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：9 ?+ ?$ h9 |7 Q" u
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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.) i, s1 ?- t/ |0 N z* ]4 A
. E9 q5 \) e5 {: X& I/ g( ^2 U- s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”。 / G# j: a) J& R4 H) h8 g 9 F# b# J+ `% V" H+ @- x: z# UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 k. B2 p) K9 z3 \3 v; d! G8 Q1 ]4 h% h3 |+ d4 P5 L& g) T4 |
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: B( e% j5 P/ N* S( j
% ~5 _2 E& Y& t4 m6 r" ^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. / W+ N) `9 `% c6 i4 g& y' u 1 X/ V* P: g+ M8 p- Y# O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。2 V* [ S7 t8 H& G ~* Q
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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. 6 i; ?( ?2 ?; F, U% G% h7 `+ F7 R# v( ^ / X7 ?! t7 v" R0 k- l1 h3 Y+ 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。2 Y5 S: m! h( |/ N# t
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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' J3 B4 w! _& a! q& H( X
& X$ C3 x/ I$ l9 T. N- K& }* L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。 ) B0 ?3 N# ^' E9 M1 D; W, Y: C \+ v( {: a' k: N7 e( Z8 ?4 n
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. % w3 }% N: ~: X( b. V- _( n, z
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。 8 [* m* ~4 r7 U3 A7 z3 m+ d* g6 T3 J3 e9 e: t; S# c5 B
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. ( @% C# N$ [/ N' V5 T0 ~ 7 m' g# r3 V0 i. ~6 n& ~1 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。 S2 p k! r8 h : n6 S7 G+ J7 R0 uYou 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. " C0 h. w6 K' c' d3 }
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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。5 I5 u& s* r& k: ^) a. ^5 ]
6 T( n2 h3 k. j: n! k$ h MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 5 Z! i- u4 g: M. c0 m2 e9 E0 x2 z$ ~: y. k
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, a% c% _" J5 R1 r, r" M: t5 D9 y
9 X0 i7 c Z' k1 e6 pHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# Q* `; l. |' V9 T8 X
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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。 . }5 F( j- \3 C $ d+ Y# y+ Q6 FFor 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. "! y; z U! C0 `3 U: P$ b: v+ Z+ H
- t. p: f8 {, _$ k" Q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 N/ z: x+ m( M, v- C
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ]9 [6 ]& E5 {& U/ {, P ^ # G! l+ L1 A: w' u- o% U4 Q% H4 o: W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 + a' v; I8 y1 W5 x% p4 @) D4 u5 x8 z/ C5 H1 J. l! G0 j* L
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.". z, L( ?0 A) Z' f3 Z
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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”。6 N! B1 a6 [5 D7 a- z- t