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：, m: y: i2 E7 B& |8 z' z8 C7 w
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生命就是小甜饼： , H% S8 z# z, ~3 ^2 u4 H+ hOne 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.5 F* S1 u+ z! V
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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”。 4 [$ s4 H! \8 ]: O, @4 t & q" O/ V! p# I6 L0 d* \+ b2 Y+ }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 P: J. c8 R1 J* k ]- e
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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。 ) k, H" i' z% t* f/ q8 P6 D3 | / R% q+ i& ]4 ~& I" FSome 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. , G0 o# J2 j1 k' D. W0 Z % N1 N) c! |6 P' u7 ]4 h9 K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。4 d' ?1 `( o2 f3 x$ }7 P1 ~
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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. 9 o/ N1 {/ n o) b ! g; X! j6 P( ~1 B+ q9 O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 i& {( R$ _; Z3 [
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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.8 `8 @5 F' U$ ~4 K# h; U
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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。 6 Q7 b1 A. b. N4 K% D Z; H8 n8 m5 O& ?' _6 V( d6 t5 \
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.3 S. `7 l* R5 O( v
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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。% S0 h1 O |" k( c/ a- Q) d& C# y
$ h8 \4 Y8 P* f' lThe 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.+ V' w$ \# o7 F6 o
" U! {6 |) \! b# V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。 0 ?( m4 M# g2 I/ S% A+ v- a1 \. e1 ^; t0 v# C1 A8 B5 } F9 v |* K) u6 @
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. # ~( V7 t9 \' N5 p! p0 n 1 J+ P8 I+ z8 j7 e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。, J& _0 q; K- G8 j
& _. {, ~( l$ u1 }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: ?( ]' x) A$ I2 U" ?
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. x; \$ H- i& ?2 Q
$ U3 g) ^+ }8 S2 Y1 h: _: nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # v# ^1 F, ~ @! T/ ?" ~9 a4 o2 k7 Y+ r. _! C
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。 : x/ [9 H# v: v4 J ' d! U" [5 }1 j- P7 D# 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. "* U# u v/ J9 K* M8 [1 s
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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。 2 v X6 n! e. R) Q1 c+ | 2 Z Q* q o; O( cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 {: X5 G' M3 m3 s/ ~
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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。4 |8 p4 i- g7 M! c! N" ]
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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." 6 s+ ^; D: ?* H; x% z ; t# @6 S4 Q1 o5 t# T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”。 + z5 A2 D6 Y# @) h$ @4 w. E" I7 I" p: p# C& c, ]5 e
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