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 y U4 d: g2 c, u0 k
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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.: P# K8 W# Q5 g: A+ M
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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”。, Q( H+ P) w4 G& L7 q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." k$ K1 s# E& ?+ v2 l: X
5 Z4 i) G4 t: A8 C9 u2 Y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 b7 F3 Y X3 M* P4 x. |# j H$ {
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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. , _2 A! W9 I7 u0 N ~1 ] % }4 L- E* h( P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。1 \ V W+ i4 I$ r9 Z
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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.8 @" o# n9 b2 P7 x; T
% z3 y7 h# _# V+ |- |, d5 r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。" T: ]* P/ X( r5 _3 X$ f6 d8 h
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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 \0 r; p# R* s) i0 `- O& q+ z3 z: E& y u. U6 v3 w
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。 , G, M% c0 S8 j" R# e0 A* m. B' d2 x3 y: {* t3 j3 w
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. s: y: p( K I4 B" C
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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。+ L1 Q) q2 Q- q" {- A
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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. " I0 }7 K# v; }7 A0 E4 ?) U4 U! l8 n, @* n0 R' 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。* E) |: I& D7 ~$ `5 Y5 M
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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. ; w1 \, C4 C' i( R
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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。$ d9 \# \1 j; b/ ~9 i8 r; p3 R5 M
2 G3 g" ]! a' I1 L4 X$ gYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , a$ Z4 V# c5 X) {" @/ C $ C2 h: v- G) }8 m7 j& H5 w* q. ~( B你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 j$ w: z, T9 G8 e
$ ~* S2 g n" t$ z- r M& o; s- kHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) z9 D' [# b- |6 H' _
$ L9 }% U4 b$ D& k' L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。& Q: V; ^2 H# O9 `2 j" `7 q. F7 O
3 J3 [, v( @2 C- TFor 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. "/ z+ `" Y; O1 b: q/ e- q
2 }2 z4 y, G P& ^5 z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。( P/ y! e* w" Q/ I0 l% M' q# _2 m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - C; r: W* n$ L" H w s ! ?1 c4 n% v0 U% O# J' j1 E“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 w3 `3 q0 s7 L( p0 p P0 P' t! G$ H, B
, Z4 W( W: J, s& rLife. 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." 4 w, N5 p9 I; f, r2 k/ _8 S4 I % K# |- h2 N9 U0 [' n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”。 + G+ m4 Z7 ^- K+ o) ~, p, J* K/ l. ~4 ]" }( j) Q; w! \
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