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：/ `: `) a# b0 f( i S& a$ P1 v$ L
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生命就是小甜饼： ! s5 l: ?! _' B e6 M8 Y: AOne 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.: E# s* z1 D1 ? y7 |
, I0 S% `2 {* J$ X* D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 m' p J) V, \- S9 @5 [4 N
& {2 s0 @% Z4 _ s$ }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: |7 k* n) ?/ L) a7 H1 o" o% W/ w
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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。 ! {" d! E$ S$ H! u7 I ( E& S5 n* Q! f5 Q/ iSome 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./ C0 Q. G4 u5 z
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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。7 m0 q* Q' _ w. M
/ q( o% @/ a: Q' _# `* i' HA 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.' e% ` O) A$ K# `7 }
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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。8 O6 q, J# G; N d$ s% B* D
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ [& `, ]; S" F; i* W D
) G$ i% }7 G! P W! B% K9 T, U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。 5 L! ]. o: U; h8 \ 8 H0 ?/ d" Z7 q# x3 @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. , t1 N L4 P' F! Y9 K6 @/ L( ?: C" n/ g: i3 v7 D1 U
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。5 p* s4 x$ W/ t: o+ f7 g7 U
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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., H$ i* p% ^# R$ P
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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。. _3 `* I1 G2 q
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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 g& z. a/ a/ C) a F * K4 O+ g6 x# d( k/ W$ F) I( q4 T8 `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 d: }% N. T$ x& s: h4 s4 t0 w! \# i- G
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. / Q' E+ ~: ^9 R" d6 t* r6 l* B. o" `: [4 k2 l- Q. y+ q- ]
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 j0 Y! d c( _ ` - E+ U; @, ?- k9 q9 |' B3 ^3 [+ aHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; b- H: J2 G& c' c i# d! P
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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。 0 ?4 O2 Z7 d% O u/ g, B& [ : ?) J# S, @$ F! T; g) bFor 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. ") i. A% U- @* g( H
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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。9 B( u# [% p" F
, |$ J3 z" C$ z' @( s5 y! MTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. % i( ~6 M) g; d | 8 K p7 H2 A, I* v; o“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 # q# ?" b3 O2 x3 x+ w1 f+ t8 h6 V8 ^2 k! J! f0 l
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." 2 ?( j0 b( ~( T8 R) J' b+ v# ~ k6 b0 N4 e: A2 f) f& w
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”。$ M+ z1 W$ p# b4 Y/ g0 L