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：& U- V2 l% E! q9 T. ^. [$ i
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生命就是小甜饼： * S) n4 ^- ^; n2 GOne 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. : _3 F6 w7 J. T7 @1 P9 s9 Y - P" H. | {! O/ t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”。 ' s5 e l9 Y3 Z* U ) \$ g1 l& `' o0 a+ ~4 M+ ZIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 I1 h- j1 @! h3 n3 }$ V
7 W0 p7 c+ h0 z$ V8 N0 i5 v- s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。 ' P' Z, \7 N6 f8 F8 c( ]) b' w" V) S: f- T5 x/ i
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. / ^1 J+ \1 ^$ v1 V5 W 2 y0 B! ~9 Q2 p/ f- ]* [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。6 S5 u7 A0 C5 w6 u* i& m
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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. " L% D7 r+ O7 j* _3 ?- q( [ 8 H& J; y; r1 b, W4 ~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。" J/ Y& x4 h3 l% l5 j5 w
+ d0 U& [7 S7 B0 ~, A" PWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: w1 S' A- g7 i
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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; p+ c, q/ G9 \2 G; C
( d5 c: O6 U/ FBut 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./ i& T, B& s/ C% p4 A4 W
7 I3 g8 |/ w. F$ P( Y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。$ \# e, u- z- W- D r8 j# _9 ~+ N
# Q7 z' O$ y2 t0 _7 K! TThe 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. ~0 ]4 w$ R6 b8 c. ^* Z . b1 ?+ q2 W" H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。 7 e. \4 Q6 ^: a, @% [6 s# v! M0 a& d3 c! P5 b, z/ P
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. 6 p) R4 c4 s2 w; ]1 ` + w0 E, }7 D; f3 Q0 G0 V# p/ ~/ 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。4 |( M5 n6 G2 S6 `' F( O" }5 w, |
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 e, ?, @/ y: M6 `
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . {/ c! i# Q4 `+ |8 F8 O5 D 6 z5 c7 j6 q6 m, ]Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 0 w6 s2 F) c2 G) P7 o, N' {& @7 w2 z/ W$ `0 a: O/ k& q
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。: Z$ w; ^3 v- A1 ^$ j
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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. " : n/ r3 N' W; j, F' ^# @ s 2 F2 V) O: W% v% m: n" T( @9 A: V4 C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。4 R) b7 n' I- @$ d, P8 r
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 X' I8 G& {0 o' A' H2 U
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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。 & r2 c. v9 x! w0 w0 T7 S6 M6 z# Z" [$ c4 j! k- \0 N- o0 N
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, d; I0 S( J, S* h
9 [; x( ?# w5 c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”。3 H+ e5 L. b$ Y
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