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： * S7 h1 O1 I# J* l" U 3 j: B& _& w1 c* e+ W1 I( a2 G生命就是小甜饼：$ H6 T! G Q( I1 F5 y
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. ' z \# X( m. @& ?5 B5 L 8 ~) e9 Q: J: s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”。 " ]0 q$ A+ j: a4 Q , q. U% O( F5 v0 Q' f9 TIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 t7 o+ v& b/ G* u " x) m, S" E" j6 i% O% B" `& A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。 7 D4 @" p% z' E+ i1 N6 g& n4 ]9 L. _
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. ; k6 _; J0 f$ V3 M/ s6 G0 P# c0 V$ c5 p6 n3 }$ x: {* c
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。 $ B* |) O$ b V6 s' v* z) o; n+ v/ V/ V: F0 d& p2 W( l) J! s5 R3 {1 o
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.+ f& t/ o5 ]3 P% k, i
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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。 ; U) Y8 s9 g% m: J- l8 j* I" ] 9 K7 P/ B% ~% d1 a1 c M) AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. - v% ]: c3 `5 K0 R- F . v0 V7 X4 [7 s2 x 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。3 q: ]8 B5 o4 d7 D4 e/ u0 }
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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.! D3 ?" S5 q1 z0 j, J( K" t" e/ W
: k+ T9 e/ u8 H: R; E* X* d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。5 T* \, T S# K: w
" M- L, w$ o0 K! B/ p7 [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. $ z9 a+ V6 y0 \) k9 Y) A. y9 G% G 9 g' t; M( h2 i0 |- p; x* [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。) n) C& C w3 C8 h
# A/ i: _$ Q/ HYou 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. ' G1 p: I) b( n
4 b; B% g# c3 | h }6 e# `) ~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( X) L. n! H" L8 F/ D
0 J9 a! C' Z4 SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. x7 O/ g/ u( q
" L: \& \+ l5 Q4 L. j( F你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 ~/ w# M" Y8 W7 \0 [0 `3 e3 @ # |" P, n+ { j: f/ e) fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.$ x0 e: Z8 V3 v! C; U
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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。& \8 M- P% [# x) O) h. `
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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. " ! t! { @! V* p$ s- U2 ^ , n- G( u2 y' `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。& M. o# B7 ?& Q6 R6 L0 I
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ! E4 ^9 j8 z- u" B5 m9 \+ ^# { # P8 D6 ]6 e0 Y“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * K0 ~# z# e& q p/ z1 I$ V 2 f: N- b# P7 D; u7 e' PLife. 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." ! B3 j/ ]% k4 n) }1 d ; d' t3 e3 T, f6 @ H7 T, O7 D8 [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”。 e& V! k( t1 ^4 r! M
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