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： - s6 u0 U% K/ O; B % q# k. s$ k- R7 N生命就是小甜饼： * H. [1 }. b) a& T6 ^( {3 mOne 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.3 C! O& u% o. M( L H
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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”。' }# R) T9 c3 M
: D/ e9 M8 d, x; J, H' B0 L1 z/ OIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - t! ?) W7 w/ k* w7 W9 | # F7 p( C% s' Q3 X: V/ M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。7 O" y( E0 Q( A: D* X+ S% b3 n
+ `7 c6 @) T5 }. O5 C4 ^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: i# t- s8 c w/ r& W& p
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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。$ ~( h: [3 P; h/ q0 n, ~
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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. # M3 X3 {5 I+ n; { 1 j3 ]& X0 [ l. Z" C Y% I8 G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。 1 m! s, _8 R: Q! k $ I& [ k _* r& ^9 ^When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ; e' i3 M( E4 F9 M7 N T$ W4 j& p- B
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。 . r+ V0 H( M; r' b% i ; t' I8 i: f1 s8 X( CBut 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.+ z/ h. b* t, p. U+ x2 F, {
3 S# ]5 o4 s- O* sThe 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.$ i% m. O6 |+ N A3 j7 i
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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。 o; n% l" `6 q4 i6 ?
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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. 7 @( ] C* v/ v: u, K% X
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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 Y/ g8 q; d; h$ o$ J 8 A" y* y1 y2 c1 V! m& P. eYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 B( \) h% b: I8 p% P
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : t, Z, }& P- ?) O6 P5 N( n& J! Q/ A1 o5 k7 X! j- }' b, R6 d$ F
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. h' x |) [( E3 ~
& |5 r. E5 g$ w% oTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., w5 Z+ q5 e7 T- c5 D' [
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! t4 L6 f) l9 g2 d$ a' ^
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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."$ P# Q- @8 H/ K" {% l; q
6 F9 d- k' z/ H8 y% J4 V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”。# E6 C$ d' d. h. X9 y' T1 v) v; Q