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： + I! |# u0 r/ H. [ ( O6 q, e5 G5 ^# O生命就是小甜饼： 1 u" x+ v7 ]* _8 Q# S1 c& V, p! [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. - Y4 v( D0 ^% r- i$ X0 R/ L0 s& G2 _* h0 n1 H) ^7 Z8 Y
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”。 ) E$ Q* u% H+ P& O2 |* U; m : b' ?- A. {' w: C# KIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ) o: p3 \. r. y( {! V( u' E3 e$ _9 T7 r
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。5 T. b- L% p6 I' t: `
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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. : C2 ^) v" c( i4 l( H0 |# d. I+ g7 ^4 M I9 r
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。& `- b* f, X: I9 W3 r1 K
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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. ( {1 o& A, A6 k3 y, }, ]6 j/ ^/ f3 b% z" G' D1 H: B) J
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。/ m0 R7 |8 Q* f" a1 T8 Q4 j: k7 }/ P
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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./ @. e% O3 b0 w3 \& }! K
# l# c, B$ @6 m8 r8 o4 I7 I3 K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。. _2 R. ~( H0 u) n3 o
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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. ! a( w' u% R( I4 G. ]. q; {+ z2 p" p3 g7 u9 C6 {6 Y
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。 + y& C8 m! B0 T; D# O# S0 w- a + U/ Z& {; _) V* P! ?8 B' s+ [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. $ }8 |) H5 n z& E 7 ~5 X/ K+ c1 o0 y P& D3 k9 H# y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 X9 E3 v/ ]/ ~1 m
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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. 1 R; g4 ?, C5 m% o; ^) O$ ~5 V, C* ?6 K
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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。 K; e& d3 n8 e. K
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 x/ T% D, p \
" M$ e) W3 D2 M4 \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& X& k2 ?' t9 J* \# W& h
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 {" [5 I0 ]8 v9 {+ ]' L" J/ a7 \3 G, S$ C& p
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。/ a4 H9 h3 L& ^
1 [( v3 r/ b( z7 A& t* YFor 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. "+ }+ _) i- N4 V% q* H7 U6 d
, w+ G9 L3 F, u/ s7 o$ D! x* k& N; V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。 9 h: ?1 Y9 B: U9 O8 ] s " S7 q6 Q4 ^/ D( H' X: p! q( f' pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 ]" U: S7 P$ s! e( d + J! V7 V3 A9 m“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - I r0 m. U% Y' U6 f" K8 v4 a. v
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." 1 \- [: y4 C1 h! a. b' J4 s; q0 d- q: v- A. j$ K* g# ]$ |' b
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”。/ e6 W9 }) h6 c: X' R; ^8 m! n- C
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