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：6 Y# u3 I0 ]0 w, V
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 k1 b( f. @1 [# m3 @. z5 yOne 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./ O3 z! b+ i& y |) G" f
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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”。 + l; f; V( y) f9 ]9 @7 O& D$ q* I/ }; C
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # `- ? O! [4 N4 B. a6 n' z" k- 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。 ( Z) v7 a8 c' T7 W+ X9 N+ u3 d4 M" V1 S Y/ h8 E" {0 P
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& k; J# K! s" t3 K* o- _2 j2 ^7 R6 A$ S o
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。: q" P2 M3 Q& T
1 q& k/ y$ P2 T0 Y. zA 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. " T* {5 Z, z- o' C ; q" U$ S* i) B. b: z8 F* ?+ `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。# d. u7 A/ a2 ^6 O
- o& Q- w+ E. g% Y. C$ AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. ?: T8 O( S4 H F
0 Y& {$ v( y$ t' ]/ ?% ^( r Q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。+ x B1 Z+ k ^4 r# D* s$ X6 k
+ {+ r ?5 Z0 ^5 ^' kBut 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. ) B0 j# i3 D2 p+ t1 `' D% m9 o ?: m, Q3 {" N" y4 E9 I8 }4 S$ Q
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。2 F) w9 j* n" L
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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.3 ^$ o/ y- r9 i+ E. k' d& Q
6 \- X" r, k* ?: b/ p; D7 {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. - i% j2 R7 @% W+ ~* x* [
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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。+ k& X% T) ~1 s8 g' |) a3 K
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , A0 [& T. B* ~& A. t# J( l1 {, I! F2 f4 ^7 ^& m
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: ~& j6 H. C6 a5 [1 }0 t) R
0 x2 S {4 g8 c( m6 h- D3 k$ o7 oHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! A$ C! s; }$ b8 G0 z( P0 l
" P9 X8 U" \% P9 J9 H7 I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。# e n; o/ J6 q) J) o; U: [
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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. " % G# T8 P0 H1 m. Q; ]; D1 M / ]7 z Q5 b, i( o1 u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。 * ^+ f- Z/ c1 s- H/ D& C ! X. F4 ^& w1 |- j: G3 xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' x# p6 z# o( }# g6 e7 U0 f& v' o) X6 q! k, f# r7 I
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 3 I6 j; g4 X* M8 N* \1 y" f7 N. N5 E* H" ?3 r, b3 e) T8 @1 H0 P5 A
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." % ?- N# ]) F% D+ Y6 j 1 d- {9 |& B7 d' R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”。# M$ |: i: Z0 g! l: P+ t