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： 8 f+ A Y9 h' n, G; o6 D4 v$ j( i/ m: l7 s/ z' R
生命就是小甜饼： : T# ^- E2 t1 Z- P6 pOne 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.5 ]' f- C$ j6 g" R# U
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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”。 ; x; |! H( f* N# ]! | 1 t0 G, q& n/ @% |If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ ~: G+ i# k& H7 o, U2 G! s9 j4 t3 u, ]5 @$ ~9 X8 t
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。& f2 t/ c9 R- J/ r. R) K: F
# q; ?/ D. t8 e# v$ u- KSome 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.) o# J4 I# v f. w- w0 B! g1 e: X
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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。 , \8 G- F' s0 }& \, E, x 8 D* N7 j8 n- J6 i9 MA 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. ! y4 r$ ?) U& w' T+ e7 `, V# f4 W . ^& i0 |! R- f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。 9 f6 a7 E& Q. f% y- A3 j/ y, N" B L* t' x" C) T" B: R7 U- Z
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." P- d2 d A# I! z% O* F
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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。' n `" _/ b' a( m& d% I' J
4 Z$ T, f+ b( `: g0 a4 X% k9 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. & q' r% A5 g" @; @. z, K 2 E$ p( S6 Z6 @' m0 b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 S o. b$ D9 q# k i 7 o! a* D" a) O6 YThe 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.: u& `1 J# `5 J
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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。. l3 b p6 Q: o5 T5 y5 ]9 |& M
7 c$ V: l8 o+ M" D& l# R' _! AYou 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. ! O/ W! ]4 _: m% c. q
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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。( r* V1 y# m8 ]+ [
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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.1 l* Q, s5 e9 v6 v* s$ c
: e' R4 | w' ~8 H' N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# i' ~, u5 _2 P4 M# P. l2 B5 D
! \- s5 T1 P* \Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 k1 Z T" y, Y, A
' q) S8 y; m9 e; d3 K5 c6 ]! }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。. F m9 Y2 M+ G1 r
* _1 ^+ f) d2 @9 i$ f f+ P) {4 RFor 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. ") P3 |* k3 B0 x
) y4 i$ H: B# t& \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。4 ^* \; L) @/ F( }2 M- i' I
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 O* a: T/ }2 I V+ ?. k1 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。 7 {5 G* R3 K* W! g/ p- o $ I- K% l, ^" Z5 o4 f E. D: cLife. 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." * A- n$ b3 F1 ? & m$ X, z# K. c+ l2 i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”。% O' |1 p8 ?0 |$ M1 [% A+ A# ~' s