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： 9 c/ b& L+ r4 }: v U8 A$ O 4 k" t0 G& j# q0 w6 F0 h生命就是小甜饼： 9 w; q* P) T7 }9 ROne 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.- a0 Q* s5 m/ J/ p, b0 G
8 k* E [; v* L. Y: Q: Q. {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”。. n& @, o1 C1 f# \) V0 h
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : w; @0 q: p- b4 k X. h6 r) [/ d2 m$ e/ w7 P" R: Z+ {$ j3 [& [* H
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。 ; [+ I- \9 U# }/ s 1 L5 K& ~" V/ a7 X3 ~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. / p7 |7 x5 e: i- D; Q9 D 5 v. o _3 Q' l& w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。/ h0 x' @. u9 ]1 F' _% D
3 H" F6 [: O! o3 n0 }* L0 \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.. w* V5 h; J4 ?: a
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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。4 f3 V. Y6 Z. a! z" M5 K; o2 s
! h" I% n8 O. X V% j; W# J: uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." s1 P4 z; \9 e. [0 L# X! G
# @* e8 z4 k# x f3 j4 h" V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。! k5 x3 D+ { _4 m
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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., u1 r, C3 O) m5 t) w+ s) D
$ S$ t8 U- N2 [+ Z4 V+ p% ^# C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 C+ R1 U. ^9 h! ?* b) v# D; Q* ~7 } ^% L
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. 1 {% o8 _: G7 n9 s$ t2 V 1 n' r% O1 N B7 x y2 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。. F0 R: m6 O: q- H8 `
1 x* \$ S" U# j( @9 d3 pYou 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. 5 k' C: @) G8 h/ `7 Q2 F n- U
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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。 / H! ]5 ?- _8 ~' N 9 A! O! r1 }! Z5 C0 UYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- i+ q& g0 c9 Q! e- e$ n f2 y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 r+ j+ N- m# M" N/ j$ i$ r4 F% V% F) y7 j
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' f4 d9 D! S3 }. v5 N2 o, H% k- p" Z
y: `% ]! i$ e0 R: F, f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。, J/ C1 K$ @: J6 o# O0 |
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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. "2 v) q* r2 `& y( A3 X9 k
/ c3 D2 s5 q+ A) P ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.- R; o f6 y6 o- ?( B& O3 ~
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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。 ; m+ i8 u: c2 |/ H! T $ l; i2 t _. c* k0 V( `9 z: C* sLife. 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." : S" x, E- w0 J; c- j" y) L2 n q; |
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”。 0 ~2 Y. \$ k( R- M# l' a9 v% k O) |" o: l/ q) K/ E! x
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