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： & E- M6 h& C# {8 M- J0 s1 f B$ }3 \ Y0 d7 Z, ^1 ~1 V
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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. ' |# Q- ]$ H! V5 k" G( @( R4 c/ S' I$ g8 `: 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”。 1 ~' ^8 Q# l/ P O. Y* l2 ?! |0 f: C: L0 W$ [0 i
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 N# V8 O/ T6 x& _, `3 @5 V
# R0 V! U7 }& w+ P9 n7 A* u5 Z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。 3 N9 i: N7 P `; h M 8 x/ [% ^' \" g" t B7 Q& xSome 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. , a' R: m1 ]# B) h+ H- ^' M2 n) C3 `: w- l
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。4 s- \# E- |, n
4 l+ o& ^0 V6 Y- ?2 J `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. 3 ?4 u1 i* V9 c+ z1 y; U* m& L, M# l2 X
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。 2 T" O9 j4 u$ x$ C/ k( [/ l 7 q+ {! g; s! o! `6 d0 JWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / S, K* n& w5 A; g5 s0 D # R; Q3 B+ g( j4 Q0 F( u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。9 X7 J$ u* ]1 r" L
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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.& ~. K3 M% l9 U2 p s
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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。% G6 y$ y5 H( ?6 H: {
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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. . R9 ?/ `" p. i" h6 f |1 _ H# h8 [ v9 _
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。 " B3 T7 \% k# t7 l2 S$ u9 @2 ?$ Y! s' P/ h0 W
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. 1 x, s; R; c; U
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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。) ^" q/ a: B1 r0 E$ L
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) F6 _: t7 D A {' \5 U2 o% A+ l7 a& ?8 N
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 A) q0 l3 D4 c) c* o- K% g9 r& u7 [' F' c6 L2 P; u4 X
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. / [* ~+ H$ l" S i; Z- O) N: Q2 E+ f+ R3 g/ T$ h
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。 r" q, I" q$ X# n# d* R2 Z8 H
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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. "7 d( X3 f1 z$ U2 ~
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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。! F% ]& `: Q8 x( |. H' z
$ N- o' \! | m$ O! P* Y$ [5 ^Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% V5 u; z- g1 {! |- E2 c: a
$ R8 j B. h# c5 U6 m/ z2 Q8 d“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; l9 o- J% B6 P6 `. n4 p
! ~2 z+ Z& c3 ^' kLife. 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.") C/ f3 b; f8 F* G4 _* m1 q1 [9 k