# ~
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”。) ^7 l! W+ v, b
. N& H4 c' m: X2 s4 [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # k, C1 q, w* y( R$ \ & s1 d! ^% |: B! ~' C. L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。* X# @& g/ ?, L8 H* J; p
5 G4 m1 |$ \5 GSome 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. 7 @5 E/ f: _8 _" F. S: F+ d: [0 d4 E+ `
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 {- @0 g7 o& [+ Z1 z) z1 |6 l" C8 Y9 Y2 e
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.. R6 R" y% `9 [0 c9 S# i5 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。/ R6 x' H% c/ T5 a
0 ^' M& b k' Z0 ?$ bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! z' H! Q3 Y. k5 I
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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。& h/ c* [+ X& @5 C% I1 `/ U% `
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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.# o5 Z9 B' ?- q
8 P, G+ @3 i% I2 u B/ Z! UThe 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.% {+ t) H/ B/ B4 g" m- G! d/ Q
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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。 0 n) A8 X' J3 v ) a" g# J8 }9 ?5 ^1 \* |' D0 _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. 8 L9 U, a c, e& H1 q5 p - X1 C4 f* T5 [4 r ?) |2 f( h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。/ L9 D: g+ V4 r }0 K1 R
, u! s5 x: D4 m1 c& S9 lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: c5 q2 e9 r+ s+ R' g
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ b y0 n4 ^2 K9 c; ]1 P- L( {/ m# _: j2 N r; q
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " v' u( w* ?( n$ C+ v & G2 V: F5 U. W! m; M/ r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。 ; I4 r3 c/ C' }4 @6 k6 K% e/ o! Y! t0 e2 D4 M) q
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. "+ r6 J {# U) b! j1 @7 I
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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。. ]( N0 _) P( r. g, f; d
* A; c% O+ v& H: k7 o) xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ e! Y% A# L- l. G8 C$ i
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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。 ( j! S: V1 v. [$ S, K! {9 f; G5 k9 f* S5 Q+ @% N: v
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." * g. F, ~! N$ q8 C7 | 2 m" c% I7 d: L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”。# e! x- |: }$ M* }5 E