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： " w. x" r* `9 U$ m p, r# N, h8 I! Z7 x% l6 Q' ^
生命就是小甜饼：9 F! P0 v2 j8 W; V' k( ]
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.+ ^- S8 U( E1 |2 `. n! X v
0 y6 k3 c% j/ v( q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”。# P' r% o! Z( g5 U; j
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 P6 V" z' f. ~! B b3 o2 p5 G8 b" j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 R* x. ?$ K( V
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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.# c+ u* O3 D& m, K/ K0 Y
% c& J$ d% a- |' w% C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。 : m! M$ Y5 v$ [( K2 G5 z, U( I ! r. `+ k: T, Y7 [2 JA 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. , `; q; F. ^$ d9 v1 A. V/ e |# B/ }8 f* K0 N
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。/ \+ C d8 j3 O
( s9 Z, {: n2 i4 C ]& J$ Y% AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " \% R8 Z+ R( T0 y! b9 W6 f + [/ [" Z9 s, m, `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。, I5 L" n0 L2 }: q: ~9 ?
$ W" D5 x1 A5 F) Y6 _4 KBut 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. % i' b% z% w) x9 Y0 c+ w& |/ W7 s) K, Z( Y% e) S6 q
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 B9 C* s6 c2 W9 `: z6 A% g % c' S+ t/ A* {8 r! H0 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. 9 }2 @4 w# \# V9 W' U ]' `) d8 R; b
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。4 q' O* \( X! t5 `7 w
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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. 0 ~4 H. l$ s3 f& F$ N1 ~4 c$ w , O) o/ H6 V, S9 G' n d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。0 b* j9 E% w6 N; g
* h+ i) w0 J. c* OYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. " d2 y/ c' A; g$ f* Y + x' c" F% n5 e) [: F1 c( R w你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ A5 Q8 y3 f+ a ) P6 _' ]$ Y; e6 u, S$ j+ w) hHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ @" B/ [1 y; e8 Q& ^. M: q* c, b5 q5 }4 Z# j0 d9 a: s0 @& [% u3 Y- s, w
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。 v6 j& {7 r$ d. [# ^, @, @; S- n) O
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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. "# r' F( s) a& y! U
; L' l: w5 R! w+ u2 a7 v( p) RTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + {+ V2 }" k @ ~2 g3 z$ j' M. W3 Q1 T% v& G3 e9 D
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 L/ J1 y2 X: n( ]
% u0 ~4 @+ K+ K+ w$ K& W8 O6 D0 M; pLife. 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."# u% M+ s& z, O
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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”。 , B7 D+ @6 H# d6 `) Z6 R7 K8 O2 |# d' E
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