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：) u8 K, D9 k* t3 I/ ]
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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. 9 g5 o' W; J+ U2 N1 z 2 r* m% U) A: q8 H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”。 ; A+ S+ b1 X/ N& R& e$ ]. J* m& e9 K + s7 z1 U: R0 @ J) R# RIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; c- u1 D! n. w- j5 N
% t6 A/ f2 e# w. Q& n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。 6 D# {1 ]0 F' k- s' Q! q, A8 U% V; A3 h0 g m
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.: |" P( ]' W& I2 M; P0 C% W
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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。) _: Q6 H$ W4 P. } a8 c4 e0 ?2 V
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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. ! |' W, j1 h( \- I& X. e& [+ H, H7 O5 J5 Z6 w
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。" V& q6 ~3 Z# h! S3 _* `9 r" ^
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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. ! N7 W1 ?( E! _" ` ) F8 o8 T- r8 ~# }/ C0 r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。 \& A: k) q& z( s- N1 M) m 9 a/ b- y* f$ X lBut 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.' ~, z- }5 h8 K0 M) v# K9 e
5 V, u& C$ |( B! C9 G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。/ |0 y# h7 n; @
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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. . z6 {" r% G9 ^+ ] , k4 E, M k a8 z g, C/ \+ [. S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。/ I6 p/ c0 |+ i# G4 P1 a/ W+ Z
6 j" z! r0 _' RYou 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. $ k& N- u7 k4 V4 Y2 i K8 V
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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。 ( X# E0 @+ j' }1 d1 c/ X' X5 o" b$ B
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' A9 {5 p7 ^- g# [2 f
- B# W) L) T7 d+ I! k% M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . Q% U9 V' k% g* R0 _ 2 H& i5 H- }- }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& t5 D9 N- I( S% _) |& m ~
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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。6 }& v) z- a; S
! A9 W) ~9 D; `* nFor 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. "" x" G8 _8 i! F3 _8 N* O
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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。0 n6 P* m: s9 J4 w7 o$ x) }/ R
, {8 \/ E6 t {3 W$ yTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." V$ `* ]! S5 n/ k
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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。 5 k: w7 K. D, g3 U4 L# J2 z5 I3 q/ g( F; S9 ^ D4 P9 U8 ^
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." ; U# B0 O* @ ?/ L* [) Q( a : V# \) l. l1 `* A$ h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”。 $ M: k( |) C, B5 Q7 u) x9 ?' u) G/ r, D+ L. {2 s
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