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：$ s% ]3 ]& U; C" N
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生命就是小甜饼：2 w7 m7 c$ ?6 I0 b ^. q$ t+ ]
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. + G* ?$ n) J, }2 w+ y2 i% L6 U; E$ S0 ^& p* h7 l) c4 q
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”。 6 l6 h. B# @ S h7 t9 t! U' ]% ^0 P+ U- e" P" r
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ j) W, E; [0 {& P, Q
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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。' J7 I% d1 ?: d. H! y7 X4 @
. j+ O1 S9 e. D! ^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., z% h6 `3 k2 X2 n7 D2 f) s" F
- V" Z! p- q0 c" i3 x3 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。 8 w! c) q+ o# N" A, q* V% t9 Z: L2 _- [% |: z% P/ `% V
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.7 [3 d& X8 K( u" W6 L8 e! D
6 ?1 n6 _4 M1 }; JWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. R H9 C4 E% P9 c/ e* \& I* M d* Y8 d2 t t5 G
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。) o7 D( a4 a- r0 R9 Z! Q
1 U' h4 N6 p K" ^' ^) x kBut 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 `: ^2 E7 `6 l; Y+ t* v4 E. T$ C6 v- ^2 g. P* m# z
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。/ ]' r2 c+ ], V: ^
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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.& Q" | S6 f2 w* W/ U% b6 u$ I
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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。 # x8 J1 b9 j8 F- t5 a; _6 _/ u# t x; c. V
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. ! `: }" I, L4 n+ p) X/ O
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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。" W) z3 P! J1 f
# r: z' q# q1 N. G- J6 aYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & p0 W' n* ]6 w- h1 x4 [ I . U3 \4 a& t7 y* b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 t. T. X/ ^' g$ ?' _1 S8 {
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 p2 d' {( V* I% U# d$ h
4 L P( n7 T$ F. h# I/ N! s" L+ WFor 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 k9 x/ P8 l9 Y! N8 |/ W : a, k! D* N, t t3 _) i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。, B( F0 y9 m+ v9 w! L5 D% _, H
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ {- Y. G* S: |4 X6 Y+ M- \
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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。 . E* n* Q) b! F) B) _! b7 P 5 F7 `7 J1 G2 Z6 ?% x& PLife. 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."7 n7 {0 B2 \* C1 q1 `, s+ g
2 W2 {& R: Q- O+ T: U2 U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 q6 D! ~) c8 D u* L# p
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