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：" g5 N& a4 P5 k. [0 G: C9 w
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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. 4 k& w5 {7 O2 C, ~! T4 m: E- M% N7 X5 r, A) n; e
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”。 ( W: M3 X& [) r* I8 W4 ~ j b- @' S
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& b, W* B8 \" S) z/ P+ W3 ]6 D
% D( E( Z" V" 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。 3 h, L1 G8 A8 v3 B/ n6 {; x; u
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.4 k4 k- C5 @; `" K+ b I
8 o c, A) K$ U$ z" B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。% R2 }0 I) ?# I9 i% ?( [
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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. ) J$ O; d+ x% d$ t1 v 5 \/ Y! o* G0 |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。) H) d. x( d1 F/ d/ n# e
9 [; o( P. J( O! m* j+ H: ~0 L- RWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 h) y% d9 i$ s* i7 h9 T( w" S8 v4 s6 P: Q$ \, F4 f
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。 f% O2 B" }0 R* Y& H. q
3 L0 _6 `" s; x: U8 YBut 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. 1 P- l# a, w5 \9 t5 z) I- _* ?. _+ H, m9 N: N0 y" I( Q
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。 5 O! T1 J: C/ \ \" t" X: Z) m: N! Q3 Q8 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. ! J2 y$ k( s8 d; g8 r$ f: O0 h$ W # v( i' Y; }2 w" x; a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。! [* t% E5 l% D$ N
7 k7 _+ ]- D P# VYou 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. ) F. z4 O' |8 P. b% j4 N9 h( s g F
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。 8 y1 I) T* Q/ Z4 X0 U, J 4 f3 o' K/ b/ V% `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! L1 g' b/ z' i, V! z
% D% \% T7 A3 ~! g: {) W4 R9 I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 z/ ]& }& `2 {+ K
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. * ~! M# y5 G$ U# h, ^) K6 Q+ G7 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。 ) J( w, a% p) t: Q6 P0 E3 i7 r2 W a& q# v7 G
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. "2 C, b4 P" O* p( J8 ]% @4 K8 ^
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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。 % W6 a- h" {1 ]! F$ Q9 n j6 f7 Y( D' s. a
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 ~9 d+ m, C% 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。 # r9 B# W6 y6 ~: f* i% D4 \: D$ D! y
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." 6 z* r! O- D' m7 R" m ) q7 e; I1 k1 H% ~6 Z8 M6 [/ R5 o: I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”。, P7 ?; e/ \ L, F
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