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# r1 W; J6 | ( ^$ ^* r' A' J0 @- z' k; E生命就是小甜饼：1 o/ H4 [- o! G! [% w. `+ `5 N
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. & Z' I' V$ E4 c5 o# i ` ' C4 ?0 u) Z1 D. o6 b2 w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”。& \' V7 h" w% ]# _
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 4 [6 Y: G) x. |$ T( G% V7 E. M/ V" B2 ?+ G2 @
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。* z# C% r6 v$ L4 F' O! @" ?3 Y
( v! ^, s; f6 y# Q( F! e: _1 c' JSome 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. $ ~7 Z# m# H$ P( v) s( {) v+ S! c( R & c: ?: n* X( Q7 m( k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。 ; e# \2 H) p. v! ]" m% S. e0 e1 b6 R* x& @5 \
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.2 V& i6 ~8 p' {' N+ d3 x+ j
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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。2 m' P# s7 }4 a5 c
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ) H, V" v! o7 `$ j7 H2 X Z" C( S7 a) V
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。 7 ^: A' \4 [/ o# b: E" b. o( z0 \* z( ^
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. # g. M' c; v# R/ b 1 k0 @& n @' w8 G* u! ]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。 f7 I$ a, ~. }8 y
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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.( y) p& R; p! ]: r
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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。# O( Y6 ], z/ M! Q; G3 `
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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. w) F. b* d8 ]9 o* \. E# F6 l3 D( T# C0 | a6 {0 s# M; d7 j
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。3 d/ k. U7 T7 O
/ q" G, Y& Q9 | o! RYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 N F9 }1 q, y8 A9 B
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" b: O# l+ C5 o5 L8 e }! I" V6 x
$ a% R6 Q( M: N4 yHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. / I4 c' M* I) I6 O8 l( z* N) y7 m2 o4 B9 Z9 T' Q9 C
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。 3 O# T- h9 m2 _7 R8 o% X9 e ! U9 z# v! c/ X7 S5 h7 \1 ~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. "" ~- Y7 j, G- N5 w; o
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 f* y& ?1 C4 y5 c
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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。 0 Q9 a8 B2 v V" E* m 0 g/ V# X/ O* K$ X# tLife. 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." - u2 M# e! o. i* b" _ : j0 F5 v2 e/ p2 x# ]! l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 z# W' S* y3 r! D4 f$ n9 B2 Q
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