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 g9 l( |; g: T! z9 b& c7 v2 @
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生命就是小甜饼：& B( n* i% @. W. @% z8 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.2 B) Z* a* M6 L. Q: q! f
2 D) q6 ]7 D5 S. A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”。 ' K9 c: m. P3 `1 c) y3 n) {* N- f2 N3 v1 r- j8 \2 H
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing., n7 p/ I2 o+ J+ \5 }, b! h
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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。- j% ~- _( o% t: R
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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. % c O& W8 \1 f" n* q$ K 9 N) N9 c8 R+ e O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。 * P O, X! e- Q( r* |/ j2 S' r' ~4 O( O+ I8 R; r4 o! S% H. ?" C$ U
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.9 Q. h$ x) e8 v. }/ a0 q* r* N: n5 F: f* L
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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。7 ]) a( b% V% g( R9 ?
7 \$ Z, V, n' v8 R) pWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: w8 i$ M5 \9 Y j6 H! K" w
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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。 3 f% k9 E4 A, i4 S$ M 6 C/ H! z' ^, V* L& ~( S! JBut 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.& D5 Q# p. [! c' W
4 C! Z$ H3 w# N6 Y* o# ?7 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。 6 T6 B, X8 ]5 f" w* s9 F ) {4 m o$ t7 s3 U% d# ]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.4 T9 X- s1 h1 U& s
6 \% _ Q, g# B. W8 M3 o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。9 u0 z8 H; \9 D) |" r' V+ u0 S
, u! T" e7 C) D8 u) EYou 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. - V8 ], g8 u% ^2 {4 b- C . w3 v/ w, ~& e2 g" s, ^0 m8 d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。" E B$ w8 ~. F5 P1 Z
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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. 8 H! o5 u. T2 A; Y1 T% z ! w! U7 q7 S; m9 m你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . Q3 ~) F. F+ m& @* C9 R4 A/ \ ! @, o+ M. @- o; K5 l6 ^8 q1 \Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 a6 t- V; {% ~" d) q/ l
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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。, |4 m; h$ [4 [. A8 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. " " g, d: J" @8 @ ( |% u9 V* C: s/ }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。2 H' B& }+ y8 |. P$ e% ^& G0 y1 z
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , D; ~+ H2 m1 c- p* w; z) P c% f5 v5 g& d3 z0 i% x4 j% | n; Q
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ) m% x& b- U; R/ u5 g6 E8 x. i X' e3 z: V9 l1 \" y0 }
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."+ u( ]! q2 ?6 G: g4 c( q1 G k