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：8 f( ~, P, A2 E5 E
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生命就是小甜饼： 9 D3 T" A# ^) G1 s0 d! 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. , G& R0 y! S- A0 ^: w/ \ # h+ l& _& l7 k0 |) f6 ~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”。) G% J/ T' \) ], X e/ }2 K7 y
. M; `8 P. l [6 y: V) ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 E1 z4 q. i4 d* w2 w5 k8 I
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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。 ' [" o; S6 n8 i; k5 r- I( b# p; `/ B7 q
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.6 T( e5 d) `. q) U
% ^9 _7 }4 I/ j. o* A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。 , x$ c7 n, ~$ F1 t" z5 r# _( c! G2 I' {0 |
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.$ ?. I2 p$ U% v, ^
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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。 \' [! K$ a/ ~& s, i
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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. + x5 y0 H2 W3 ]( ~! {: F D5 q! g% _6 X: ^
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。. y# L2 D3 @' p( F, N( J
4 V. f* f3 s) |; b* ?; EBut 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. ; r3 V6 m7 N; y' s2 n/ Z! L/ H5 B
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。& n5 U4 O4 _" |1 e' g$ ` F
& {3 Z( c3 N4 t- F1 W! |( `: eThe 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.. ^5 T2 m, ^, X& T, Q' m
* B' \6 _0 v# N6 l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。/ a8 U" P V6 [: d3 T. d' K
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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. - U& h8 J1 k6 S8 ^& z
; U E! O; ]0 t. U6 K/ `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., }. _! X* {/ j' [
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( }0 }# b3 m- W8 M+ v8 r$ l) U/ h2 e' B$ n( Y
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! G0 K( }( E! C# l$ {2 q# C ' P( M2 o( c& j+ A3 _( [4 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。 7 @0 K6 q B( q' D/ n1 l & _. ]6 _2 K7 h S0 nFor 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. "7 P1 A3 v+ M1 i
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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。 3 u6 q. p3 R& g7 i9 s* v5 ~8 c4 s6 X* M2 `- l9 v
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; ?7 M: E3 I6 K# Y" Z
! ~0 k& _1 m) |1 F1 s- t& |“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ) A$ Y. m% C. h6 ?& e8 L7 ^2 T; p8 m4 N8 w8 v* D) d) `% Z
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."' [2 Y Z/ e0 O7 _
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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”。+ ^" E3 a8 [6 z! V( f
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