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：) F0 ^# f4 o" s/ Q, T
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生命就是小甜饼：, j& q& T3 q' I/ W7 r
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.( p% {, w/ C, q; h
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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”。; G2 B7 ~2 I: R/ C8 b
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 G% x8 e/ G8 I" ^
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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。 $ Q2 E+ w) c3 X/ d1 A+ A5 O7 c: c: Q$ P, K* E
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.! |' ~, i+ t; {
! ?! _( X( @# z3 G3 i& 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。 7 c* V9 q4 J* _; S, x: a- x4 A5 @) T; M" p- a' \. S
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.- G1 o* R! g" T: [& M1 @9 m3 L
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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。7 W3 {* j i( K1 Y
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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. " @4 s9 g% Y! A0 T# y& o( G8 t; s# y, C: [
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。 ! U8 g6 O% t, z( p7 w) ] 9 E/ k/ }) D, h! r* [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. 9 P( a# Z9 D2 V, K0 ~ ( s. \ v$ P. X! Y! u" r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。 ; @+ m: c n3 _. n) D 4 U9 `6 [6 N- A, a4 qThe 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./ ]! O, ~( x# b% m" K/ L# t+ w% u
& S) o& ?0 f; C4 Q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。3 l8 R0 m1 {- J. G- ^5 W) E
6 R$ e. k% e) v; n7 G5 b; tYou 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. * r# z# r$ ?8 _( t" o- L( S- e; Q" S3 d# t! P ]$ [2 y l3 }$ J
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。 $ I3 y$ A! |, W5 R# H" M( _ |! J3 a 0 I' m a7 N0 BYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% ^! a7 C4 r3 \, n0 {8 w* J
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 ?+ o0 u; J; [: t) X+ L" h2 s: ` 5 m' W3 ?* V! T+ I+ cHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 Z7 J% }/ s$ |9 [8 P+ I0 q . p7 \: [2 a* s7 z8 ^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。; G- P0 H3 y. R# N x2 g f
3 V! b" s6 M' g0 yFor 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. " 1 ^7 U4 m0 E! _$ ^- |4 Y! u/ `9 b" }: e0 ]/ |. ?
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。 - T b) b( t$ ]) h& G1 O- \5 T9 c3 C! k9 h4 Y; n
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- B- P# Q" [) w0 a
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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。 + C. c4 R3 j. F h7 a0 C / d& R/ c `3 {- fLife. 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." , s1 R, Q$ i2 n* F: d$ o" @$ z$ ]0 B9 R: ?. K
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”。% @4 z( z, T i