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：- A; D$ D K- b. U3 ?0 V
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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.2 F) y) I x7 R/ G5 C
! L' O) j3 _7 {! N! {6 Y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”。8 X g% I2 L- d0 D) C$ W1 A
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - _: b4 X9 U, f3 z+ k ' Q1 s# c' a$ {1 r/ p" p8 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。 * g# n% D1 V1 d. \4 W8 f, P2 q1 t9 C' V9 i! c9 f6 d
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.2 d3 D5 F1 ^4 v" u
' O w- X1 A4 h. U1 Q8 |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。0 [6 \1 a% c; A( I3 F+ n! ]8 f
: c# n4 x' S9 G, P/ v& A- i' v9 J0 ~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.' w0 b$ y9 D5 s7 V
# U* |% {) i- L" X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。 $ X7 u: n( \1 k0 Y; R$ R- i. z$ i x p, t( b
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 s2 J* ]# U2 W) l
1 R& _. M6 h3 r1 h; Y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。 , N8 f' T1 e9 y1 E5 J: A ) L' y% _# m: B7 hBut 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. : z7 @ J2 ]5 A; _9 E1 \* n 3 j V; ~0 l3 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。" x- t; @0 ]6 ^& S0 j1 R' i- K
/ N% S, }/ P1 `3 U3 P& YThe 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. ' s& C( z3 H$ P, r: c/ Q% @2 z
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。1 l- }6 f3 u9 ~: M& F- z) S* ?
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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. . U$ A+ x& U# q! C' r4 R
. F% Z- }( k6 M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。 / u t$ B8 O9 U9 ] ( Y$ e4 W" T4 vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( ^; v; d {# f4 |5 H# V- D g2 D/ O. o m
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% L6 `1 e: n+ H. i# `+ g/ Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. * B/ U9 N4 B7 a) L( g; Z8 [4 {/ v+ Y1 G+ 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。 & ?/ l) M* G% ~$ }6 y U( e. p( U , K5 e+ L d1 `2 [1 T. NFor 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. "" q& `# v5 s* _% s1 p0 l. ?7 s
2 i# x: C& g% M. }9 r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。 - |7 t* M) g1 X# O4 |) r ) X0 v+ P6 _) Q, M+ Y sTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 I) r* m! l" z
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“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 K4 f9 `5 Q( F) }8 y0 Q: s
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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." p! @0 v1 ]* _, h . F' @6 W- Y+ t3 f: S3 d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”。/ `+ ?: G$ n- A6 f$ s- }' M
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