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 g6 W: u5 x0 ? 2 p! |3 Q% I% O% \" @9 ^$ o5 t生命就是小甜饼： 1 \1 \9 n$ C' ROne 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. ; d% g9 b2 F$ d/ e9 L * s* d1 I5 L. j- _3 T# E' N. b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”。+ } W+ N, K# F& l
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 r) z h0 Y, S, `: J) a
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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。. \( u/ z/ B" |2 J s* d
6 I# y V" R! z! \% |1 M1 HSome of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address. ) l: N3 Z' ^: m' [- i ) d% G d9 v, j6 o$ Z) W2 z2 x不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。; i6 p s; O2 k$ d1 @% `$ n; R
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A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. r' I. W, y: L; Y1 E) |2 S9 T0 w5 o
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在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。4 y7 J% O, w: \7 {5 r- I2 `2 o8 ]
& j2 Q& [& D7 i t) [# vWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 y" k2 y2 R" s 9 q7 l% @" i5 h1 r1 e( C( F当我给我儿子一个小甜饼时，他心花怒放。如果我拿走甜饼或者是小甜饼碎了，他就闷闷不乐。 & Z! G1 \$ O5 l( G$ u 0 b* @8 u; a+ i+ P3 ]% T( B; x: EBut he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It's taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long.' j$ }% \) I/ r0 O/ `( Z
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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。9 W' F% T% z4 I& O
% n2 ^4 [2 k8 }: G3 c+ ^1 WThe 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.. P! c# e2 m! s \ g
- U* v* \/ g; r$ `* t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 Q1 `) A7 Q+ P% A% n
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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. $ s4 l5 |* [# i
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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 J/ l; P. A8 t/ O # Z; M$ D7 Y# k) k7 L/ vYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , w5 Q: B1 t' v8 o# d0 A) e9 W; O4 |" v) i
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: @/ D0 c% W. \" s7 `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( Q: W5 G' q9 j/ g E
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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。; ]+ b, G9 f; U8 x0 J; r9 O
! K% h) R: H, x: }. ^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. "( k/ o' t: g& r& O" v: m& l1 z
4 A ^, C+ ^9 N4 r, y- a) B$ ZTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. : h) R' ^# w9 \$ t; \, } ( g, p# [ J* Z% |3 \- k4 ]0 Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 4 b: n9 {' c5 B1 [. U) ]7 |$ p4 f# K _8 X
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."- U# M1 Q5 K5 `; P8 e& @4 T- K
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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”。# o8 H+ W. L( B
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