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： 3 T4 O8 D& b' C# d1 D; H# ^ 0 X1 A) B& W- p( g0 y3 b4 a% M) {生命就是小甜饼： - z- M5 R% |% L1 _" [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. " A- F- g1 J2 H0 K6 c8 w% u1 J7 A0 A! q+ 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”。6 i) \( C. ^ x8 m- R
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / }$ p% \) R" D. K - S( `$ w$ h* N& ^4 C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。2 Q: R; p: b( b
, q- B" v3 {) L: J$ [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. + G [: f$ G1 [0 @2 ~9 e6 F) L* q6 D- p" h9 P7 p& i% J4 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 V U* d+ {+ _) J) T/ F6 G$ T" z* w S0 W0 y
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. . j8 a2 V: r Z) ~1 r# r; ]5 |) k% z" R4 O& b% ?$ w1 ^4 N* Z
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。% B! |' S8 \0 |* L1 `
! Z% q d# G$ b2 S5 _) l/ f- sWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' y$ D; W4 R Q: v/ x
, W' ^- K4 @% n" ]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。 7 ^# V" E9 i& p* n* T5 n/ j; n7 J- t
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. # S6 P; q" `. t: n2 o/ ? " R' B2 J& w. ]& | A* `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。5 T" o7 O' r/ j; @* K# ~* I
) v! i2 O+ g% oThe 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. # \2 Q }: Q1 D$ u" |: b3 ~7 H3 d3 v7 j* F; B9 j" f
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 N) j/ a/ p0 G5 _) `9 u
" n# K& P6 Y- z7 o2 b8 G0 `. ^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+ e8 ]/ s9 C' U0 T U! }2 k, q4 K' h$ X- O' J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。 + [+ T# ?8 h) K; H 0 _1 B! j6 U/ v! Z! L6 R; u0 ~+ n6 \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.! z- @2 w ?8 |) c; U! a
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ! n& v1 X3 z9 k3 Q. b! l3 x/ u) }; W6 r6 \* Y% J" P
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." F) D/ d- d4 o* b
0 v) W' o% B1 U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。 % w) j7 O5 z+ I0 v/ J1 o6 h/ E' n/ n" `" s
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. "- n8 G. |& y) o8 P8 F4 t2 U
) P# ^- G) n& b9 U% k2 U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。 5 X3 N+ }/ d. ]' o) E : u! h! E) r1 y. [* h. p: `8 M! UTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# o( e& D: f4 K5 ~! `
. C+ o, B# t. g( v2 ~4 A$ l7 E“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: u4 l& a1 R2 T
1 M" ?: J1 Z2 t F/ MLife. 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.", K$ b" t; r7 ]" h! n