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： . u8 P, T) @: M - S" R' }# J' m; S生命就是小甜饼：. Y9 q' [ m# f2 i, ?5 W5 @
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.# N2 m/ Z5 P1 b; c) D
5 W! B6 G$ [$ Q% j2 g4 T8 _% K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”。 " F+ c: {3 U- p8 b 9 |1 k6 ]2 A) ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' q: k8 u! C$ @7 L
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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。: b8 ` g% y6 [0 e2 e
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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.: A2 J: g! X# p
0 S' k5 I* d2 f* h7 E0 I! W& K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。8 i' \/ X/ }* ^& `/ Q7 I
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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. ) C: q$ O9 Q; [! _7 { 2 |- k. @. o. }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。/ m% |( q$ V" G) F9 f( }5 S4 @
+ M: s7 N$ N; O1 k; t+ SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + w8 ^0 q+ ]: u4 b $ P4 E: B7 [/ 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。: l3 O& y9 O# W2 S9 I
4 [" b/ R4 a* `# J$ Y) Z- ^6 LBut 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. 6 P4 m0 F1 u* Q3 X7 }" h F S% T: V' w# @* g# g+ W
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。" G8 e3 W( w/ @8 q* v( z! u9 ]5 q9 r" g
% B& M$ k2 ~' y( n8 jThe 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.0 t. Z& X& t" B( Y0 Q
; c# {: G% {6 S5 s$ Z$ S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。 % A3 o- x7 o; d4 j, l" n, ~4 Y+ W7 g$ V `% f$ K# ~
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. # ]: g6 V9 Z z; q
4 A/ a9 B3 @5 H6 b* `& H1 t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。 ; ], v- X+ ~% ?/ b4 j1 } 3 q/ j8 L0 i/ qYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: k# h" v- L! s! p: c* P
0 `9 {1 ]! N( _ V; N, |6 wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # }8 ] ~' }, o, {& \9 a9 H; `! f4 B# u& p: m
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。/ i/ `0 b7 t5 ]/ r2 @2 [' f
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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. " # W+ P; N8 c- J/ \5 A9 V* d 6 U8 G* R5 K s' D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。/ X% i1 G0 K2 k3 {- x
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., d1 b$ F$ G5 o2 n
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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。0 O; l5 I$ |; \# T$ M& T" Q
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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."! o+ L% m0 g. A
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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”。! K: V, v9 d" W0 S2 s