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：+ M1 F* D% |/ p: \. T
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生命就是小甜饼： . E, R0 R9 R+ r4 qOne 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. + d) f! ~0 b/ E& J" H2 d 4 P3 b; H8 t# n, u- x/ ~/ 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”。 ! A- |7 }* C# v! e# P' n5 i/ P0 ?4 Y, h# }! Q
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# z8 j, ?7 u& }; _
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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。 ( R+ T4 ]4 ?% R8 T6 H 1 B1 ~+ \4 ]. T& MSome 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.( k, h8 ]& n N& j! 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。 ; ?* w2 j8 E. P" Y 0 Z$ X+ G8 i, Q% A3 V' fA 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 r1 F* N7 T ?: Y% y $ `1 p1 F) q' y# X2 J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。; L- M2 m" n) J0 k
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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. " B, N+ d$ j; T5 {1 J; Z* I) C
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。 ( M4 R5 Q' W* n. u& F9 z: j1 T& |$ s4 J h+ y1 y; G: z
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.- m9 k& Z8 n" ^5 b1 I% f; P, c6 _, U
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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。 8 @2 e- |" p1 \; j/ {7 e! k% j 0 e# P I' D& L5 y5 l; c3 ZThe 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.5 U+ {. Y; W5 k
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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。 & l; i. {8 B7 X: L: s) l7 Y 0 C& e& @$ ?9 h6 E/ G! @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. & P8 I. c. O/ ~* j9 Q 1 u7 k5 }. I4 J( y' l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。, l( A$ A6 b, ~- x; I
0 h- j( @+ K) k) u& xYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 C2 C7 Q: H. y r
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : \ w# `' `4 s4 X! F( Q7 _& m2 E) Y" n* t: i$ v
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ {+ o+ _- ?7 W+ w% N, B
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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。$ N) y! ` U7 e1 g
& B8 L; D- K9 B3 v/ r0 W$ n+ hFor 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. "( B' L) u$ X' E
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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。 . \, S4 F6 a H. U) F' x 9 [. f4 `: ~6 x: B; BTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 C5 i+ w9 z; H3 j& r1 y: f1 R8 M0 w" B
5 I' t9 A* y4 q7 c. o# V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; b- m l& ?" U* g% b6 Y) U8 M, k8 b1 C
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."% u1 b' D' g( x
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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”。9 @( r! S; b% y& p& a: u
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