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 ?) Y# e# o! u! |% u6 K
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生命就是小甜饼：) g1 g, L" h f" ]5 f
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.1 k' y2 T6 W* d5 U$ `
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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”。/ ?% E# y+ ~1 q% L, F
. _) V% y- a) R* [4 G$ V% f P" [If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' B7 N" ?' F6 \8 a
; Z# X! r$ ^2 ]' j: I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。 ' C! k, m9 h E8 p ' ^: h6 M' y. F7 ZSome 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.1 q% u* E5 a3 R# O, i' ^* W
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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。$ |" `# f( Z; l: u
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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.' ?8 l I. {2 l, _! @: y; J
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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。 # G& j" B5 y6 [) @) V t2 V4 ]3 a# N! [0 J
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.: k& V2 j9 G" S6 h3 a& H
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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。 % `) x/ R4 U+ B/ M; V4 o+ G 1 C' J' t( {* m- ^1 V! iBut 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. , g/ H- r2 ~( |& G* Z 6 W4 D, d* c& _( Q) P5 |( 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。- M: k9 D4 X- K! j( i
5 L1 w$ \9 l F3 _# }, fThe 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. # I% t! |. u; B1 |9 ]: [7 x. x8 P" m# G& f& ?5 e4 ^' V+ }
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。( m8 l5 k8 B: A4 h( d7 X
. K9 V1 n3 k2 oYou 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. $ H5 R' M/ C" s- ^7 d
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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。6 @; p: S) @! }- P8 S3 d) r* Q
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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.) t4 f4 h7 z4 M
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* V" s# e0 ?1 ~: z u2 T; z9 \
% T8 O+ q+ i8 i, Q' }- {Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. k% F; `, W; c( v4 A2 M$ u
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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。 + m. |9 D6 |2 g6 b# } e) U# {, W# c, P, Z2 f* E4 K! |: ]' z. o4 h
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. " 7 b1 H- }/ ]* R) e& O5 ]/ n! n {! x, \1 B1 S- w3 d
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。' A! K/ r+ k5 t4 m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 r; j' n0 s, k( j9 n& j5 p ( p1 i& L+ U* @4 l3 w8 d“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 & W1 r' n& _ C! V7 Q , v+ ^) s" E. J* BLife. 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."$ W1 I/ z' h' a) \6 H