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：. A" X: T8 b- U( L, D- I+ T+ m V
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生命就是小甜饼：0 _3 \: [% M$ h) A. {/ f; b6 }% r
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.# e: M0 j- D( w0 f
2 E5 x8 o/ O7 `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”。7 O% u$ I: ^5 C. s) }9 N
1 X* `! T6 a. d! v# G2 }; {If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ b% X, y* l; w | K, H1 n* V
/ \+ M& d p3 H9 K# 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。 8 c# I! V5 \! L. q3 W - V; o; y& C8 y* [( R' h! q6 @! WSome 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.+ p: Z" I: l6 M( a" x# b
0 Y' k3 Z/ {4 x. Z: l. [8 D6 g# ?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。 : w. c# V6 c! B; O. y- u, f0 v+ Q/ r7 W* P6 V
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 g. c2 ~+ ^; S7 J' u9 f, n0 m& p$ A. x2 ^9 g5 j
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。; b& C7 B- e; g. ]: V4 Z @
* `/ C6 r* M1 f% BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 N/ I% O2 ?3 x' w4 I+ R7 O. @* E
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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。$ D& t( Q1 Q" ~3 D6 L. K& @. q
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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. ' p6 x$ |, @9 V# ^$ {) V& q; b& T 1 Y8 [; c$ u: ~& ~8 o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。 2 S6 o5 I5 ?7 O3 @6 C- S) k( x0 J) F
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.* z9 `0 d- I4 K
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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。 % E$ ~5 A3 g# x8 A) c7 N& x! ^ 1 X: }7 ~; q- w- g/ G! X: f$ B1 wYou 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. & T0 ~5 E( e; y/ x* A" W/ N7 F, g0 n2 I2 d7 K
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。9 U& Y$ ?& `3 A% ~
1 `) [9 k: h/ n' z% v9 [You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 l; R1 G; H7 A8 n: k' C3 d- S ( C8 X* J, |' {% W+ s3 j你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( _" b4 M8 G: ~: N; |+ [
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." u% L* [& T3 V, I# E" q
. E8 b& L- I, [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. " ' n9 p* ] N9 W9 A4 y& d$ Y5 z+ d! |! {" 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。3 L5 w& c2 P* o4 k; a
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # G# ^6 E4 y; F& ~6 l4 p( w& m) @% l6 ^) a
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % a) V4 c) E+ a! Q5 p % d+ `' u6 j- j$ x( \' J% v) G0 KLife. 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."0 E4 X- Z" I' h' I1 M: C
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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”。1 {; \& [& u2 u9 K. [. J1 D
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