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： " r- I8 @2 z& k7 z5 g% [ $ M" r' K# v9 `7 }9 ^. K0 g2 D生命就是小甜饼：) L" ~1 ^: |; b, P0 l: \
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.# t% B9 x1 L/ X4 C( P- N+ a4 X% O
' }; Y- J! m% e) s* D4 }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”。 ) E7 e) D% u/ X& l3 n$ H 0 \& X! v( {6 h1 v0 e1 y. E6 pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.) u0 K6 i4 z j) a5 f: y
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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。 / ]4 e: v/ u+ V( u6 C, s7 h6 o8 l 5 y* ]4 R% O7 K7 |: CSome 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. 1 y% |0 z8 A: O" t7 o6 X' C - U9 w7 R1 S( W$ b4 y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。' A' K+ \8 o1 s* t' } M* I4 [. i
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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. ; C, @: g; @5 z$ X& o4 k4 V7 `1 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。: a$ ]1 _ t7 o# s/ n1 `
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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. - e% i) G% e T4 p% ]# J3 E- v" o0 x; b, N1 ~) `
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。. C% I- d% O; A. D- y* L7 E
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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." B3 R$ {5 v% q' |5 ^# g
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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。- @. h# l" X- k5 {6 d- u9 C4 M0 p
- u1 H4 X; {7 O) T: |4 K* f. [- IThe 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. ' H6 i( z' d1 E/ s; p ' S4 `# k4 y8 @. T6 u0 A0 E5 x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。 u/ c' [% S6 w" h. K9 o
( |- i5 |3 Z6 q& U& i7 r/ KYou 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. 6 ~* J H& F5 E7 l" E8 N* ^9 J( E- c3 P4 l" d: F
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。! Q2 K2 ^4 z( Z# z3 y
% `) d5 K6 ~3 S" b# HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." R: k) S, T+ r8 |! D+ m
7 H# }% C0 v2 K5 u4 X% L你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# ~+ P8 y0 `- z$ ]
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 W$ ~0 x* t$ L. \6 J. M2 X9 y& F0 ]) X1 c6 q- V0 b3 Y1 ]
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。 9 v; e! M) c5 ?; z 7 i3 z9 q) R% M3 b: H9 }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 K% S( w; W
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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。( x& S1 H A1 W3 K' K* n# W3 m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 [: ?. D) `. {! O# c
( e8 ^, X5 ~5 i$ y$ w$ \5 l. F“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % e4 c2 ^7 I% |# [2 j4 ]0 a) D. N, t$ f
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." - t9 c. t0 g, m+ H 2 V3 s3 n) P0 h- k* p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”。. m- ]) b6 r' Y) B1 e
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