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： W; k& F( D2 K) U3 ~0 l" _; ~( v. g, _# \3 T ?
生命就是小甜饼： $ V) ~1 h- e9 t3 {/ QOne 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. . p3 ~2 ]$ k! w H4 L7 O5 U3 | ' i% p6 n0 Y/ C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”。 # ^! ^9 y u3 d. H1 ~% i4 N( B$ n2 R3 l2 o& f) Y: w" X" h5 |
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 [7 ?$ Z& |0 P2 A* U 2 P4 J5 c7 T) J: `. ~4 s$ \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 w' g1 R+ U5 k& h O6 a/ u3 c/ }
\: ^3 O- U+ H( V& eSome 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. * r a8 Z, W. {$ l 8 }9 C; Q) e8 e! `& V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。0 w4 B' d2 f' k1 `7 \
5 m4 V; U6 z; S* S7 [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.1 \0 C6 z3 M p: l* z5 @
4 q" I4 W* Q# _5 Q* }7 a7 VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., f. }' i) |5 g7 g
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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。& D5 A4 z; s8 \# j- O# U3 d8 r. E/ k
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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.; ^! G! q R3 y0 v: K# q
9 {; F0 I; |9 r: g# |* tThe 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. 4 Z! Z4 c6 x4 c% x1 G4 q6 y 0 l. R+ r7 p+ w& [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。! w8 A2 V5 K6 P
! x0 K; n* @6 WYou 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# E! ^6 W" K8 m" `) v( M4 h) l' |$ o
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。 9 `& Z' `. p" Y! q2 k. z1 K: a# `2 y3 D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. % y- ]" ~ F3 H, }) o2 v0 V. R7 V7 ~- }" y \1 j( c
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 U6 R L4 N0 z) S, Z) L* ] : q5 {/ ^7 y' q6 |0 V% ]7 l6 q3 sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( p; D5 X$ W* P* V
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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。: l0 d- w- p( ?! g
, L# E/ O: |& D8 t1 A' ~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. " 2 g% ?6 n/ Q7 t( B- Y( q+ o( ]: {
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。 # Y. e) \8 L$ [ x& L. l E C & [3 L$ ]1 O4 b# nTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 8 _; {9 Q1 D2 H% s( g0 K1 K( R; V2 J- O2 y4 X- G. E7 \8 Q
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, } W7 T6 i! k8 i
6 A8 s2 q0 y; p4 v, b, o5 XLife. 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 ]1 ]3 L1 }8 X+ J. j' y+ c0 j
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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”。 & J E& h, q7 @1 Z1 m( _4 F& k1 ~- W' O! V3 u
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