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： 1 P3 i! c# _+ s% N5 ] ( Y7 S. i% U2 @; g. |+ \* u3 C生命就是小甜饼： # Y9 _5 [) \; z2 I! NOne 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. * h2 l( q5 N( K p. ` 9 t4 ?$ b7 g7 t( D# ]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”。 7 d& q. a" G3 c2 X' O8 w+ Z* R( |4 z
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.& Y- E+ z) [' O m4 D+ m
6 e! p- {. y+ z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。6 o& W) l( g8 b; L" W
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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.$ t8 {$ U& T0 T1 {* H+ P1 ?( w
5 M2 H) }) Z1 F5 v$ ]; ~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。2 y# {4 |! a2 H( {
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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. % M( S8 [& v$ \5 W * y+ i, x. [& S4 A1 l! z& n- @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。 9 Z+ q( [6 j: e( L % r: y6 [: z& H9 uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ' p2 K$ v' g$ r: [4 v2 [" W % D& k' @! g* Q/ A3 y' B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。 + `1 w$ A% I% o " Y) y" B( D+ N, c# w; }6 K5 R( jBut 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. / Z# y" e' V+ W7 @+ C+ E+ i- w) K5 ~- l/ I+ N; W$ M' m# @
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。 - s. Q2 H! d' {+ \: x( N: C3 x' v" A4 y+ P6 B
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. 2 E' b2 j" e3 W4 S$ s 4 J% o3 a' e, B, M' c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。 , j" u4 d+ ]( [; Q5 s* a9 U& }8 \& ^9 O3 ]" u9 |1 z
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 R6 N Y2 }' R7 N: L
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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。7 h8 F) R g, P: G- f9 y
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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. 0 x; I) r S% G2 Y3 n3 U. w + ?, ?7 v* z" E1 q你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % t/ q& }3 q( R A) _# X 3 R2 A9 X& Y, y# y) fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , k! h0 I* a8 X2 ^0 r- Z - M! m$ c5 D6 D2 P8 N* d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。 1 h, {, v- w, \6 Z# U% G3 j 1 D% i& ~; h* K$ YFor 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. "2 Y, B% W' B$ N1 k1 Y$ f l; t
% ]8 g7 q. D H7 n& W# }4 Y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。 $ U/ x+ k# e. @) k; w% c6 ~ e 5 `2 N( q/ o6 ^3 S7 s3 _/ `/ C mTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 [* l& C' _" x% q$ Z
4 o( r0 f; H# ]& a) c“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" y4 G0 t R4 o; t1 T
# n0 w/ E8 n& c# w6 o8 T1 T7 N8 q% ~( h' fLife. 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." H- }. n3 |: V9 o0 F4 |