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： 8 u% e# K5 b9 J( {6 Z6 x" `8 Z! T" D7 `, z, J
生命就是小甜饼： ; w0 a) g6 Z, V: U: o' g2 ?# lOne 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.: y% n6 T" e" L y& C
K& k/ d/ u. z) m4 Q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”。3 s% D& O6 L# F- I4 M
1 \; p0 V# a( z! l/ ^0 b( D7 lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 B. j& M9 h: p( _( @
- Q2 l) ]1 ^# gSome 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 Q5 d. e8 E+ w. S7 k3 F
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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。! e5 G1 M: g2 J( m& M; _! w& X
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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. $ I4 {9 s1 r2 D. C: t2 L G 8 i& t- k, {! G+ \3 o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。 ; G+ G7 r) w2 F5 s. S8 D* \' @+ R% K" Z" {1 L4 r; _4 t0 Y2 t' a7 M
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& N6 C. o5 u5 y% P( ^, o1 _7 p( U
( o) n! x$ N6 C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 e a( Y; U- J8 J' I |
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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.! O! u4 J) q6 L( P6 J8 t5 y
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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。 % U7 V; B5 T# l: x; C 3 T0 D+ M: b9 D2 ~+ M" DThe 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. 0 v+ a' u1 X/ m' g" d% ^9 x) X8 E v8 a
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。 1 c! o/ b) c/ a8 `" y) f' q ( b6 u) B, d$ Q& N/ [( h- u' dYou 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. 5 v" v/ Z8 u& w, z1 h) \9 F
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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。2 Q& R( x) K5 u9 K8 p. h5 k5 b5 _
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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.. m _! B4 N4 a
0 S' D) k; ~: z( H# c" H7 G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * ^6 L$ Z; L7 f o7 k" ?) D9 T/ b( m5 T6 w' D2 F7 M
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 g/ o: W% [: g# ]( q$ F
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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。 1 a0 h& \5 _# m9 I 9 U( o5 S3 v. d$ k# ~% IFor 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. " / S0 y w: J9 w* a: O + e7 y/ ?7 Q) A' Z8 Y; _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。3 z; ~* s$ j' c# y9 F: R
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 e" k% ^& H @+ k ~% s) K1 i, I5 x, ~. j% V! ?: z
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: V5 b( I4 p: u$ N
B! T/ h, m% y* K2 v0 B4 u( cLife. 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." 8 j' { @! D# T8 `& S ( g: K9 i* B; _# b. I& J3 O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”。+ H* y0 f& W( a2 V, Q5 k/ n8 s; Z
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