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：5 z4 f+ b- U9 v+ g: z* a
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 ~/ p- r9 G2 W( BOne 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.* ?$ l$ Y$ B2 S7 `" L" a* N8 I
9 ? D, r5 }4 W3 U0 @. v9 p" G" M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”。/ G6 |4 ?$ a. o) d$ u# W
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! h8 a8 E( ]7 C+ g& a n5 K
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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。# N9 i9 K. u0 R l
8 J% X9 A& c4 V/ jSome 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.. ], z) t: ~/ u0 t$ `' c, k, P7 M, N
N8 Z# |9 h- P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。7 z" F5 N% q. g$ P, \! E4 m+ y
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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. ' h* E3 `! k3 W: f# E* t4 N ' ^( |( I: G) ^) S5 v0 |5 F3 \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。 & E; G# a1 d* ^( D% E4 ^ ' Q" q; R8 J( O( X% p* m" c& ]When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 6 @/ }1 T) Z6 g1 A( Q$ X# B1 z+ e, U6 z% V' i" i, u+ X
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。1 H& o: Y5 r& Z Y, k% R, U
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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. 8 A( x7 {( A* k2 K2 u / d3 |7 t- `; D! F% ]7 d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。 C1 I; c) p4 A+ T( u U C; D! ^# j" t8 W1 h- o, d3 N
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. ' W. P! B& p! O2 {4 s6 ~( z% p 4 a. S4 a2 d8 Q0 H% B: k. d( 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。 $ @* A. O1 ^" K) R ) m( v/ v" r$ y. rYou 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. ( ^6 ^0 P/ Q9 _3 C# d. s6 I" X9 n( r8 p+ z, _2 D. E
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。 4 W% u N- K3 d) J9 C* X- u$ y% @+ P& y& U& U p
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 t( a; ]- }& d
' q; p, n- p; b4 v) M4 }你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ b8 @! e% J' A7 M" f( V - I! q4 L7 r( M5 l5 |' x7 ~5 D# |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 D- H. _/ g! Y * t. V: Y) V9 t4 P/ h1 ]$ W6 }7 G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。; P2 F0 Y% H- t$ B
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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. "1 d; M% s' h P+ r7 M
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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 e2 ~; o9 I! p5 v) e8 ~1 {0 W . [! S6 V! V1 p# a0 V8 R; e( fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # g( |; m. C9 @2 T / r! u3 _2 e5 K$ `“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 9 W1 c; k: {# G5 i7 x8 E* ~ 7 l4 u% Z% K7 g- a! l1 a c) 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.": ?9 W, h. `: i" f( K6 @
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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”。1 l* b0 y8 f' N/ F4 A
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