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： " p5 c, c# K ]/ ~ / G5 `/ ~- S: z5 s/ f生命就是小甜饼：( i2 i8 Z& x/ F! C# D# F" K' `: @5 v
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.6 F* w2 C6 i" C7 t( H
# T8 l/ d U- M* 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”。 $ t3 G# ]8 c9 a2 ^2 I+ N 9 o3 \2 B/ g4 q5 U$ u5 jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 @% l" D- c+ ^
; c. R% i- R3 Q' ]$ y T7 k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。/ u! b: _/ n4 `6 L2 r- _* I
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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.& x- |& L2 z1 ?% r) G& \
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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。! w/ \8 W) s4 `8 t8 R
; D) Z6 [" f% h) F9 ^$ QA 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.* l! u% `* r, M0 I+ l' W
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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。 " R) ?5 e$ j# j6 Q; ?, n; p! z% x + c. X* g- l' q1 \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.0 X- e1 B6 C* ^/ k J
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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。- O" o% f! a" B9 m: h8 W; V! o6 ^
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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. % d1 h: K+ V1 R2 d" f5 e: Q , ^; Q5 b1 {: @( }3 Z6 h5 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。 2 e! [( G' |* x N* I8 U7 U) `) |* C9 j' G o
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.4 v0 U$ y1 j5 U1 a$ X
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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。 X, G$ G% Q5 K) L6 s, ^; C/ N
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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. ' D Y3 F r! a, T5 m. e5 V6 Y
4 M, M4 X. z' T# x3 \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。+ L; C! r( z1 |* N
+ U# n3 p8 E, ^$ _2 G3 @& |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ n4 i+ [; s$ I
; j8 W: Y5 ]! v' v你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 Y* O5 D/ W, C; u# I' A" H7 b1 D% j( f2 a
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 Y+ L3 `0 q0 R
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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 v( s0 a; L/ u2 s
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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. " 5 r" `5 H6 E# j+ ~9 H8 { 7 m Z- o M! q) o$ p. V$ t2 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。/ f# B. O6 w6 u) I6 B+ o6 y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* J T- D( A' N( R1 z& _& M
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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。 4 P9 Y, p5 R- f) H0 U9 d 8 K( L9 {% O9 W7 j, ^5 I6 J: G" iLife. 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."! _6 P7 V# a! h' m. ?9 {
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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”。. [, T( Y, |3 C