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： & X2 o$ S- k/ E* a9 \( v8 B2 f' {4 N- v( C
生命就是小甜饼： : U5 t8 l% y6 M+ \1 Q: h! xOne 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./ S& m b# O9 @3 ~% @0 R% `
. m+ A! [# X1 i3 ?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”。( e, ^7 k+ E7 B4 v% g
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ u6 _6 k' `' N1 w6 w5 C
6 {+ T. T5 i; ~: o! j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 P* e9 s) H1 S( j8 {. P
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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.1 D+ x' x# g4 x; X: o+ M2 k/ v
& h1 e9 C0 O) o% h [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。 & y7 ~0 m$ T2 Y( y( o5 l7 N7 }. |" h; C
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 P( y) ~2 R3 c4 f1 j: k# A # ]/ U% @, A r; ^. t9 \1 s% a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。 : r$ ?3 Q4 Z5 S7 j1 q# E& t _4 k& S- k
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 Z6 V. x2 @7 I0 u& K2 B8 u2 C: s4 J* q: Z
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。- Q6 g9 T* H7 q
% [( @: {2 y5 I# tBut 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. 3 u8 r, I3 n3 m' S* X! f; k$ w) d3 Z6 C* g; w2 o$ S
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 ^3 g! ^+ K/ h
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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.& I. I! N4 j; Y3 c7 s
: m* ]- m9 x+ y/ v4 w0 T+ h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。" C2 x6 Y3 n+ R# P
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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. . G+ g h( k! _2 g" z( ?! I2 o
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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。 ! R6 L. f# J$ C( w" {& P8 J, J9 `4 c) P, v) B9 Z
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ [; E5 A( m/ g: o! l0 B
& t3 a1 b+ o) f2 r1 |( W+ U你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: \: B! w/ {7 m( j6 a: n* b
1 E1 y5 y1 o! }3 k1 {Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ f, `% B; _3 a0 U4 J% A
+ H. }& k3 U" d, D5 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。% k9 x& _) v& T: B3 v0 g- |+ q2 C v
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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. ", U4 I; D* \ x7 _
7 x4 i) w+ j, M I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。8 W+ @7 J6 C4 r
6 y- j& b5 I) j% f' q1 HTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ B' t; h8 m9 ~
$ m) x/ t1 J: R, A“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 x1 S9 I& k+ x2 h9 p0 {8 w8 g
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Life. 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."1 m/ w; }" j4 v4 U: w
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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”。 $ M0 C r- ~6 V% O; @7 X- H! P4 A' k X$ }) c
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