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： 5 ^+ o0 G- B2 S' a. F' ^1 b5 r! z( ?
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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. # ~ P$ Z% P: e R6 [2 @+ b8 k! \ - q2 t) M w" T5 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”。4 L& W* c* w! k$ b* ?) P% ?7 ^& [
1 s! L8 S& k& H9 KIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 a& }) i0 |0 k& S
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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。 [: y: G8 }9 m. l- y
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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.# ^2 Y3 Y. e5 c- y, n2 F, ^
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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。* s( @( ^) J% s/ F
/ y0 ?7 G2 O: l p, n/ R- C; r; SA 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.+ Z0 E0 n6 ^, E% o9 q
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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。 : Y* f6 ]$ [6 {3 t5 a 3 V0 Z" B4 I7 Z! y' UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# }* i% E1 ~: E
( D6 r9 |- } C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。 # X6 t1 _* q# v! q" K, C" K- J # Q* o& E9 @; x2 WBut 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.. W" T6 f: A6 \$ h5 d0 U% g
/ X5 n' v1 l$ S: `9 e4 D" i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。) h( J l, Q O$ T7 U
& K! p. Y. x0 }4 `( i. M2 ~. {: vThe 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.) ]! m4 a- u5 }& j1 X* ^# j
" a/ Q. p2 t& O" M; j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。7 p9 y7 T$ ^& P0 N. e
( p5 z3 n; `0 qYou 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. ! \- w. F$ n) i5 L! k 7 D. a6 G J) k+ V/ M5 E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。 3 P3 F0 Z6 F2 K 4 w( p8 u8 D, W, }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ q6 v# a$ T; P6 c+ v% w( a; g6 s- U. ]3 t* c/ K% F& F) C
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 ^% U: ~+ b: y! Z; v3 B8 a
0 L6 @& V. C2 U t* J" h6 `Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- Z" ?! k4 Y4 b9 u" H m9 H
4 p2 x! c* \4 w/ U5 l9 h( [2 y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。$ H+ N; o7 K. [2 S
A/ ~6 D4 @! r3 e, W# u5 B( 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. "$ f! [6 q* Z; \# e. q& K% i
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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。 4 Q3 w# c2 t6 O% _4 O) I8 \4 B " ]+ w! v8 s a& H; oTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. & l5 {. b5 B) n4 [ - u; W+ y3 H, b' \2 J' V) 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。2 e+ l8 Z8 l" j; ~( i, ?! d
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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."9 T( m. a+ t2 k5 d# ?9 B- y7 Q) O