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： 6 d0 C# h: A r1 |2 r& T7 B$ ` 3 W9 l' X- [2 S- G6 P% H4 t6 v% C生命就是小甜饼：, Y0 m% r; H* @
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. + y0 T8 g! v5 D3 ?$ c 5 X# W( ~0 q7 }- _8 X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 f. \- }0 V5 ?1 l' `4 b* d( z . T- S" N* h* N% D* gIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.8 \& D4 e5 V: \6 F
% l9 a& @- b0 {' s) r3 A S1 J! a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。 ; v+ I5 t6 O$ s + a0 l! ^, x9 CSome 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. 8 r: k+ E6 A) B a+ y# j/ s5 V3 U, m% s. C% s- ~% P9 ?
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。, c$ S B4 o3 P5 r1 C
$ m# B4 o# ^" h1 l; d% }3 ^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 v; X9 D Z) Q- K! ~6 k% a
+ U5 y1 c$ z& M7 {! O6 q' l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。 & f7 y- E1 `- C5 V0 R" e! ^' K. y6 s' X) w9 u
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., k$ k/ F' a* u' p
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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。9 L8 B& z4 z7 [% ~8 f2 m, R/ Z
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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.+ h' g. S- O# Y9 P$ }3 K1 A
3 B9 S3 r3 s% l5 O: gThe 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.: i2 H' ]6 G4 I( c1 o! b3 w6 l Y4 h9 ]
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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 ?4 l6 H( c8 [. y3 ?
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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. * O% A/ x- J' e. { " c1 Y) K( j0 W7 r K& u/ x- w" U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。 0 U8 a1 I1 h* e" V1 r; j! [ 2 Z2 e* P: B4 U; j) H7 E- KYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' }" q! k6 @; T8 ~8 O
( n/ Z7 N( s) @" ^# b( V/ i5 d你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: d. v- K+ V: ]# }2 \) {! D
. e! C) v$ V) I$ ^) ?Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. . R8 G/ |$ H0 H% G( U9 { " Q7 ?7 r' `( Y% u5 x9 r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。- I2 M/ g9 r# ~, S
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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. " ' d; U w+ I' P) T& R6 r7 j2 A J3 E8 c9 B& ^
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。 8 U7 W8 S- k8 o1 W/ o0 n Y, x: ]5 w* T7 W) Y3 `. E( o9 ?
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , [5 Y/ t1 B; R" }( X5 H1 |/ d; Q% \
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% x$ b( f1 `* @$ e- p& _& H
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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."9 s% G* v5 c' }
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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”。 4 }+ i: d) w4 r1 X4 c$ D' N3 K1 j. W* n$ W* n
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