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： - v; M4 u' H, c D: b3 g & \- u# K3 P7 L9 g生命就是小甜饼： 8 @% l( |% Q9 g$ B, o9 @3 V8 ~3 ?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. + S( \6 C B% K& h/ v( S) { " a6 _5 ]& V# q# t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”。 5 [; u Z- h6 A5 l8 [ ( U- Z7 |. B w; s" O- IIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' L' t0 P' b i E% O. _0 L8 p! k: L2 N: s
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。 0 w0 |5 b6 E0 e' ]# z % n4 o7 D" u$ p/ d( ISome 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.* c: Z+ X: U" N
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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。 # [3 L2 N# h. X3 c4 p9 m+ s- f! |/ {5 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.' g7 S7 d B% c- o6 S+ S' d1 ]
7 q8 Q6 O' c+ m2 c' B( L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. j9 i" i) L
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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. " _* ^& P% p+ W7 i% X * f ~: y- p6 Y0 c6 ^6 P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。 & e1 J3 Z' l. f& E" T$ G$ B- V$ G8 U/ M. S& x* L* c
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. : f8 G. w9 `: Z* n# A, @! S& k! z) g7 H0 v" u
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。1 d& l3 k5 C' `2 W4 f9 P- z! [
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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. : i4 m% V+ f% G, I ' n% q( K B8 N# v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。 5 F2 }% u/ T ?) w! d! k& x1 K+ W' e( N* Y7 t* {$ W o W
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. - Z* e4 s# ?" A! K' B3 I' Q
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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。 " M; F. p8 ?9 r r4 E9 t# p 8 N4 F" W0 @: }! R% V% LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. / `5 w6 K: J# c7 U( N2 d6 r( N2 G0 X0 m: T& J% W
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" j- J% m2 ]% @/ H( v
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 e- v& H$ n$ J8 f f. ^
" i- M( s6 j" ^2 o9 |0 f, y w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。 ; U6 ]9 p# F+ a: k& k' q. ]# t D! s
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. " ~* L% x2 T& ?& }7 x4 _ / g0 X% f1 T# q1 X: t2 l. g" x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。7 a' X! L6 {$ ?, C6 b6 V4 H. n6 m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ h& V# h) p+ Y7 ^( Y, s1 f& @: A
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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。1 L3 v: I9 d* _( S4 H# g
1 F: T9 A1 n+ s; ^& |) rLife. 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." * J& c4 G9 [6 h) Q7 M/ \7 Z- k, ^7 J3 ~- n; |' [1 O6 P' S' N
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”。 ?1 R2 ^8 K5 q Z7 ] N& h
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