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：+ M N" m$ x- i# K& G
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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. 3 {+ W. _; Y7 C 1 R) U# }' D& q' X0 P3 P' Y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”。3 K3 `7 e: y4 ^. u6 L
% |; K8 M* S3 W8 HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: G# P" Q, k6 P/ X
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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。 % b; M( s% W5 @7 w: H% }% W6 g/ ^ 9 N5 z Y4 `1 gSome 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& j. _4 o& T
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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。& [% m2 {& K: D- K' K4 q
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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. . t1 s9 k0 S& l, a4 q0 j2 b ' l- y0 K) h4 e. K: g/ y- S: n7 a& h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。& t' t; ?/ U# _- t- {8 Y" Q
3 v" y% u% I: M J, sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 ~# E# Q/ L' V
$ H6 j0 D; Z m& f- A5 \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。 9 c- U o* i7 t. J8 L. S! f) v, F/ I* f7 d% G
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.# m+ O- ` g) f3 c m
: f' R6 W! d% l$ F9 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。9 s; S) s2 c5 F& i+ L) U* H9 H
) [. |2 \5 |8 X7 l9 U* KThe 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. 2 q8 O% c! E' V 0 Y5 k% H% M" S1 X, [; P! U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。' F) i2 v. k9 m7 m( r& G( Z: S! l
* a) }" W6 e* X9 [: H( v" R- z5 bYou 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. 5 U5 |6 J( B; ^! s# K5 s0 y
7 H, k& X' Z9 V* {) 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。2 F) {4 P @7 k5 y: D
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! G0 U* L1 D1 B+ r. k4 B
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. : z2 f. c- g/ x1 u. |8 I6 p7 C, |( D6 r9 X- G1 Z
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。( R: n9 t" R+ n) j# _6 Q
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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. " + H' R9 _1 q4 d" B 2 F6 @6 n# E, E. d8 ^1 u; U, P* N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。" h; {7 H$ t/ I% Z
3 o! n7 V( H- U" @" kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." ^# i; \: O1 P: N
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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。 ! f3 M$ Z. i. {$ s 0 k) k9 o8 V5 G" BLife. 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." 5 Y( Q) R/ A y: J1 ]8 M' S$ `/ y8 e( f8 c. d, m) _$ I# [# w7 |7 J
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”。9 T: k" \8 c1 E& |
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