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： z( Q4 j" y' Y5 n) F
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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. : F% L6 O5 w* j% n* r' t& T7 M6 ]& b8 D% o1 i
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”。$ n) N0 F5 l1 y2 m
! V6 N7 a6 z' }: |% HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' v& i" f T. O! y, I, K2 C( _$ \
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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。 + B, s3 B y L ) h! a' O& @8 J) N: t/ H w6 g0 YSome 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.+ [% H) @5 z5 _' ~+ F) r2 R Z* t, d
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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。 # V/ \' F5 [0 v% T8 L4 F% @8 d0 s" B" [, f* r( k
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) Z) q" |. T. \ : L0 E, |& z; @8 ~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。 8 ~% W7 \ f p$ @% B+ R0 ^) x* ?' y+ x8 m7 W$ V+ v
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! Q) K, o; A0 Y6 C 2 L+ R4 T5 V2 L" W, `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 O$ t6 R' l* [% ~( ~2 W
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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.# o3 ^: G( T, u! m* l
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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。1 W9 O* p8 }; K. i
5 t* q5 @; ], m f* O4 e* F8 y- nThe 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. - v7 k F9 ~) f : [2 B' }" w9 p9 s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。 9 |: }! X$ U- h% e " n5 Z+ `4 s1 fYou 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. 5 c+ ]4 W* }# D. y2 ^" V$ B& ^ & ]. V- E$ D. |/ V" E* P: |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。 " x8 D4 @' W1 |% n3 R6 H7 y( \8 i/ |! _
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 n9 D5 \+ X4 C2 Z5 C9 a
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' Z$ V4 x8 [! Q# U: j. x$ ] S" i5 s0 s( rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 f+ k! J# P9 T4 s5 w8 U. L* A, N& n f1 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。& U2 M( G. q" |( E4 k& h6 ]
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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. " ( F& T' l3 R- R! f1 J4 r5 `: M& A' L5 Q( m7 h
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。 2 c% j" U2 S! t1 e) f1 t J( Q" x) x
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ; R9 J1 n) g* A 6 [7 ~: f& u. K* U, J“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 0 J B; z" C0 {- g/ t% d% j- T- r' O* V! n* S
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."$ C. D' i$ l0 J1 W. e% n$ w) X" w
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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”。 - W4 Y, X4 F" z9 P0 y2 G0 p! h" v% e8 y/ Q6 V- x; C
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