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：6 F% x1 u2 ~- {* f$ I2 n
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生命就是小甜饼： * K; ~+ H: ~& g7 w# K3 N, V5 ]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. 8 ]' x! G+ I( u. o4 y0 l5 ~- K Z+ U" c. P7 k0 m
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”。9 c0 n7 l1 @- L3 ]% x- k$ K
- e7 Q. R& N, k% W: S4 AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 M. _) `9 A3 S9 \2 @
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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。+ K b- z6 q9 E* o. e/ N3 j, C
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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.! `- H' J3 n$ R. `0 `6 q
0 ^" W5 A. O: G! m0 E& k! C; l; D/ U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。* v- h2 S% C* y1 [
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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.+ C$ A P) K: I
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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。 . n. P7 \" L( |% u: \. P6 |, |. [6 H0 m$ c$ q
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " Y! V. r, J/ o* P# ]. W9 K |0 T: F& G C: k2 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。2 y1 _4 X( m$ I
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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.0 {1 Q' L4 P, O6 r' v5 c. k4 r
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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。 # b4 u4 S$ Y9 F& c+ g2 T2 f 0 y: `: {. `0 B8 @, { n" yThe 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.0 e0 K' L/ m$ i7 x$ f& [
5 V, V* m8 w* ?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。 0 d. ]1 U0 Z8 p: X* K/ _% g @' A2 R( k& U& y" ~: b
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. . ~- c; Z/ v8 E& O' Q8 D0 x0 I* V, r* V 7 r5 G7 ?- g. G/ l0 {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 h& X1 W& d9 |& A: _7 g# T p9 \, f" Z3 ^# Q2 m! g
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.# _7 }: ? a5 H/ {" K; J
3 B7 L2 \ Q8 i! V- ^6 `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 t2 D6 l+ E. q' Z! |0 v. a: A( ^
, s% I {6 x. IFor 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. " & U3 d) T+ _+ E& g& A$ H5 D. K 0 w3 k1 J! M6 k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。 : O, D3 u6 e* w5 d1 r. h2 [) x+ P; h A' j) _
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ _" y$ P& b4 g: U
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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。- A1 s* [4 _$ \) X9 r, J7 O
& l3 v6 [0 y2 v& ^, d4 ZLife. 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."" K7 l, v, Z0 n# [3 w