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： # g$ T! P. r8 @1 g1 {" A8 z6 G
生命就是小甜饼： 9 ` k! i8 C4 K% N. Q. OOne 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.; s1 o# [$ O& |; N# a$ f( f2 p2 J
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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”。! E( e& e3 A; K w
* Q, ~% ^! w! oIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 4 ?! g: W! A* d" F N+ w+ z3 U2 P2 d
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。! _0 w6 F. v6 @, S1 o3 | Y
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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.5 A J0 j$ y5 w" F, G
, h" m$ ]% b9 Y$ o$ ^& ~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。 / ^$ Y5 S8 J, o& K0 j( f$ ^" O + e$ ?9 Q( t7 M; W9 jA 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.- Y0 S# ?4 R6 n: D! K% r. d. P
; o, t9 F, S3 k' s+ ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ D& V. a% Q$ c6 l4 Q + T6 Y' `/ Q/ B9 { 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。 % ^% h4 B3 W( G( Z4 z4 X+ T; f; O: t: I' {5 Z; r& 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., _9 x$ p' ]1 ~/ T* E
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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。4 h- ?7 i% `% m, L0 i
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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.# F0 |3 }" V1 R8 Y
1 k5 z, c# y3 ?2 e$ h1 o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。 % W$ z4 j% H" v, s! D" J0 y$ W: w2 m9 i
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. # T- d. L* T8 J
7 _# ^" @, D; l# B, s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 V# I4 m- Y. k& 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.% _) ]6 S2 P3 R# m
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 s% o# z1 @) D+ R: T. K# U" G5 q7 O; ~5 E7 R
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " H O# f+ O2 X4 J+ w+ b % V2 H3 d0 r4 ?6 F% ^0 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。 ; u! x' m# o/ L: y: D0 S: T$ F) C1 x* a: |6 ?* z8 i
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. "% s" s1 M- B1 G+ _8 C. N
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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。 % F) Z2 |4 e- ^/ [& X* }& @7 `, v1 {
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; N) G7 }4 i9 a7 R& Y7 a8 T6 F
( o4 K) O* s3 Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( h% o4 U$ A' {+ R
% D3 h7 `$ G% _: F9 s4 m9 MLife. 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.", O: T7 k: k% V: `* N1 }: f$ X, T
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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”。2 P7 z% l$ M+ s# _