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： 4 D `$ w7 H( X3 `0 N 9 j: @" V& Q2 R# x生命就是小甜饼： ' M; Z' p3 A6 s) D% q* VOne 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.! C. j T+ ^( p. O$ t. s
- g$ f+ O/ O3 k' U$ c/ j4 z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”。# E2 [& p) ?9 n6 E8 c( ?7 r8 e
) y' G/ h. @, L$ h& _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' T) p$ f% j; R9 W& \/ q( d3 f( B1 S$ y; x) N
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。 1 f1 h' J4 ?3 f. N- E/ C* a. R6 t* ?9 ?
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.7 [9 d+ Y' H+ Z1 E) _
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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。 4 @; d: _, D3 ] z ' }1 ?0 L' N- C6 u% H' UA 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. 4 H, _1 R3 `! U; q ' L+ F0 O2 v. X, O" W6 g W3 T: z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。5 B/ _& }0 U; W+ Z
5 u9 x0 f( E4 Q/ B7 sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ( ^6 L( r4 i1 b# H" v7 Y* D4 n( F, g9 y( \3 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。 9 r0 @# B7 F7 I8 Y+ A) Q( p 1 x0 ~ O7 S- b$ n3 \But 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. s: a1 Q' A* s2 H 2 Q! W% D2 O: ?6 l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。 * h6 `4 c, p X# e; ^9 v + Z/ X- f- b$ j( y9 _ DThe 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. . C5 r, ]: W; ?+ L. K/ s " P8 V8 J5 G7 E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。 5 }3 y. x% @) N. l5 U# i; O. s* \% Y# S. ?( a
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. ' r3 g/ G1 f! S - ~' `* F, H5 \. j0 j3 d/ |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。 9 H* M0 Y8 r. Y! |* t3 `, Z% `+ P+ b' t9 o- T4 s6 @9 {
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 R: U1 v2 ?$ D9 D& w
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ b- z/ Y, p& _7 m8 U8 D+ d$ M# a
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ [; ^" Z' @! ^3 i 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。 % h( e. w; W) Z& Z4 V3 J) K4 X5 J5 y. M8 E4 t
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 |- O0 B/ N; o9 ^/ @2 Z
0 }% P6 B n" i" X: h8 _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 B5 f; t# n* R9 O/ N
" U' T/ I0 }0 hLife. 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.") O8 q6 |) M: L9 x
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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”。8 h" n8 i6 ~6 s, c1 y/ h