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 ?; }8 t: ^. f+ g; x
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生命就是小甜饼： 4 \' u- j% x; ^5 f6 QOne 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. t! i+ E8 L' t& h- M8 |; P. B" n( Y, \/ k h# T
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”。/ D- w5 {) n' p8 l% M) h: V- p
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + ^" Q6 D. F6 G: l" z' x. I: o- {: X
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。/ d- j1 [& M/ ?- E2 h
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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.9 R7 f( d Q3 V3 {& j
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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。! u0 h* U3 O# T" @3 o
6 K5 ?8 n4 d2 V0 Y; H; M0 IA 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. ! O9 [$ B* i& c, d2 N% S* q* L* } X" i4 f
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。 / C7 _# P: E, K; k 3 T' Q8 z: K: AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ a1 B, `5 T" a5 R. I# V+ O% T0 q , z+ l2 L& n9 D+ H y; G* `+ i' R: d9 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。 9 v3 J r! j, [ 0 U6 R/ ?2 D, H0 B( P$ hBut 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.9 a3 \8 N, e/ x" a) ~! c
$ v) J3 y/ h/ ]9 ^ N1 |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。 # a8 W# W: {+ k2 ]+ s: e% h3 l: N 7 Q) f; `+ s' @7 ZThe 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.' ?4 F- N' Y& N3 v9 O$ n
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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。 P! H7 i. G) {* f5 s# g1 ]3 f. |% n- G$ w2 f6 V# p+ h$ D
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. 1 L& M( o {. Y3 g" C# u 4 P1 W% B9 O/ y3 a7 x/ W! 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。( M$ o$ N z7 }5 n' l6 t) K7 {
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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. , n8 ~$ r1 i# U5 t& m. T ' {/ v+ h' O; p, D& }, V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! }0 R: Q9 e/ w" a1 d2 W9 y
) {& R% r. R5 a2 m/ ` h" W' BHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. J6 o) }1 @9 l* K3 H: M
- L2 }' x8 b4 Y* j& I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。 ( r- p% H; G# v4 ^: F6 F8 D7 G# N
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. "6 T) T5 ^, ]! d y- l0 W% m
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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。! Z; @% ?4 S- U8 E; f* z9 ]
$ g, ]+ K! q9 f" R! t* r, a# PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 P* P! p3 e. K7 j+ w ) F+ p: f. j' y/ k$ _“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % q3 L! ^, R3 E- L* } ( ?/ F* n" r" o- P3 N& DLife. 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."+ ^! Y% T- x4 f/ l* A: c