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：' ?+ P- I9 h3 s; y! m8 @% ` f# \2 W
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生命就是小甜饼：9 |7 }" ~) s8 A% \) 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.7 M! e& l) u m- T
5 O2 V' T9 b! X: g% |/ M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 o* ]; I* O0 |5 s T4 @6 A0 \+ ?: p N2 U/ b5 Y8 m
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! a# F$ t+ ^" @6 ~5 X6 b( }+ y
$ r) @* D0 v- C9 G, u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。& h" }0 ]: [" r. h" h, L
$ z+ X1 h% q& n) ? R6 qSome 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.& M* @- [, ~6 t
" _% @0 d, e& k7 X0 x& }. W+ y7 d' U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 H0 |+ ?! R5 S& P & x0 J) q" b: p: QA 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.2 y2 I3 O. S9 p5 |3 z' |* D
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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。& m) Q. y1 s* g& I& |& V. {1 S
" k4 r9 n# w! p H$ D4 L! }$ t, G# HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + l( u& X1 i( w; T9 V - K4 n$ O/ S& W) _" B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。0 e2 @/ S- V+ {+ _3 [ O; G
8 Y! V2 n% r( }! D9 E. h TBut 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./ X/ B3 o2 B! Z
3 a9 ^9 }8 }9 ^- f3 X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。 6 H+ z* Y f. W" d$ C: _+ D4 M 4 J b/ \# I& X: q( ?- @) OThe 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. 2 X: `: x" |; v# r _/ M8 r1 q5 Z3 b$ R
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。 . B3 r: l& T' K3 Y$ Y8 _# }% Z& J6 k 1 t2 G8 u6 x* |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. + H: ^7 ^; N3 N) T; \& O 9 z, Q7 F e( m, `* e, }7 {2 o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。 ( {/ L D% c4 O7 r1 K" W) Y8 y# O8 K& [" m( {" }( K4 U7 ~# Q; ]$ R
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 B9 F# _1 B2 b3 N! J5 }
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 ~0 c2 D) V! N$ G; |; H1 i+ D
( i4 Q% [3 r/ q' ~& ]! w# c5 mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 @# ^; m6 C) W" [ 1 g$ `) }3 G' p$ @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。, p+ f+ w& c0 Y
' }; l3 W7 q) b# A1 n- V- \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. " 9 _9 B) C# E: m; O' `, q2 C; F% O) i2 a ^ q
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。5 e$ U( X C% j
( V2 q! N& f: {' p. N& f- VTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ N1 _2 H$ q, p/ E/ \" K$ K! C; f* m. U- h' q
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% g2 n$ d' f+ Z. q _3 o$ k
" M7 Q b$ M* g# [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." $ z" x8 M" [4 I, V6 ` , P% b$ D; m. D& x$ c- b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”。& _& a) u4 c# k% g- n5 C; ^
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