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：7 F% ]! n% j2 w$ w. v( q
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生命就是小甜饼： 5 M. p$ @: x {. F& i" Y# v+ hOne 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. $ B5 g* C. H5 ]: b% I" K3 f( v9 ?% a: A/ y+ r W
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”。 5 Q1 C% @- d9 C5 }. m/ R9 T# {! M8 t( i! _- C
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# h3 v- j+ @* e; I- ~+ l
8 Y, Q3 d A5 _8 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。2 U4 d; |3 M6 v9 i; Q2 b1 x
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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.( N' U8 r% |/ G
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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。) g1 W) M5 k5 Q5 S9 Y
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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.4 P ]# ^( ^( Z- H k! ?5 A$ o' ^
& z! p) w% I, _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 I! q. t* {: r3 n1 k4 \# O8 {# N; M q
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ D1 O" H: [, m" i. F# i
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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。 * u% i) B: p" {/ w& M3 v3 C5 G" \( t3 `. G* W
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./ j7 T. p6 L! j8 D
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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 l/ Y# \/ E9 ?
7 l3 B* R/ E) ~+ w0 ]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.% x/ i5 k$ z# E/ h0 D+ A
D9 Q" N6 ~4 U/ K# W3 u4 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。: G( g/ b8 ?; _! R3 _3 Y
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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. " H- Z8 E5 e: X0 D- c c" ?) U
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。) d1 o6 x( y$ c. n! Y( {
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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.% x3 g! \# s* B$ I: W
9 G d3 O# M+ _) w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 p4 V- F+ F* b3 ~" p+ B- G7 a, R" I( T
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - A1 K9 Z* F5 {$ R 5 |8 j0 d) }5 t% T* \ g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。, M' q& U- ]2 f) d
G1 \- R g0 M/ t. @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. " ; Z7 t& v0 y2 Z) ]3 O 8 {4 Y0 l, a9 `" ~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。. x ?) ~, f$ _7 o& x" ~' c
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* R9 D0 q* u2 g1 l# G) P2 q
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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。 ; K3 F- V; z" f1 J" ^ R . B2 p& w+ q" v: z t% ELife. 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." & H: E& v$ B, c8 @$ R* a* { / s, X: u# l; }9 y" g. \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”。 / H* h3 g3 d/ v- x) ] P- W& J; F! u7 w3 U* z1 G7 x
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