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：' \# d( G$ J- f) G1 L
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生命就是小甜饼： : B, w# s( C1 o% T( t, A3 TOne 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. 8 p$ S6 {. Z# U0 G2 H7 @% z ( Q* D0 M M' ~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”。$ K7 U# h. o2 Z. g: |# ]
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( ^+ D: B) s u# W9 x 4 y( J) b+ F% s4 ?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。5 ^7 l, [8 d9 f0 j* V
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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. ) V9 n7 n C0 A* a! o . M M2 u! J7 | z, R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。* \5 T: F, ^+ ~* \6 D2 v! V
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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. 9 F5 ?4 w' T' U6 b . e- G2 {, M# `* i- V A. k& Z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。 7 E ~( K. P) P% a& k) l' X- G: l& p2 ^" s6 W4 ^, M. a) e
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( v6 O6 y$ b) Y. o
6 G# U9 G2 _6 B5 x2 X* e1 o3 J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。3 I3 ?4 `7 ]7 u, X
( `$ |0 C' a( S% O$ Q5 |, ?' uBut 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. $ [; |* R4 _) d. p p" S ! I: e1 L1 a; w- @- x0 n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。# B( H/ Y8 o; P+ c. X) ~3 F
% [5 d4 v$ X3 n- t0 c! z ?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.9 l! w8 x$ S- I) {; P
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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。6 m* |6 Z' D* W8 G% `7 _
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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. 0 [0 P" k% M$ {- r
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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。1 x6 Y* {2 K [- j
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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 N- ~4 t: G) d/ Y$ {, K( g ; d" ?6 Q) Z) w* b. K你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 P% H; J' y, E/ A [5 q3 F2 O' Q9 F
" W6 D l$ p tHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - Z" n2 m5 U5 i8 {7 l9 m C0 d+ ?8 x9 p# o/ a) t
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。 & I+ d' H2 Y$ W p 0 z* x5 Z* s. W+ K( \' R4 t$ _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. ". q8 e# q' k" S+ Z" u \# G- I7 d$ s
+ t! ^& d0 @2 e3 T3 j2 [1 c6 O% {1 L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。 " x( W, \6 w7 E1 N h) T ) ]9 s: o4 c6 I. `8 J1 f3 hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! y# i( \- t1 c' G
, m8 c, }6 h) S! z4 I5 a6 H" _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( U/ z0 _ o' O5 y6 l3 q8 `
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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."( ~2 g' t6 h2 W9 J
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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”。2 H' J+ u1 Q1 X5 k/ G
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