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：, \2 w3 B$ h( ~- @" }, ^
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生命就是小甜饼：8 j: Z2 q5 l' {1 q$ y2 g: R
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. , I0 o1 m2 s& Y- b) H+ p ' H4 x# \! x1 P( d* l8 K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”。3 R. {- N3 [$ I5 K5 L5 L- L
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 M6 t; l3 k9 u, B9 l8 \8 `2 \ , m; Z) q" B9 |( V4 F* W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。 7 J& u9 m. y: Y ( t9 f5 l5 ~8 z7 s: B# X8 h3 J' M2 eSome 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.# ]6 V$ ^1 t( z
& o7 W, F+ v4 \& T( W5 V# }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. ; h, [& a/ {* Q( k, N % W3 I1 n, O6 ~6 W; [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。 & v- `4 y: ~$ e4 }5 b8 _8 P: T& [" [
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! ~) n5 T5 }/ f b' C3 Z& e& j g Q- 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。 ! I# n$ h. a, R& n# }+ Y5 f" B8 D4 K' ]% |3 r& h
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. , c* w6 S7 g7 [; ]& L! }9 ` D8 Q- M) v! I) G1 A8 S( y
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 d6 M3 ]/ H# `5 Q5 A, F6 Z* o
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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 g2 P7 D" K; w0 X5 k
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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. }) C& @6 X; ~% l/ O4 b 2 `# ~' ?2 a3 t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。0 \1 t1 K( C6 j8 z1 X" f9 `' M: t
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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. ' p0 ~, c. H4 S! m7 z8 j( g6 [ 5 X5 W8 j7 J: j! {; {' _2 ~* o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ U; I$ d: y( a+ J- i
- s0 Q# L2 G! I% q5 i/ JHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: L5 X4 m1 j( Q' r
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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。. u$ L( ~9 j: l8 p' q
, e; o* H1 ~. q: Q4 h( IFor 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 l# b2 e7 @ J) Y1 K( c6 v
2 f. b" _- r" {1 ]% u \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。 . ~3 `6 p2 L( R, Z' x; F8 k: y( U7 L8 G- q
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. + J: a; I& b1 l, V. M7 [; q; f4 b* O$ m" A( r( E# r
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! v. L4 b6 B6 }2 g; K! }: v5 o
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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."4 }% A" a' w) {) W: D
4 X) I) k$ Q3 w4 |& ]4 Y: t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”。 / e9 \% j* u: d. B' G+ J7 S. T* O8 K; q
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