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： 3 \1 }( P/ B# V" c( x' }3 V : i! b+ _& `( o) q3 p生命就是小甜饼：% W6 g8 u, t9 V3 i% W
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.8 n2 C* }1 e, G: L" y
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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”。 4 D- o4 ~' R4 |5 g8 X' n0 l# V, P; Z8 M o$ K. u
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. C6 t/ b& S; y P+ e* Y+ I( k% V
0 A. d+ A( N! V- F/ _3 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。# B2 Y' c9 f4 u1 R( i8 h7 F
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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. " r. {* i; _4 } H7 G 0 ~8 t1 u/ v9 p4 J4 C# }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。 , t1 z0 [! b6 l6 e, d* N. u / G6 k4 w0 G# w: s; {4 w8 yA 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. # i3 u" t: { P9 }6 C6 X4 e0 u7 e
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。 * d- [8 h5 O, H4 F: o8 {5 D" ?; U: U9 Q, _" X+ r9 a: b' @% l9 y' W
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 6 z8 \$ I) T! O6 K/ ^8 ~. x4 e+ G6 C0 p2 d# `( p
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。 1 J; x1 c4 j; P6 o- g 7 X$ @/ v, G/ a, v; v8 EBut 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.; x+ M! x$ i& y+ {) Q4 ^
% E* V; {0 q8 e6 b6 V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$ ?8 B% b# c m: e, t# O7 r
( v! X& o8 X9 N8 X" xThe 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. & m/ I. w. ~$ Y0 p2 U" ~6 ^; E" o7 [( S( i* o8 h% u
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。 - ~9 K3 _, k0 g; [ Q6 k- {" d8 C, _0 {* L% s
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. # [ K) O2 O r( t$ l$ `( z+ K3 B% E1 l4 U, {. t
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。 / h' C2 H k9 W, O) T8 y5 u/ R8 ~ 4 C6 X% C2 x3 ?& d: b7 `* vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* d) n) n. Y7 i% ?9 W
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ x1 ]5 j* m! _# N( A- `) F! \
3 V" U* D. ^0 M' u- @" U& EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! i+ N1 F, |# T8 P% k
. A. u( ^: A3 n* m5 ]. }% E9 I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。5 [( n- ]* I# f: H! x
! a: Y- I+ A" E$ c) g4 sFor 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. "; d8 c- s; G" r) O- g$ x8 a) ^4 K9 P
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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。2 e# S( u2 B( [3 ~
1 }% ]% C3 }; J0 r0 H" g; ?' k& ~! ]Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% d* Q, J7 l: Q; K
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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。3 u0 A8 x G, t4 |
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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." # F6 o- A# ? S) \* h/ d( p/ r1 b- `4 R3 x' V& F5 F0 T: E* \
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”。9 F* T! x: ~! X) ?1 h8 X
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