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： c) v6 P5 x7 D" p) C( F
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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.3 ^; O/ u4 N- f! Q0 e: Z* w4 J
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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”。+ {9 t8 P- c2 \$ g) V z6 t
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* k: ^4 i* m9 C: e$ s8 f5 ]
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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。; t0 f; f% [0 y/ B# Q
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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. 8 Y: S1 S" [" |9 q ! ~3 F& \& F* E: R/ o' i/ b1 @1 F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。 1 [% ]1 {4 T1 v) i( J% Z! m( H7 c6 H, L! N6 @
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. * s) {1 V* m# z+ {/ l ! y2 A) L1 o' F7 _3 V2 s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。 & ]* {7 j0 t1 X- A+ t' M- A; b Y: a) W6 E2 U
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 c6 B; u0 A7 g. O4 i/ ^, o1 N+ H9 t X' W8 N
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。- w" A/ f+ U, @1 f- N& T: L
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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. & n! D( g# t- C; | . o* C ], c# ?4 x9 ]/ U/ s8 b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。 3 g/ L6 w5 }! e5 o- _+ r + D: | ]- z/ F" h' o9 |. mThe 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.3 ]. L X" E: L9 i) b: f
' d5 P9 Q. C% L1 j, jYou 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. 3 `, i$ }$ e! `6 Q$ u0 E& V
" t5 h# u' b/ o2 i f5 f: x- q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。; e; A) I2 {: j0 \" E
% r q( W9 n" L. `- yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 k- Q' r$ l9 ]$ Z' _! `' U! c
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! y, \5 |4 u% i; f, h0 I$ WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. N. C; F6 G0 H3 T* a5 f+ q, b
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。 # w$ e% ^' o) N- _" d . `- ^* k/ y6 W$ eFor 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. " * G) o5 X! ^$ B) I; d8 J( N& B0 V9 a- ^# v+ y5 X j$ @( k
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 G$ W! @( n- `$ {# y * |5 V, `4 K! _* n9 \& {6 S* T- A3 mTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. : O4 L6 z- e7 Q& n7 \5 [# O 5 ^- c$ T4 p7 s) U. q8 ^“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" @6 _' X' ]5 R1 L- p
, z$ X6 r, X- [ S% YLife. 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."4 t( [- w* j3 J! P
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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”。% n5 R4 ]1 P1 \2 g" z. L0 }( @