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：+ h: E8 Z/ k B1 X" A
. |( Q4 M' g# U+ t生命就是小甜饼： * N' x s0 z( {7 YOne 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. ) R" z- A, k( j% J B1 [6 p; s0 J j( r% F
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”。4 d; n3 j5 d* k7 D, A( R: S1 r6 M
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# b [$ I h6 b; g
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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。5 d0 k* ~' e7 L6 Q& ~4 ?
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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.# ~; O+ u/ N A0 |7 U0 t
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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。 4 O) F7 T" ?- k2 N1 i' t1 q8 H1 Z5 J$ \# s( }
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. ( D9 O& }: H% ^$ V& I4 Q/ K 3 v$ X) t; X Z1 m1 E9 M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。3 N; `+ r* c& f% {+ f X
9 U) h% b1 W: a: n! W1 k E# ^When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . G' i# j$ y, R; `6 N( B1 @) I" a # g. G0 N! \- R3 E4 |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。 / m# B8 ~6 q | 3 B9 e/ [1 e$ J# T. s4 a6 QBut 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.# l% w i" k0 Z" n
* c2 K: u, u# m6 a# M- I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。 3 A3 {+ ~3 L/ Y o 3 C: Z. G) i" [- ^" V8 [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. 6 B- d4 I; K) J4 _9 X3 K& ]4 C" U, |( d # `% ^! o# _* F9 A% \7 z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。 f* T, L2 T) r6 S% x9 K" L 0 k; t' q6 e( }9 H, o1 U9 b9 [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. 5 Q% f; Y! P. }: w, E
" H" I! E. [" R# {You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 7 m8 \2 y. [9 Z3 \+ C0 N2 s3 Q . [* B0 }2 g9 l3 c你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# a8 ]5 L) L8 t* ^) O4 b& N; u$ d$ c+ Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 E M1 l5 [, J1 ~: q( [
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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。 . L3 o5 F% V f # F. C5 p1 l: ^6 _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. " 7 s& _6 c, v! m/ \. M1 H" o* |7 c7 j
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 A8 @ l$ n1 ]' I5 u; |3 Y& u4 Q5 Q7 w( Q2 }9 r6 X, h1 ^6 a Z0 B( \
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! G" U v' f0 |2 Z. v
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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。 3 k* j& m5 b/ L9 S2 m2 A; F- Z4 n5 E) M$ }' |. V7 G% l
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." 3 b, h. `( b9 l" x) t/ u3 u 7 B* j% I& T0 o5 y0 Q+ n. O4 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”。" \. j5 V- D( n, O/ P {; U6 w( ^