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：1 Y! ~" p; w! O9 R* d {' D
- p! t$ P0 Q7 m6 M6 y" ~% O6 g生命就是小甜饼： / I- A0 k( J- X0 QOne 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. 0 Q! b4 j. C' ~2 b ! o" p! o. o1 a8 G) J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”。 9 z# D6 o" G, c; E 0 q$ C9 g9 q; I# ]7 e5 w2 b$ d5 lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; g0 ?# @6 q2 r/ i5 q6 l! A
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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。 2 T% P d5 K# f6 a9 Y6 p$ W; k( Y" q5 S& ~9 ~
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. ) _" R$ N1 s4 u0 \: N/ F 8 Z6 D, U5 }: r! p0 {! t q0 c+ \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。8 e; I( F2 i: G3 g% ?- I) c2 S
2 s4 U7 u( U8 `3 U, n2 [5 lA 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. z2 A& k& b' Z8 _6 ]4 m " R% e6 i' A# k' [! {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。 ; p$ `. R9 f! @& R5 I- p, g, J8 V6 j5 G8 [
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* C1 d. y6 S9 m% W
* }) r# R0 i7 A% ]0 }9 l1 z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。 8 n& c* d; J! w* ~$ u( o! e; @% g" b, W7 E% V
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. % B6 F$ r& U' y" H" t 4 |* }3 Q! g3 p6 J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。& `0 Y$ u8 Y- ~7 W" h: d
7 x+ `3 d7 u2 VThe 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.+ Z- K8 g& ^8 w% r2 X
; a ?0 j+ E/ M4 M' D3 b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。 & |# ` B5 a- a+ I & f1 T# h, l. C5 ?' _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. 7 R. k9 P# \6 {) F4 ]# ~5 y w9 ]7 |% m, `+ N
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。- V* I w" P7 r
$ e, l$ n0 G2 X( W* i8 H0 s" tYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 2 H' z* M& j2 r5 r9 K. i 4 T1 e$ t# H# |你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 q. p+ L5 N+ b, s% V* a) L% r$ W x. A S' c( ~- r/ e
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 e' [! X. q( o ?4 d: b: n, Q- @! O# {: B
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。5 x) P+ b. E! ^) Y
9 i3 z+ f* m: H6 X L. [( g' vFor 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. "; `6 Q* r) b- r d6 C: V
N$ F& L4 o+ M/ ]; H7 p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。9 _1 T1 \3 F" r' s8 V/ K' n# ^
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." [5 P8 H4 W; |, G1 F; P
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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。 ( V0 p2 z$ n/ U; F5 j$ V- L1 l; r. C' W4 [0 S. W. C
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."/ E' Z% \+ E! f
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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”。 : b8 e4 k! b- G$ m; E6 @3 w: k* K9 j, }; U6 Q+ q- B, x( G
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