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： ! o; t, W5 S1 | R! S+ B% t; K4 v, p* F }
生命就是小甜饼：9 ]% u/ |1 v9 G# s) G- X4 P
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.% E1 W; Q8 [7 @ o
2 @2 D. V0 I# J$ K' P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”。 - y0 r- |/ A$ w; Z& w" [2 ?* t7 o) C5 L
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* L) e% H4 V5 H9 z
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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。- G3 Z+ k6 {3 i8 T: i
9 U6 Y: `, L* s4 o/ J) FSome 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., Y, q. l. m8 P
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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。! R' N, \$ y5 t1 a7 w+ m6 N
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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., u( g, q! u2 K5 r" v7 L+ c
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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。! l. _2 E* \; j% j+ H
8 S" T" }8 ~6 z2 xWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 x: ~7 l4 e! F4 t& c1 l% h) c* E+ P R% ^: N; \! n+ U
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。* d: [: ~' N& ~6 f
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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. 1 d& z+ \0 t! S @" t' I* U6 c: |; X# S- D0 T3 N
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。. h: A" k9 Q, y. w
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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.* v' q3 Q6 U3 D$ A7 [
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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。( }" |" J& L: W; h7 J6 |
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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. ( h: g3 I1 @/ m! b' g
* n/ @* _/ k7 R: K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 P8 A* a9 O& M7 m' c" s
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.( X |2 c1 n: K. R
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( ]4 q* O, J! }+ _1 w: C! G3 b6 |) \2 i0 J
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + M7 T! `2 N, S: o . [' {' w5 Y+ Z" Y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。- R, c& u6 P F! X. q
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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. "5 b9 G% Q* y- j# l& [) N
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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。3 Z" T7 q2 n0 K" y! i7 ?% _* Q" d8 m
, i* x* P6 R6 U. ~$ `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 T! m, q$ h) D% o* R$ B. M9 w. B, y
- Q' J8 g" K# e) S' }3 F“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " t T( \% L! l; H. v. ^2 n+ }0 D' i7 Q6 R. v
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." $ s. _; _$ u$ O H( @8 p9 c: Y8 J1 ~6 B( S1 N+ ^2 K
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”。 & G7 l; {, Z1 A$ i. d0 G# s* l# b- w$ ~- q: k
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