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： & Y0 G) _) o3 c% g7 ^+ t" K 2 ?/ \; B! N3 c生命就是小甜饼： 1 b$ J( X6 u9 K$ }. iOne 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.4 ^+ f9 i, X( o/ t+ h
( B/ y4 S9 @* y4 H& [3 V/ m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”。 0 C* ]; i! Y, N+ ~ 6 k- J: m8 @5 D1 Y$ y; N& z+ OIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 m# R) Y8 x; @; ~: l" U
7 a* P- a; L$ f' 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。 % O; Z3 k0 R' m' c( o1 Q6 J! P$ h7 t 2 d% f2 J1 Y+ r" aSome 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.( ^' |. G0 L% \, M
# p) x7 Z, p" G) a# s; I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。 : @6 ]# R! }, ?7 b5 W$ y3 m1 A( z8 b; j; m7 R* _; x
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.; U7 K+ T: z# C/ j2 w5 V/ C' h
( F& ^; b3 {4 z' s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。4 i2 _5 j/ v1 ] |5 b; F7 z% u0 H
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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.) V; o; K$ _ p4 }: T0 i( I5 b
/ Y! k X" P6 y# q* `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. 3 m s4 J4 e( n. H8 u 9 M$ ]$ N; E# @" |# {. Q8 K8 q' Z4 H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。 8 i/ {3 B1 L/ k" k- l! s# r $ }- b% @9 ]2 A! U5 @6 I) PThe 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. 7 y+ G2 G* |8 I3 S: ~5 j( ] " q$ L s/ F5 b1 @) g+ p. i! R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。2 N9 g- w/ @) H3 e& |; t
; y c. s* T. c2 f: C& u% AYou 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. 0 h9 b- s A+ _& I* m3 B3 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。 1 E% N9 A# o# N 6 h: f' ~* S9 }5 Q' }, X( O- `2 cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# l, H- M8 W! G% ]# Z( h; w% B' V/ _# a
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# m& {; ~$ A7 p* b8 u
1 e( ~6 m [' r7 \/ x/ vHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 ~0 @) k9 m, u & ?. C4 `1 X j4 U, K3 B" H5 Z, Q2 {: g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。( H4 Q/ n t1 l& B J
! v# Y! B2 {& D% e# rFor 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. " 9 \0 I1 I6 h0 T, V8 S / j* V: _; K; V* K+ y+ U" u2 S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。 + G6 C o! E' P& v2 J ' u6 _3 l- F8 ]+ S2 [Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 S5 d5 i3 B# A, B
0 l6 h6 z7 `( d- b7 f( F( z2 N) K9 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."# l! s. x/ ]3 e* F9 [9 K7 [
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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”。" p y y' A n# r. \, B0 |
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