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 ^ x5 K7 W) I, g2 ?# V G ( Z w$ P F" } P生命就是小甜饼：) G: ]8 E& W3 {4 D! ]% h8 M. M
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. " h3 M) _. n U, G2 }3 E8 w) {$ W3 [' E/ h2 e j
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”。( I/ w2 B& L2 q0 K
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: _& v) m, y2 I# t
- o: [/ k' R; ]' D1 h& D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。 1 d, {8 r# V! j. w0 |) } # M& N0 c( O. M* n& V: L, eSome 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. / Q/ a: U- n) w( t0 i( ~/ {- v8 A# ^( v: t$ B
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。; J9 C+ e( S; b) }. B, s# v# A. C
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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. q2 t5 w$ E& p9 P/ t7 K# J( I
8 Q' S8 {, T* m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。! C: v/ G$ M( c X3 Y; D5 r
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 f+ v- \. l* @1 W, D4 K7 X6 q
/ P _ U/ u% }5 U) q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 W" i( c# I# G$ D" `/ a, U+ |+ K- K( S/ C' o. C8 t5 B
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. 6 a! H7 `! ]' e! }7 [ - S$ O( F, v9 E* ?9 R/ X/ p) @! o% t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。$ B. _* y5 N% P
; E2 c. X! b$ F0 [" X* {2 IThe 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. 9 D. @2 m+ Y. ]8 w& o, } ( K; @ c- w0 J* B2 V/ M& Y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。 $ v. s; W+ ~1 H/ G3 f5 Y 1 }9 h% T9 P- ?9 n7 \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 C8 Y; \& Q8 T$ c 1 B9 O9 u$ g' f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。 " F% Y1 h; ^$ X9 @; j 1 r" W/ `/ g. g+ e) R5 W( |You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., a4 `# D; z. i; H
' v* l0 W B; J- i( X6 ~2 p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) j. m: |& Q6 V: y1 a8 d* d) S/ P 3 d7 S5 S% p# o# n2 eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! c6 v' L7 C- O" c
+ R" G" t( q) T) n0 e$ 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。 ( S* j& G1 J" m W$ ^. Q) U" O: X. P0 r1 c
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. " 0 E6 I! U* O4 O! L/ J( b3 E6 `1 x' N $ Q) R1 d# }* }1 `* N; j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) }. U6 q% E, ]; w
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 s% o* Q& L) r3 s
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。. X2 X5 ?9 J/ E8 O4 o) u
" |! {8 {5 Y8 L$ f6 U# oLife. 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." O; G$ Y/ \9 L% e, e5 a3 I% k/ M! _1 G: e