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： " y4 g' t, [0 r4 E/ D% L7 } $ t |5 z& N+ j; c, j I0 l' F生命就是小甜饼： $ }5 F/ O0 ^7 a7 vOne 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.7 h3 G6 M9 }: h' d4 P
3 G/ S6 a1 y' C9 P2 H. o$ k" uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 x( T" w' x0 X; h- t$ p' i0 A5 V
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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。 3 A( ^8 I1 S1 N% W/ K! ]3 M0 G# @. _
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. : j$ P0 S; ?7 Y. ~5 `! S 8 z, @# E8 `: P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 C. X" d. C2 T+ X9 ~& G. D/ {
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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.& q7 d. x( U q. Z# 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。2 z3 x; B& N4 b- d( }* K( r
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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. + W4 E+ x6 H8 g; \- i% x- ^8 ~3 d9 {/ C1 C5 N t5 p( ?
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。 & g* C! C+ t* P 5 T9 S/ `1 L1 _, q# d6 _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. + l# y+ W" F; A, i7 w+ V* f" L1 W7 H- ^" D4 M8 \8 Y5 P
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。$ s! @& [$ T9 _: y% @
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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. 0 W0 ~& ~; }0 X/ S7 m4 | 2 r: ?+ r! U( K. t% m& V0 v# F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。 [8 r# Z5 l8 }( I. S * @ a# z7 j3 \' |) ZYou 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. + e$ ?, H1 F" m- A: [" D
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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。 7 C; v$ k! U/ M9 U / B7 t1 i0 C8 R$ PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 z$ U; }" K" l
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * C# Y3 M0 {7 k. B; |$ ]% t9 V7 g# x* Y b# U
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." g( s! ?: `9 ~6 v/ O: y( q
4 |# b- E) m+ c, E' a0 X! T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。 2 f, `5 r' k* r' \8 v$ @ 4 m8 ?+ ~, _' O; N7 {' fFor 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. "$ p* a- g' h: x" y) B' t2 U
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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。 # q" ?; Q! q" q 7 c- b3 {; F; |. g' W2 pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." @# o w9 w/ D
4 n4 S9 V/ O( [“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 9 N) z! C' {& z- R 6 t/ r6 O" P. i, M/ m0 v2 q2 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." 0 i. l, A8 @* \6 m% _3 F8 n) h' W$ t/ A( Y
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”。 ' S7 Z0 e. i! B4 |) i$ [& |; A1 M$ j7 D" R( k2 z% o2 j% a& C
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