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：7 |4 v# @5 V9 j- S! O$ v. Y) @
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生命就是小甜饼：# q; [! s, B& G4 w3 F4 U1 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.% ` q- v; f: p7 g$ W
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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”。; V$ W B) L$ L- {* w9 \7 K* V% T
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + e& w) S- `$ c1 j# A0 W: ` : Z. Q% ^* L6 `% ]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。 r& T, N& F# j+ x; S( @
. Y2 G5 k e( N9 ?0 y bSome 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.% w! l* u7 D1 t% [' A
R, d! H9 x2 m. o( _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。! |9 x/ W5 q6 Q/ I
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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. c0 H7 [4 A1 X) e
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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。 & P- Q i* I; C7 S 4 _6 Q% ]+ ?; q3 \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ H# j/ ^$ Z; C
& T( K8 S% N7 K) _+ I, s5 N: R7 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。9 {* L% ^8 F$ e% @5 P$ N
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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.! ]/ T) R* k, P
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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。2 p$ l$ R2 t+ ^( V h# \0 |) B
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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./ L& m% D" |6 y- h; }* R( C. W
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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。& S' `1 U7 K' X; J' I
3 z- i/ O6 ]+ p( SYou 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. - A) H: q- L5 q1 X5 q! T; v 3 C. J/ R: G) G8 `4 H. H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。 1 Q4 [7 x( O8 D( B: } ( g1 q: Q+ p2 o! @, xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 c5 x7 c" {* c& u7 j
* s5 I- d* A+ L9 e1 m4 o' H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 B; T0 e0 M/ a* W; M
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) p) h* |% g: {
0 U" m" S) }/ w1 y/ E5 yFor 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. " 6 q3 M5 J5 q4 {5 C$ x 7 P/ A- O2 F+ }/ z e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。( J- b% y6 p* ?" G1 ]) M
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., `: n; _$ O6 r9 f/ I
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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。" x. i. v2 t& X8 L- c
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Life. 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." 5 b2 B' n! n6 W$ p$ { - i3 N. f1 K0 A( v% K- j4 d) x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”。* N w: a0 X; j% ]