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： 5 ?* s* {2 A+ t2 D x; w2 \5 }. U, v1 ^& X; H8 h5 v
生命就是小甜饼： ( a# y0 j3 d7 p8 [6 J1 X! l' O' a. FOne 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, J( l7 T+ ~8 c% B% d( |/ f# _2 q0 l
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”。* f) @( R! Z4 A2 S; i6 f2 O0 A
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% u, B; E0 c( V) ], q
6 K7 z" v0 y! \* b2 P 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。 7 L- h% G2 b, S! K; n$ o/ T; m0 Y- Q 4 N% Q6 t7 M8 @( M3 H' _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.( u1 z O' e' {5 d# t
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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。 & e( K, x& \( e$ x4 v. b" @2 a8 X& ^$ `3 ]$ B
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 }5 s. J6 g- T9 P6 f; C5 Z% w* N6 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。 - f, u6 ^3 s9 w1 _2 c/ }+ n% ` ( F0 R5 J% @' t: L9 V* BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + J# U7 c' _5 K: r( {- C: ^- k& |' c, i% t9 N( S' C
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。 % F( h8 q: \, ? ) l" p2 N2 R6 H" O0 s3 vBut 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. . ^6 J+ s) a1 ?1 L9 ?# i) \. w8 d8 r- m* q$ W4 ~
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。$ R7 W8 e; [! F8 q
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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. 8 G" E9 Q- O7 W* f% p; B & \8 w4 z5 \0 |, H: \, \$ I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。 8 e% j- z/ f9 A, L) F4 k, L9 p" W' p$ {' @
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. % h* c! p! d3 X" ]9 V1 N) y7 _
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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。 , m+ t$ s+ J- s* ~9 Z8 s/ y% d% b, F
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' K- N M; g* M
! K, h! s& S, ]( P' m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 z0 I p; M' w1 y; A( u6 i 6 R3 M. w# _# ]9 C% dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - _/ X0 [, R9 u6 h3 d. r2 s5 @1 o+ k3 `" O1 b8 w) H3 D
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。 1 x$ N9 b0 L" w; a/ z+ @, ~+ k: Q8 i& E
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. "9 z. M& |$ N3 _" b l& F% x
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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。 ) O, ~0 D' d% Y, q- Q- D' g+ a; V! R, D5 p
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " x' J9 @5 X+ ^. q8 p+ `, c, ^! N ?' w K3 j* U9 R
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 w" G O- K, P8 j , P$ P- G# _+ mLife. 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." # j& H9 ^1 o' v0 X f" }$ ~& O# o( _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”。. Q/ G/ N( v+ N [' x: P+ U1 d
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