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： 6 f' T6 L# d6 k# Z5 z - B6 a6 I; Y6 a9 l* ]" \生命就是小甜饼： 0 O6 m' S0 `5 B5 ~# T. zOne 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 J$ s% i/ u: _- t. ^9 Z( b9 ~, r: Z% C1 j
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 e0 r+ H8 S) B6 j) S
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: N/ |; V! `2 O9 U$ ~7 S
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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。 , G8 e* R3 j; a" o0 G- \5 Y9 z* N5 H. p4 w5 \! y6 x6 f! Y
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. : W1 A6 T. _" L) h6 [! V, Q) w" |& K5 {% L! g
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。" e9 n$ o* O) a5 e6 F
' ~' ]! n- N4 t, W' A4 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. ) ]8 I& }! G! u" p X! f/ e' 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。 ' M" n6 o' }' @% v9 V- } . z9 B; @" a- ]8 kWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.. {+ d* ~$ ^1 {2 c: O1 k
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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。6 z1 R2 t6 E( {% Z
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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. / R( g7 ~8 B, M& m) F) b; P& h5 |2 K: f. o- E
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。 0 r' c2 U0 e$ p7 ]* x6 P; d. r- ?$ \( G C0 B _! K1 Y, ~/ y
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.' B0 ?5 v% O' R/ ?4 Z
8 X- S( \! z c4 j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。" Q, S; `( r$ V( [" s2 z
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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. ; l! g" P: U! B5 v6 v' t
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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。 / y6 n3 ^7 U( F' K0 t" e% [* i3 h0 Q4 a+ H
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 x* N5 o/ o- f) Z0 w/ M7 P* D! q
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) b9 Q% I6 D7 d0 \; S n. d" d: [; c. t6 b
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.% z g% z7 e6 p1 c; Y
. J x9 ^( }& F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。 : M0 d# l% g$ b8 ^9 Z7 p/ |/ m2 U
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. " 0 L N, F8 ~, x7 Z' Q: J y* q) | ) V$ { m! ?8 V8 Y. f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。* g4 }: L* o( b! k
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." p( i5 V( e8 x2 l: t
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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。6 U: g" |- F0 C' g t. R! @
9 w4 Z( V) y0 p; s( @! zLife. 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." 3 V5 S! I$ c; w( X* t1 O9 P : l& q" ]- b/ d4 H' ?# v% F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”。+ `) d9 g0 ^! a: |0 k