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：+ g, B' b! i, ]
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One 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. - k8 S( `- P. @$ z V* J- u) c" g 2 b- f. ?3 X K: }; n1 ?' K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”。 ( C) f. z# d/ g2 u f7 O% p) p& { $ f3 P9 t$ p! D$ B2 KIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; |9 S2 b9 N+ g) n9 h9 `. b& `! U: d! |$ H0 P
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。/ [, r$ ?+ M% s8 z
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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.5 j# `" ^( W2 I' F3 n7 [. s" J" u
# w' {5 X, w6 }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。 ' T( ?! f! a9 E, P* M. C" |) u5 t3 M [, z/ V, v/ Y# Q0 T
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. $ F' j. V! M- \" u( i; w ) d) z& ` u1 y8 V1 g' p! K3 o& |$ I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。 1 ^0 b* w! j; K9 ~" E8 u( R3 }+ V5 g" E) J- ~# {, t( \
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 5 K% @/ K1 n( F1 p3 b9 j* n1 G" X) }4 h$ u& v5 W# ]* @- S7 l; K
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。 $ v7 U, _% S2 L/ c; U0 @ Z% L. m; M8 n: Y% ~( pBut 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.5 i3 ]$ @( }9 s# \2 y( c, P- E5 X3 ?
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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。 . k# g- e& ?, h& u/ J9 L2 l! v* \( T
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." K: N9 D) y4 p% k( o
q$ L1 B& ]: f1 k0 L) K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。 . O1 n$ _% M9 g$ V5 W- b7 d5 u1 |$ ?; `5 t/ K i- n1 w8 m9 v
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. . Z' h$ T: R+ ]2 i1 Z6 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。4 \4 B8 M) h2 s# r n' [& x
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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.+ W& z7 R5 X9 F: j* a8 j
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." i' t$ O" r' y0 D* h
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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。 4 D- c2 B$ w. n" A `. w; m9 y% m; C2 `5 q8 H2 aFor 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. " , f1 r3 y9 m) T, N9 ?/ ? G/ n, V6 k+ U r6 H* ], O' B" Y( h
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。 . {' R; V5 [2 q8 B1 h - n' l- |& Q) S9 l- _7 uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 D4 j2 _/ Q2 E1 n- N4 J9 | % x" g9 {2 @. _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 Z/ X! z; g O4 V, D+ N5 [
/ z; @9 m J+ D* r6 d- k6 ALife. 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." ! P/ v" y+ w2 b U2 `, |% w 6 Y# O% {/ }6 k: W! u. b3 u5 _# Z. u/ q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”。& W% D0 z" h' u
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