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： / U* U$ y; g+ ^ # R3 z2 o- v2 L生命就是小甜饼： 8 b) @. e% B9 z& a8 N1 Y, eOne 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.% _' O5 e& j. F7 @7 V
2 B! j3 B% Y5 S, p# X6 {: J2 }4 X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”。 % m5 U/ U+ d7 ?5 H& Y6 r9 k& E2 j5 o$ x! M& Y& w
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 |1 c) Q7 N! T& M- H) b 9 K& B# T6 F9 m* v6 U1 }7 f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。 ' E% R* G$ L1 m- u0 r2 X8 }" D" A9 T; r, S5 |4 J) I
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.2 Y; K, [( q3 F
' D* {6 b; Z8 g B* f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。 / E# ?( j/ X& Q; \3 N 8 f/ K- O0 A: P. WA 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. 5 v `' s. k1 ?1 C' f 5 e$ h ]* G3 L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。 W; E. T8 q+ v/ f. F* E4 F e
4 U4 d; B8 }7 ^4 s6 iWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 x2 `% C I1 g6 \: Z. P/ W3 o2 l' A9 d$ q # z7 U: T: h* ~, r2 E3 G/ m# r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 c8 s) v, g8 v% d
3 H6 w6 o4 l2 GBut 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. 7 K" n/ g( |( {4 r4 I4 a / G) H5 z; {2 H# k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。 * G9 Z" Q$ C$ T l7 l : x& X6 h& W/ ]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.. M5 o- }* {) l/ U* L
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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。3 {9 c# x5 }$ _4 p7 L6 D
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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 i$ Y0 J. @, P( c 1 u5 I5 T. y1 Z' ^# m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。 8 q) ]; {* @3 P. F" K& Y8 `8 K2 |, [5 O( a& n& }
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ Q) M! F1 Z3 O. a9 \8 C" G& w& B 5 o/ g: t, z- ?6 m5 s你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. @% j+ E" f4 t' [& z( h1 ~
, x' X+ N- S/ P; K9 Y( RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 o( U6 s v1 ?' W( H ) s$ c& S& k2 m9 j; n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。 / l; `8 J- y" D+ Z( J- r1 [0 ^: }. w- A9 L/ M1 f
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. " 9 [: a, h7 c" y + [. ^$ v, B# 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。 " v; Y- R, A# T! j; D f" `; {5 }; n0 P9 l& h; K3 u
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # M# |7 w$ i3 R " r2 ^" N) h. m7 H' G8 v“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。5 I) c/ m6 x& N& D; d0 \: f! h
+ Y( H1 [& W: RLife. 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."! Z4 j5 o ]4 K+ X8 W/ p4 C