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： ! m3 M: ^8 W* g! e( G9 p c3 K6 a: z
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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. K" _$ `% ^5 L ) e$ A7 s3 Z' m' e |* C( _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”。4 _# Y: D/ b6 X+ x3 g
" k6 x& |/ X% I0 l8 C$ GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 t9 g, g, E- R& }2 _0 X
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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。 ! H9 F) t: M) m4 `% x" V6 z; r. S" U; \; U4 r1 [) t8 g
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. 4 Q- O/ [8 W5 D2 c B6 P" [ | 5 b, D1 ? L1 G, |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。' F$ {4 F* F. ~; C
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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. 5 `, c4 Z5 g8 H : K) S/ g5 L' K, R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。 + k G: t5 w! m6 z2 X 9 k+ D% R/ W1 ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 0 u& o7 T* A9 T% k$ B8 w2 k0 z + _0 N8 n4 Z3 M5 n/ T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。" K( |4 Y- V& X0 _$ E8 R
! v+ q: t/ _/ s( Z* v( s+ N( X1 ]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. * P/ |: R% Z B- w8 _/ c 1 {2 X9 J+ x3 {' E3 z( v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。 ! d- v4 T2 U6 h( Y: y. j( |& M& L3 J, T$ I" }
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. ) o6 d, h$ V: M; F0 B$ c8 d4 M% U% x2 R! G; [, `
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。 7 g( X3 \9 }! m$ {% Y1 g: g3 I% k# {8 b+ Z( o
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. d6 l4 z+ v) F \
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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。$ ~2 `$ r9 n3 f; Q% f7 w& ~4 t
0 c3 c& `6 ~3 G, }( k. qYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. k% }5 K) p! |& r5 a- |* T3 d% j; s1 z$ X
3 f9 z7 w! T" h$ j' v; u; C, x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) H6 w1 B) p; z ^
' {; F! M9 r+ h7 I; @ F) v3 CHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ e. a, V2 F' y) Q5 {$ `
, W0 }) f I+ H2 {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。 2 W8 d" ~% V) \1 l2 _7 K 1 T7 j6 d& `* l6 B( 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. ", L: ^$ [5 b9 ^: H5 _5 i# E
) I( p4 w6 _% Z9 E% d7 d- J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。 6 t2 {0 j" ^( x' O * m# }5 x( `9 F* Z7 b' ^* ?0 e1 PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* z# N/ B1 m( V0 h0 g) h' c/ p4 M
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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。 4 L: P5 T3 w) ~7 o0 e ! V+ K1 p, x& F, BLife. 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."( W2 A8 _1 }4 |
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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”。 ( z* v7 T1 s- e) h! M7 c; s/ H0 K) M* B A; X0 ?
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