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： / d* ?7 v& x* W* J8 t. ^+ V V, Q/ ~0 }( t+ k; a
生命就是小甜饼： & D. R, e8 N9 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. , K+ L. Z# Z& J: d# }3 ^7 W' { H9 E: L) I4 f9 X! O
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”。 i$ n7 s( s/ {) O2 Z+ j
2 _& N0 i& F0 s) mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; D8 M- X% `4 R" h- z& I5 F) r( Q. p0 @) p
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。2 E% k: B8 m4 }
0 J8 `% T4 z7 y2 {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' Z& M3 s. |3 q. t5 ?3 y- ~4 b, ~' ^
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。 ; x8 A2 |3 ?% K g' M( z 7 ` a4 r9 a+ u* R8 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. ! |4 z9 M3 U9 w! N $ W7 M- c/ p3 ^4 \3 c7 t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。 3 m& V6 N5 w q( o7 e' A% |( I6 c0 L- G# [1 c+ ?7 F' p5 E8 Q
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: O4 ] k: }. u# E4 Z( I9 x$ }
* a4 t8 L( W$ `" V5 u$ ?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.! r9 }* `1 q! I6 m9 P
6 W3 i* H: ?: e7 r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。 9 x' S& S& i* ~( n, p {$ l6 @ A8 @) Z, j6 R# x# m2 v
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. + }7 Q# [7 W4 V8 w& c/ D8 Y; C' \" r) h F8 p
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。 P: e1 H8 _6 b . W7 z) g) @" T! f1 J" P2 _2 FYou 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. + k$ p( v: d2 Z) J: \
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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。5 e$ W& |* B6 d/ l4 p, W4 I. x! W% P
' G& u7 I5 d1 sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 8 U; n+ m( y1 C2 E/ g1 p0 f% i! V / |" a5 ]2 z- a2 I- ^你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 |9 \# `* Y% ?9 T6 l+ m% K 0 s6 a3 ^3 s( b- eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + L; w3 _2 X7 S2 q! [# }- J * m* C- o* n) F* a; V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。8 K. m: Z- q0 u/ D
, `! s5 B- J! U* j: D( L% PFor 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. " . ? i8 }: u1 ]. h" _. E , S( v2 M" o& I7 D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。& V9 d; q1 V2 I* b
5 s$ ~4 c6 Z9 e, X# O: P" K, kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' j7 k$ @ h3 A* B* {
5 J" V# U* ?4 Y' _% M, x“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 , [" G' q7 [9 N, h& V' @ ( a8 v. ?2 x; r/ P2 N& {- _, k9 tLife. 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.") ]5 D7 q; R: h" o, O
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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 l+ e8 p9 s$ B
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