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：) Z8 w" C/ C6 q# o5 P2 ]7 D
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 P# k2 ? |) q1 R" U- L: z+ BOne 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. 9 g4 [" M! ^$ F# ]6 K1 B7 ?0 {# D$ c l3 A; Q. [. ^1 ?" [
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”。3 V3 e) r+ `' d( b
% l" o% N2 N2 S/ C4 MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 Z+ ?+ i6 I. a7 d; h+ b
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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。5 h4 S: r1 n" t/ g/ c6 ^) Q5 K/ l
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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. , W6 a, ?* D' v: P- A7 Z3 a+ C& B% c _/ H- k* d6 X
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。 ; Y8 e) O) k$ q1 ]+ y9 F ; m O5 W2 g/ M2 E, 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. $ Y; F5 O& c2 Q7 L' x5 t9 }% [- 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。/ _7 G3 v5 F0 C% R
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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./ M' j/ G5 q! S
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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。+ S3 u% _/ q1 e$ u, o% } O! V
1 a5 Q3 L( w! K( _4 [: 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. - C- U9 R7 }8 |' |/ z1 Q& U, {8 ~2 K8 q4 k
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。 4 r& w, Y8 P6 ~' q0 X o . U: w8 o! ]6 m2 \6 ZThe 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.2 g+ ^8 W1 C, k
4 C: G' o& B; Y% @4 G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。 - R) V# B* z% o6 c! M # C: ?- F A( m$ M2 K, 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. $ K- ], c; A' J; n- I3 C8 ], Y: ~5 O. p
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。 ' c) n9 q' n" i 0 n+ _( A; {) O1 `) K4 J1 Y& N' K% zYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* \! C, @& R. W: C
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 X4 g* i* Q* R- I& q6 o ( \ t& j% `5 m4 H+ i7 t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。) ^ X0 @9 f$ v) J* O% v% T
& t1 B0 K& l' G: E; r6 ]6 pFor 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. " - [3 C& h) _ e d) E. ?$ y- A & q6 g1 [# V8 ]% H) z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。 $ l: Z' U& v' V 6 ]( g2 p B, U C2 K' e6 WTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& |# v% d, r# X& f4 F/ Y7 j
% ?* p4 ~$ e" x2 _1 g. |“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 `/ _) K: K: \; U" K
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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." ( H1 ]" N1 p- ^1 x ! p. Q2 v r8 R2 v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”。$ N0 K( b. g' N* y7 e% C