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： ( R0 m* f+ W1 L5 ^7 ?3 b9 c4 H! J3 r% L
生命就是小甜饼： 0 N3 t F0 [' S/ D: IOne 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.5 C! ?" ?* c* w3 v# x/ J
$ J2 n8 d! D2 Y6 b2 }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”。0 U' z' N/ s2 i' W3 J* P' ^
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + y3 M1 C/ H$ f# F" v ) p, {0 o7 v9 Y1 E+ 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。 % q; v& n K, y: F9 f# x( O8 ^) ]6 ]" |& U: _; ~: `, _' J
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.# d1 }9 @+ y: W" j! J+ y
* `' N. O0 w8 D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。! D0 f9 C4 o& |5 N9 k7 l4 z
% v* h% _/ _% Q' p; Z5 YA 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/ \8 \( s9 b6 P# z7 ]" R # J `; v- K" ?5 e# `8 _% |1 {/ \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。5 @5 V% ?' ^: a$ I' L. ^
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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.3 O& p$ U8 j' }* C( ~+ ]" V
# Y" t9 b: v* s' E9 ?5 y9 I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。 ! d& x) d. r: Z- K# z" S ' p$ b6 V3 [7 L! l% qBut 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.3 C7 C5 x3 {, b" @# k
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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。& ?1 {; K% ]: n; c9 s. m4 `% c
" `/ W% S( c- h7 B6 M4 P# wThe 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. ; g, n9 G/ c0 }# C% G9 C, ?) V/ I# C% e I1 r- V' v: {4 {) u
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。6 l. u; e0 {( S J: P* U
& ]# o- A1 E' r7 ]" D5 N# TYou 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. ) k8 E' n6 H; P
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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。0 Z0 A5 n4 S( |& z$ A$ d
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) ?% Q+ F; h7 Q" [7 P! b5 G " s5 q7 R# `6 f* U i6 i8 g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。7 j' J. Y- C! k7 _
l/ p9 x* D3 P8 T% {/ k; gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* `! z$ F8 t6 W; G7 n
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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。0 C7 Y: t7 D; i% s5 l1 W
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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. " F) W" v% c& [0 R
# @% e: Q" f/ y" J+ G4 L! I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。! n$ ?( }# {* z w3 b
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 7 J5 l4 h$ ?- f- s0 @7 |0 u 4 z" K2 e2 }6 B4 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。4 Q7 K/ S _+ |( k' B" S
7 u* f& o! U* U1 H* Y$ {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."/ ` K9 b7 l' v! ~/ U7 i+ p
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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”。3 k; D0 a. s! c5 x1 _/ D
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