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：9 b) T9 H. o) ^$ X4 i5 d
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生命就是小甜饼： ' M( q) O2 J+ d7 m1 ~' UOne 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.* ^( @5 F' z6 |2 C% Y* o6 R1 W
7 X B) \( s+ |0 Z+ i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”。" z! I5 \9 y5 |' Q0 ~7 }* ^7 E
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' k% M- ], n" G B' y% y
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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。, x% }% k, L& I% X! d) S1 I
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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. ) R) j: ]( `+ K7 w7 k9 N& H' J2 l& J/ \5 E+ g5 R
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。 ; o' u: d5 s+ n( Y: Z# W2 V" b6 v3 L; V* Z9 Q
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.0 ^7 I4 a N3 j" A& y/ ^
& N, W ]% I" G# L3 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。 . O3 V/ ~$ O1 o) ?) p + Q, P+ f( i0 A% Z- P! tWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 1 d4 v/ w2 G& s) q' J ! A9 H8 T) y! N: ?: A; ^% P5 @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。' b2 v5 e, w) g9 D" _. v
( Q X: B2 i- L3 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. J# d" {2 M7 w! j$ }% V/ E* _5 l2 k( I# w2 {
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。 + i5 k6 P* x$ p+ }: u. z9 y7 e7 U7 k' J1 M5 [) u6 |
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.5 v8 `2 |5 K. a( I3 [
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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。 % v& m6 N$ G$ l# I9 O7 o1 ] 6 w' n, e+ V1 y9 zYou 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. 8 `$ _* h: ~7 h$ n$ m) m5 ?/ G, }) k! m
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。 9 ?; a& y+ } r4 S8 ~ z/ j2 q; U& Q8 M( L$ W6 Y2 u \# q
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. * {! T' }& U8 j4 ]( d ; P9 M/ c% i) L1 N! A你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 & t- d% v: N& Z& ~ ! g5 ~& \, p& i; ?Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 A" C$ F. u/ }6 O' H. E( v: n0 Z1 E6 p% a6 j
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。2 x# X8 ?+ g5 |3 m
) M+ D- Z2 ?* j& h2 v' L% uFor 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. "' F, @1 \4 \. q6 n- [& @1 H# p8 U
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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/ J* h' A* v! W; i! L
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ a9 k5 ]8 c: u" S! J2 @ o4 E! ?
7 e7 [' E# P( K6 I“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; }6 o' [4 T3 Y 8 B7 Z* H! N4 {' |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.". Y2 Y$ B6 \! J- t$ t
3 u' \- a' M* a/ N6 S3 W) k4 P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”。: }7 H& g) o. `