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：0 F. H( [- C7 b6 w5 N
$ v( \1 i7 \. N' U m& J生命就是小甜饼： - p8 z6 @% ]* x+ l- M# J" uOne 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., G. l9 }# A) P4 V
" X( ~5 B9 \/ _9 |6 T7 ]. F+ r& U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”。% }) z% y) T$ I* @! [
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. d# \6 q+ `" J6 g' |9 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。3 `: ~! z5 |0 [ r
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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. ' a" K4 t( L" U7 u0 ?* u. ~! p: y0 R7 w& j
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 a3 e) W2 [- Z9 \ 9 K; }2 U/ l! |( x4 H0 mA 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.4 K. J) f% K; z! m" T
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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。; p# d# H1 B6 T; ]9 } |* p- M6 r
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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.. @6 u: K4 ?. v t: _. m) B
+ e% Y' H5 |3 w# e8 v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。 4 g" Z1 n* J% {3 g$ D) X& ^( c0 U5 n! d$ \# ~- m
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.+ z) F, M$ V! A$ r( C. l0 X. w
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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。 " E2 h! H! z& e0 [$ V- v4 t5 V& U8 b. c( O& {7 F. {$ m9 e& L
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.# a/ ], f# v3 l' k0 r* n
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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。* X$ f) Y& F" Q6 Y8 x( Q" r" i
2 m. M. s4 s8 h0 B+ c* _! K5 aYou 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. ; R' O+ Q) q' }! _5 F# R & e* b3 I9 p2 B/ H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。) s% V3 C; i$ o ~+ y+ h
2 g% S+ V3 N( [( H8 Z* zYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& q9 X0 {; y' a" P) X- ^8 M
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 E9 F: ^( a- L9 e/ b
& X! ~9 A0 Y+ Z1 ^Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ i' ~7 X' _% z5 r
# X& q' ~; [1 k% R1 Y7 l: l/ y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。 " R/ L+ E7 |; z$ H* d7 p/ x9 }8 D/ o; `8 h0 T2 R$ ]
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. " - E( k5 K9 y/ h# d2 J/ i& g # p; ?) O+ H7 l! W- h2 d3 W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。$ {0 \4 z' q% j
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% ?& @7 b1 B2 H
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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。 8 D- ~# A' m6 l# h* ], K+ y $ @7 t- O2 j7 A4 eLife. 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." ; z4 W' Y1 Y. c* P' e% d0 F5 O" A! H& H/ ]/ z1 k
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”。 ) r2 A6 O+ S6 ~4 Y5 m8 ~$ r7 l+ k! S: p. L
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