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： 1 B7 T$ _$ h% o8 y: a @1 n$ L' e. g* I- }- P& j' J
生命就是小甜饼： ; C( |, z( K6 I( H; y9 r) YOne 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.: d. i2 s1 R" b6 X4 | v
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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”。 * Y; \5 s5 q, L9 j0 P H% @7 B) l; `: ^/ s* m4 ~. p$ y! `$ H
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. ^8 M) Y" Q. A2 P+ A' H0 g
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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。 + C r0 }* d3 B4 b+ \/ a + {/ x N+ `5 ASome 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.( Q' e( @- f7 s+ g
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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。 # X$ c5 a# l2 }6 B; E% w # f8 t& R+ ?' |8 Y4 U$ W2 v# [6 b, }% xA 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. ( F% W9 U! _! U, z+ [( D5 d% v0 ]- Q) T0 s5 H
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。 / b' \4 D! K* b% |) i" z + w* M% P+ F. t; ^ V0 lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 7 z. N2 P; p5 K8 z+ R$ n9 r5 K; p" J5 P4 [3 \; a8 e8 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。8 i' L* Y* ~7 b# b$ K( ^
0 e1 }9 K6 x8 r6 C V! f; {( _4 SBut 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. 2 P' R+ ]3 i* E( d & U b0 B2 k. P, }; B8 h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。 ) ^6 c. X( m9 C- T& [" J, v6 a! U 1 t2 V! B' s3 w! KThe 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. 6 v. d7 j( {3 h0 y1 {5 R5 L( F5 V d! l* d7 r; h4 s
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。 0 e4 S0 V6 D* J8 S ( }3 y2 {$ U* P2 CYou 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. ' V* V! R- j) b& `* ? 5 X( N3 z1 [8 [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。! g& ~$ J7 f, a. ^2 {- h, u
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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.: D( H2 F1 `5 n% o
) o- i% @+ l+ UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 H; q+ y8 u' ^$ e& Q
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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。 ( X% {; ?* |: Y 7 S0 n, S4 B2 [2 X3 TFor 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. "& ]) z$ J( R' k1 A! ~* I- Q% \
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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。 f5 G1 |# a1 B3 A3 u0 }
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) U2 T4 j# o; O5 s" G , U* C9 `8 Q' h3 k2 v' }! y“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 b, W( f: B, b2 @
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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."7 P; p: p1 x% M8 A
" g% r' ?; X/ j k- K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”。5 h9 H4 _& j* Q+ v
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