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： : ?! @/ C2 X/ F. J. H3 ?1 p9 ]0 `( w0 T0 o' R0 x! M4 o
生命就是小甜饼： ! {0 v4 X% ^' k% |& TOne 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. & U/ v, A5 i% C# [& V! w$ X: V& i* h- j1 R p( S" y! A* @
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”。* G6 S9 T* R+ P$ v; t
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. & f! d3 M+ t0 t. L) m) }; `( C, I" Q, M- ]3 b" M% A v
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。 4 N) x% D& _: w+ H3 E$ k+ l. [) a' l 0 D) A" x7 T/ DSome 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$ r5 \. \( N6 h& c j4 b6 Z) R% W2 _& D$ { h! M2 O& 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。: p/ d/ @$ Z- I. s3 v4 v) |
: s) \0 e7 C0 KA 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.! R+ ^4 A* u3 Z G# b6 u k
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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。 E2 [/ ~) ]2 K( z
* g6 X. j7 |9 J7 EWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % [0 l- D9 c& {' h* Z 7 {% M0 h# y4 g: @; ^7 E# J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。 + t: }6 o+ z. h$ g; I$ V% T/ f 4 M5 ^: ^8 m3 u8 u( f# DBut 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. p6 W- f8 A. a, Q1 k8 y1 C4 h& _0 m! S& Y7 E
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。5 ]) a4 M l5 T+ `$ v" J5 e
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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 U4 ?# p* M" C# i* B
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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。 6 \" Q8 q" Y( o7 j0 I( v5 a q. [7 m# ^ ? `5 h9 hYou 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. 2 b% r" M# p* i- {, S) N ! o( i$ k5 g k# [- F$ X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。4 O# M+ B! T. j) ~# t1 Z
2 s$ ~! m1 G+ a# t8 }9 nYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 l, e) K& q) `' U& G, \( O4 h- U! b4 q0 q$ X6 I
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 A4 `; J6 \. @9 B0 w2 z% W; | \9 b6 ~+ ?" X5 D$ A7 o; _5 Q( L0 [
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ c$ P [+ h! c$ D4 j6 a
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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。+ r* V# y* A/ k
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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; _5 t8 {* J / a' W8 V5 w" C$ g1 S/ M2 ~+ e5 }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。* ~ ]! S) G) w2 Y2 w b+ W' t$ o
( P: I4 ^8 a" n1 MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 h1 i, _" L$ c
) b% I) @$ S' m6 T' X0 d+ |“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 5 O, i$ D# D% k% S4 e ; D+ K* y; a2 f5 gLife. 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." , h+ z, w8 n: l/ @ : [5 l8 M g H$ k/ P; z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”。 ! A8 z! |. I e5 d# b+ i1 x& z8 P% x/ L: _
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