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：: e( D& [; z1 l0 F$ o
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生命就是小甜饼： ) A R' X5 v, WOne 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. S$ D' y: o7 n3 ~& J# d+ b0 u8 k" j$ \! C# f! }! t4 E$ v
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”。 2 M! _+ d5 r; j* J3 d4 Y! k6 E. c# ~) z3 O- k4 S& N
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 X% }/ l( |6 ~$ B4 E1 W5 `/ ` Y- l
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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。 ?# { x' K( L# W( w
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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.3 Z7 K2 y; {( K7 A6 ?
2 ~- ]% C) X* b9 r1 U6 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。+ K6 J H3 d t' C" ?
% n+ p" O ?. Z# k; _/ s1 oA 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.5 h$ g6 i9 ~) G, |
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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。% u5 a! t/ M/ U; F
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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. ) B3 Y; X- q$ x+ y/ h8 Y7 q+ e4 [1 r1 `0 [3 v! A- ], k1 _; R2 f7 ?! Q
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。 0 }/ t V! ~" { x" C$ n8 E( e) M# R : }3 x; K; g. X/ F8 hBut 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. ( O" q+ v9 ]. T . a5 P0 I* _9 X3 Z3 {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。# X: R' S3 e& t' b8 V7 C2 g
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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. $ O# s2 W0 h8 W7 u ! z2 N u3 R S4 t% H! T, e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。9 i; M$ [5 b/ j5 Q7 V
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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. ' \2 q8 a4 c! Z; n" `" c2 k
2 Y' k1 B4 U' w- v. t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。 # D% V: {+ T) `* B$ x& a; I# J 0 O" Y3 l' V; O n; l" AYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 i( U% ?: M7 N- z. N9 S
8 b$ w# [! a: c9 J. o0 Z你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) U: ?# a6 w3 T
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." a7 z: e h( Y* |" f
/ ^1 P6 V1 `1 D5 X2 Y4 E. l/ x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。( P1 P9 o$ t1 ]# u
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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. " 9 f. G7 h7 Y! O" A5 s5 J( V$ k! R, O9 z8 m9 Y) \3 N
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。 % A, p- u6 ^' I4 {7 M) f! T1 B: R3 {3 N) Y: E, b7 y T
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., I3 [6 q( b+ H0 R3 ~$ U
& J8 u: C* n: t$ t“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 2 z9 F' @) z$ `; W ; M# v: w$ C7 D$ q( q& Q8 p$ ^* aLife. 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." . C4 {- u% E* j- q7 f( Y . |0 E& q2 u8 O7 U" H! X2 e- L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”。% U0 F; L% `# o. _6 _
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