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：( w3 P4 |* g z% v2 y6 R( R
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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. ! V+ u6 V+ I; |& a; V; u! R5 u9 ?7 w( P$ `, Y
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”。; M4 t6 H( B$ I: Q. \
\# O8 t+ j7 }4 K) q0 \$ AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., X# \4 q% v- U1 i0 k# n
: `5 `1 ?" F8 j6 |* c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。 1 f+ V) o/ A# D. `" k 8 M, ]! y- P0 vSome 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 i/ {1 x% {! H6 c
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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。 1 j. M* M) w4 v+ F2 x w- @ 5 N; q( ]6 U$ O g X0 r' `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.6 i: S2 D1 T5 l- W1 h. @# w V l
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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。 5 a6 J9 d* O- c6 E/ D# v; \7 T1 z5 j" K& E3 o# W8 {
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' @! F1 U+ P1 n
, n# L W/ I$ L0 }8 c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。0 Z, c: T* w7 M# y
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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.: R( [# W/ M+ S* B
: O# ^2 v* p$ ~& z. a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/ u* Q1 q, O& l& t2 a u0 P% U! C( h% DThe 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. . ]* b6 o. K% V' H1 V+ l$ Z; g7 @3 v2 t
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。# d6 x& S, e: J4 L [2 h- j0 @6 r
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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. / ]- W1 I; y+ E" x \, E; k6 q
, @. k. K8 G. w# M& Q# C) g4 x( c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。 ) x; U# d* |& I5 i0 q% E% P; @# Z" W J) v: ~6 ~
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. p+ F% V; o+ V! v B
! k( c% M0 t1 E3 o' W7 D你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 |+ n3 j! v. L9 A4 o+ T! P( s , }7 B9 U g. k0 h" xHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ o1 d5 l. s5 O- E# t1 L; l
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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。- |6 _! G& B8 n+ H: r5 E
) x3 U+ |. U: V2 @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. " + ^3 J ?5 V. c7 U6 b5 g1 y: t/ `% k
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。 * \! P/ [; r0 I$ u9 u% `( E/ t$ m. Q# a( y
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 p2 x& | T9 p& T8 x: E& c. e. H
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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。 5 O% F( y: A& b% v2 W l- V0 `2 O. }5 L) |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 W- w' _8 C$ F: B2 r; O
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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”。4 k4 {' Q" R H) K/ F# C