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：9 `; a6 i! R$ ?
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生命就是小甜饼： ( _3 ]9 S* t1 |1 uOne 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.# X2 k! B7 m: X
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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”。+ g' \2 ~1 T) w7 R* C7 Z+ m: f
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 O. m9 f0 ? E1 C; M |% [
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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。) ~! d7 u3 \* ]6 ~3 g
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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./ T/ B; F M- [
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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。0 J& x$ J+ w \
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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.. p m, U. g) ^: x+ p
% [8 T8 f- t5 ?3 ~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。9 B2 g) Y7 @; I j( |8 E
) R1 t) Q( E) n( {When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: E+ p4 v) W( `* g
$ L' U; ^" Q8 |+ I% H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 f3 h5 g( R) j1 v+ q% R6 A/ m' ?) X4 M. ?' P- t3 T5 W% ?" L
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.- s6 S" {/ S; B9 A1 u
, V' O! T: ]! t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。 % F& V; S7 {; c: x , e' \0 f. z: v3 G8 c* e- bThe 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. L7 |' l" R- h4 [# T3 f. N! t$ \& q0 r
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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。 . a1 u: Z% s- \6 _0 y \: L3 T/ E/ r' Q& x1 J l
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. 6 i S, Z J8 T7 G. l7 \2 O8 B! o, h5 r# g
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。 3 U, v( k# D- d& h' N 4 O3 U: o8 ]+ o8 Q- TYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! v) M4 Y7 p9 Y2 `& U" [
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 * p& H# M2 S4 C( S6 | + p# a$ ? @; B( I$ K% V- \9 A" |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , z1 i$ ~1 Z/ X u" D" r; `+ K7 g+ f9 Z
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。9 `* K# g) s9 D- J/ _! 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. " ( ? _! O6 y! b5 o/ q- ~- u2 y8 z, K$ U1 b* M- r. a% Z* z
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。 0 `7 a% V0 z0 i, _ , W+ C% n7 P1 N" W$ U3 DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ( q0 `% W$ w+ ~1 I0 D8 {1 {- E7 A4 D0 M* m5 s) C6 C
“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$ J9 ^/ X7 i % F2 ~* z, K1 E: k" o( U4 NLife. 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 j4 w: w4 Q8 R. Z
& r q! r' x3 o* A" @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”。/ H2 u6 W9 Y. ]" D8 X( B