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： " M/ @% x! r1 S" I7 W/ M i$ I3 ~' Z' y9 k' `
生命就是小甜饼： * M; A, _2 s0 g; K/ 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. ; s# `" i8 ^2 K. S2 C% q( J F# j- q% M3 J: G: r
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”。 u m- }# m; R
( ~; K- e( s6 R' P5 V1 x- R) n/ n8 hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; U. y, \ o& Z2 o
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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。& Z4 D1 B# A) F5 u4 `! V
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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. 0 }1 A- y# G' y# U( Q& p) J1 n! q) V! ` o
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。 ; C7 N5 j0 Z2 G+ y- F) d ; J3 Z3 a5 R' W1 k0 |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. 9 g( }/ ~/ c. N3 U8 I8 G5 Y ( V3 i/ E! j" w% ?. N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。7 b7 }4 m( f: p7 d$ q
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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. $ ?/ \! o' w7 g / ?# P, h- ]5 B" U+ O9 ~" R) f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。3 v, m, K! K' u3 f" |
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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. 5 \! _/ j) p" l4 |+ J3 B3 ~- ~$ n6 F; i# w, m( `2 f/ z
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。 5 R8 K' ^; P4 H8 i9 m; s8 s- W6 p2 m) I% w# o
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." i2 o+ w4 y1 |# m) c. }
# ?/ E/ M/ x' x( h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; i4 h! K% L) G
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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. 4 s2 H5 S8 D/ a+ n; s' }- K# c% D4 ?6 w/ u7 C7 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。 ; F' m2 @2 P% M+ A& j1 G4 g3 G/ S' Y% X0 ^: e7 u. f
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ! m3 c5 i0 B8 O( p) O; b6 h" ~. q3 v! W/ `% s
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 U( b' m3 l. @& D- y5 y4 k + W' o1 S: k8 }+ M, B# lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! q- R, }- e2 @; J6 m0 A$ T
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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。* f6 K$ p1 {9 m( J
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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. ". a7 |: p4 _6 ^" B3 g
$ Q }, r i$ \' {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。9 E+ W3 H( s" F) e- ` H& O0 X
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 1 d# A) m6 i2 b( [2 w8 s7 Q7 P m' m' O( }! B3 w* }/ q# H
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。2 J/ F( @& x2 R. D' @
8 p- x% C" @% g7 K7 c r: iLife. 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." $ A/ r2 c1 L$ A9 o+ G3 s , Q5 [- L5 {5 O8 Q) D- b1 m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”。' h0 B# C- k6 G/ h) Y& P
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