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：+ h% j& ]: j. N4 M! u
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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.7 I9 b" m" P* o. M D0 Q' V
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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”。# N/ V% k# ]% s# f4 f8 L& W! q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % X! H8 ^9 q0 f( n$ r: l' z" R
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。 8 a: U G7 q2 O( I% c' V+ L a3 \ # u2 z& M+ `. J" z4 _4 rSome 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. 0 ~* {3 |! }% C# D! ~3 `& v/ y' j, ^1 t+ B' h' p
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。 . a% e: Q* W8 U# G9 t, _; v [ g. F) x* i) x
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. 7 ]4 x3 Y% _+ x' C5 q: m- e+ O8 T( B5 V( x/ ~+ ]
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。8 F+ z+ ?# m( `* I1 P6 z. N
% f& I" Y% `! Y$ S9 x% pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. I0 M$ m# w- L6 l& f0 S
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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。/ \7 s$ y3 y, m% v3 C
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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.& T; K* H6 Z4 G9 ~9 T; N# J% z
# ]4 b; {) l! G3 P1 y' L7 i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。 * L5 V# N' o1 v& Y; c" [5 [% [" n" |' r
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. 7 v* H9 g; K" B* S& @8 K G: w) p ) b) {+ o- R8 ~8 B! F; k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。 D, X$ l2 o A/ L$ 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. ' V" l7 Q) \( i6 [2 g2 ?
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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。% N) F) {# i0 S G
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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.# M, M3 r; d& M4 O4 Q" P
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% m7 d" ]& k: K9 T5 pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & p8 k% D$ L$ l! ]/ X3 n2 W+ K! ~7 C. u' X& s0 u
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。 ' K* G7 [5 O; ]6 M O: [5 a( G
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. "9 x5 u! m4 F% q+ B9 v) m3 ~
" a9 ]: F. L# `- T+ l% X3 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。1 n; V, t! b! C: q: l
4 U# e0 g; i/ j9 I c! {Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! g" s9 }$ Z8 C& f
/ A- a6 L. a. i2 A% V9 Z! `3 c& V; h“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 o7 o! @- R Z- E4 z3 J1 }0 w+ A# H+ J6 f8 g
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.". D0 r) `! m! E- Q* |
, q' q6 y- u2 G, o. c/ 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”。+ Y. z$ f4 S4 Z
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