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： 8 ^7 y7 |, f8 w6 c! Q4 o% T- O) q0 _2 v5 f. T2 r
生命就是小甜饼： . ^/ R: V2 Q U% 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. 0 m1 O4 c' L, P+ L; u. e : g% L6 U9 s) 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”。 ! A# Y, d" Z; _$ K4 Q' B0 ^ # s- Q+ {, L$ Z. j5 D! e. GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( ~* j4 H+ J5 }' ?1 M3 v- @4 p
; S1 J l0 |1 c. }- h. ]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。 9 p& y1 [# \+ W' y4 [/ h5 P0 i6 W, E% Y5 K
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. ( b X, d4 @" r! U% x7 T B 9 _1 N( b8 C8 o6 }9 S% P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。 / }' w O; m# \- F, ~4 P0 [8 N0 y9 |$ @8 t* T3 s, n% ?# ?
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. ; Y$ V6 j- y& @. E' x% O8 F3 S& \ m/ I; ?' Y$ G2 i% F
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。 9 Q7 S' ~. C' _/ @ 2 L+ z+ Q3 T; h" @2 l. GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. : Z# T4 G) u+ z" ^2 m ]- E9 f% M" J+ z/ s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。' @4 N# }- z, a1 @: r0 d# d
0 y- R1 Y5 A6 Z9 z4 d' w" @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. 4 L1 C- R5 e9 p$ i + x8 ?" P. r' a9 i( [, G# f* s' m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。 3 }! _; k: X" O& A9 m" u9 ~ " I& i9 {4 M! d# L7 `1 [# b# qThe 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.) B) v$ B+ Z# B
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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。 8 A! M L5 C7 q/ j5 x0 \ n9 d3 _1 n; a# C, q
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. 5 p$ c. _, W! |0 j( n( J
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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。4 o9 O# a) K9 G5 c$ Q
' B5 Y+ i9 i$ V1 \% b$ |' l+ yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. - E3 Y4 Z% e# s( m8 _2 F6 w9 V" \
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 u4 B" C" n3 o% ]2 Q6 C v! z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* B- V& k; \ q5 M k! k
! B3 w9 x, c* Y! f* R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。. O; t) [9 S' g& q+ k( d
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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. " ' _0 ~% x3 x, @% m- ]$ b8 J v # _/ g9 U3 L, Q! I. z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。 + _- M% L: t1 H$ M) W5 E8 p* Z, r
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. X ~: v: P* w8 C% s
" T. [1 J4 ^% M) S“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( Y, x+ d' J- X9 S% a n* Z
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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.") g1 }$ m3 E: v8 k+ E/ M8 z
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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”。. R2 f/ W& u- `! v. v" A$ `( z
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