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：2 Q# C% p0 m; a9 ~! t
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生命就是小甜饼： / M4 _4 G# Y1 N6 [! vOne 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. % M p9 C7 W) ]8 D. G & P( L4 i! S2 s9 p6 p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”。 9 g7 A% _4 T5 g6 P) y; U H! b" n8 ~3 @7 R& U
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% ^# \! \ u5 z1 ^
/ Y$ b5 w. g' {: 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: d4 ]/ T0 o; l" E) k7 g
( u8 V2 }+ t3 E! y; v* D2 W, cSome 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. * |! Q4 R0 H" X, c1 {" M5 l 0 l; r, w9 U6 e# R+ {* |+ J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。+ F# J" q4 }' w6 |) ?* y* j6 Z( Y/ ]
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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. - o. S+ }/ ]5 p" z( ]: \2 I8 d, m4 ^) E, }, {$ A
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。 . J2 Z) R; K" m0 E/ C @ % h% Y2 |' j$ lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ( D0 G: e. Q, {: e* W2 _3 w$ J1 y# p3 [" O4 A
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。4 Y0 H' `, r7 ?( s$ N0 U
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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. * ?' h# @+ q3 k! o" n; J . Q m6 P. E) r, ]" N" ~( Z5 `& ?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。 9 Y+ ]( `. X. q+ P; [. S5 [; d) E: P' h" s5 O5 R/ C8 U/ ]$ Z! k
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. % h8 ]2 q9 v% h& B9 B9 ]7 b+ N( G( J& Q& s2 B! g$ P2 G2 l! l) 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。7 B/ m' E! Q9 R/ y5 p
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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. * U. i3 z H; r. s0 A + z% g# g; L( p A2 [# f9 v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 ~4 i$ a3 a; I$ m$ J3 \
$ s" o( f0 N. SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' J& k2 |9 S7 h; Y3 o0 O
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 q) a6 p- }( _1 ^& x" y3 q" ~% W9 W* u6 B H# V9 y
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. * P0 C# p5 B" i9 H , h/ L# \, k$ Z; u* X" b& e$ Y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。 . |( t/ p# D: Y' h. J& v) B6 q; w F4 t; G2 p
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. " ' T' U. \# j* Q g4 J* g+ X, O8 d; }7 z
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 J/ R) X2 `, ~1 O0 x7 [. S+ T/ \% x& h/ e* ^' H
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) o% S2 z0 m5 p) ~4 t) @; u, M" F
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( U. _' q0 t" L2 y9 y( g
, X6 W! T, H& [3 I( yLife. 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." M9 X9 z& C4 X' G" v( v& i
0 w0 M# r3 L6 c% h& k8 k2 K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”。: h" B9 v) o' r! D& r) s5 A
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