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： 1 M0 i) t' a2 l' f9 e7 s $ ]' X0 ~9 Y9 N' d# w生命就是小甜饼：! I# d# \/ J+ c# Z
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. & s5 v6 l1 N' u/ ?! I 4 \ `, i7 I" M% b, l- a* ?# n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”。2 A- W; r9 x$ y2 D* X3 V w2 f
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; s8 b l; ^& {* }4 N/ i & G' ?* j- Q9 C( J3 J h/ _/ q! Q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。 ) D. N* Q; A# |& v1 ^2 G( l! n F- S- H- ^
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. # ]; d, w/ {8 o0 S3 ?7 l+ w- k3 T/ o6 P3 B
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。 # x9 D, J# q8 D8 m7 ]: @7 i0 b+ n ) A$ x( I, R; C* UA 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. 2 ~1 B9 t( \6 {) s6 n. z( l7 t, M ; u/ B4 h4 P! t+ ]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 R$ v0 R4 R9 U ' b3 X9 g+ j: M3 T: @ f, }# w2 VWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& J) A! [: A; c5 e( A/ q
" {; p" l. f' V7 n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。4 D/ j' F8 _% w
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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.! c1 P& [4 A( X0 m
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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。 - [$ p: Y6 S7 s3 Z 3 i4 J2 b4 j% E- u7 nThe 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.; D$ U L* x* }/ X/ N1 ^
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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。4 t/ l$ P' c% E) A2 M3 d3 S
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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. / V( O! `* z8 `; N- y ' t4 p$ t, a9 s! d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。 * Y6 `+ R2 H) Z5 T# K+ j, @3 T7 y. X3 q3 _, u; `) K5 I
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 P/ J4 W2 R3 Y) `; N5 n1 ]' P8 D. `: c# L' e
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, R$ C7 c: q7 w
& H# o& S9 n6 b4 mHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( a- B* a( J4 P) t5 L+ n
7 P4 J# r: }3 l) Y2 J& ~3 N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。 & W) p- A2 y' a% r % }3 ^' f5 u* ZFor 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 u/ L; v. q7 e% S: p3 w4 n3 l0 K4 h9 i0 q
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。# `( y' k0 f& U3 B/ H$ C# J
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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。 ! b7 w# R$ b& C# X 0 X2 F U$ O# G3 c8 OLife. 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."0 B+ ?" |$ U. ^5 h
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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”。 0 {+ G. _: H$ T, ]4 C$ w, N- z G- i" p: X ~ S6 u
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