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： : L1 }6 `8 E3 o+ p6 G0 n5 d 0 a" t; `4 T. S- M+ l生命就是小甜饼：) i* f2 t+ i, Q S7 k
One 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.! k6 e+ v+ L" Y2 d U/ g6 @/ q0 f
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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”。! H& r c) Z4 G+ [. P
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ @1 ^- N, i# H5 [1 P# G
, c8 b, q- }6 @% J0 a: D g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。 4 A9 `+ M5 U: k O( Y! [6 @, o4 z) }/ ]. X
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.- Y! ^' G4 g3 V, |
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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。 . f+ k% w. L8 u( `; h5 X8 E; d0 k C8 ^2 m, {
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.3 \4 O( J/ c& W
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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。 ! Q* }- k9 s3 g( [; \( n) Y% A; u4 e5 d+ Y
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + n) g- e& @* L- I4 ^6 v. x . Z8 O S; I# J9 s* I4 Y! T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。 % E; X e/ f. u* F+ h0 ^1 H/ P9 x 0 m! H1 _0 v2 _% [, v$ 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.: b( k" E1 v- @% e' }
^! O/ m% `2 d. V8 `' o5 H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。$ g5 H2 {2 k) y' X7 S
) X6 u9 `8 o1 r0 L1 RThe 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.( U. @. W! a# B6 @4 X
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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。 ! Q0 A. {! Y, y/ i/ v % R: l9 Y6 G2 Q/ `8 J n/ NYou 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. 2 u; _: Z2 b! @8 A/ Q# M; y! {4 A: q1 E% o+ C9 [. X% B- T: m; [
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。& Z9 q G3 b7 B$ J
7 g7 \' x1 R/ ^) |7 D- S8 l$ HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.8 \+ y7 u o8 ?$ d5 K q$ y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( r2 D6 x- T3 o, M9 q
8 W- h+ d: z1 U7 XHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 c' |+ _# {* b! J& k" W
5 _& {7 _( p E% ^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。# w) S1 `- ?5 }0 u3 n; x5 Y
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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. " . F* u1 k7 K" F 1 p- u2 _ ^0 a; L+ A; U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。) ?6 B' e' v7 w
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% P4 e0 r! K; o! f/ {8 h: r3 K
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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。! T* g. y5 v4 Y- _+ k
0 K Z* g0 f( r( f6 ~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."; c3 e K5 \; L; q0 ]% M+ r
) ^2 `- G+ k7 B) T( w8 R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”。 / c$ U8 T0 D8 v. p y' ^7 m" k2 v7 R8 Q1 A3 p* q% u7 \
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