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： [5 n% I0 }, Q1 \ ( ^4 w4 M& C9 n K* s6 c. G生命就是小甜饼：" f2 ], @# I2 Q# z# [
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.: O7 M3 M& b, k, [/ ~& O
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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”。% J2 a0 Q6 a( a) `! g& c! j; ~
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( p0 ~* ~1 H" ]: f2 p Q 9 ^! @1 |9 U& a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。; |( @+ h* l# B1 s4 u
6 d f7 [* Y/ {, ^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.; A% `8 g9 y; `, G1 \/ q7 `
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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。8 J6 \% _; c. u4 v
* x; W5 y- D0 ?4 v" D4 `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 ?" a' E* x7 {# D3 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。 6 Y7 B% e; S @( a* u & g+ X* x3 |' ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 S2 y; c5 Q: Y- C$ w9 i/ |
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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。 6 T6 Y) F& i5 C; e' _! B # p1 B/ i" A; N- e* h8 QBut 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.# S' G- r4 A; s. s c9 p! X4 l; e
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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。 - p3 S' Y! [3 J$ c% | . ?) S* C Q8 J3 ZThe 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% R. i% P% o9 I. g. u
9 \! d' \6 o9 ^, Q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。) c+ ]' o0 F# ]7 G8 w3 U( b
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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. % ]# r% w$ o# _% d/ L' M
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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。& G$ X0 Q4 ?2 H2 n% s ?9 a
% }' p& {! F% PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : _8 W9 \ {7 X2 o$ L ; p4 P2 q( _) y5 E. j: b9 K s6 \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 |: C; o) k2 M' p4 s
0 k8 @9 d8 G+ P. | f6 v! `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* v, h" h2 v$ i1 _/ G! Q ^
% K4 y t3 ^* P) H* g' q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。7 q" e4 [0 p& B! S$ \& @" @
$ Q) t- c8 i9 q! o" T- o. SFor 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. " ! D7 ]) O5 H( H2 N 8 ^! N6 K- u( U8 s2 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。1 A6 L4 B4 Q! S. a2 b1 j. U0 x
3 K3 y4 u3 X, Y& @0 [" X+ ]Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ j, r: @- m, Q4 n+ `+ d
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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。 Z6 _! E, R5 M, W | ' z& o2 l9 m8 D: \! MLife. 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." $ M+ O# W$ {3 e4 a. |4 z# S; p; K1 j, v+ |6 B" J& L' g `2 j+ {
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”。/ z7 I* f: \- v+ Q' ], L$ x+ h