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： # ~! f" q$ C! Y* g3 Q) i& B / B" T; {- @0 m+ m8 u1 c% B生命就是小甜饼： 3 E5 T4 v: ~. z/ eOne 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. i" C: t) d4 {' ?$ d; ~ ; W* Y4 j* P2 j3 g. ], k0 J6 A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 K; d3 P1 b2 S6 R
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % @5 Z8 e7 N+ C; S+ K$ C q' l5 J3 J$ D7 ]
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 j# ~. c1 l; N- |( }0 U
0 n3 ?: @ W& J* e( I6 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. ) U4 ?4 _. N/ ?1 W3 G2 @# |3 k3 M3 o" V% X
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。 ( a. k7 N9 G) Q( g& N X7 S/ J. m: D- N4 z# T7 j
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. + r! v* A2 t3 H9 {1 K& s$ h# [; A6 w3 w! Q
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。 8 x" d+ P% \8 E ! Y5 {3 S8 |" _% ^3 c4 Y0 U8 AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! B u; w$ `8 B a1 q6 Q 3 m/ i4 X* L: Z' _+ s: j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。2 A& p4 K5 S+ Z- [$ \
, u3 w, H2 U }9 j& f' 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.0 E3 `! j8 S1 W' U4 ?
( }7 a. T5 |3 s$ O2 c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。 2 }' N$ N! V, R6 S; R* k! f# ], s$ C' V& }
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. ) w( Y# x4 ]' l+ J. r+ {. q : i3 Z. ^. w. K+ Z2 Z% U. f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。 U3 p" u$ R( M0 m$ A0 F# B
1 C3 X& O1 _; ~2 F# P: j 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. j p' R. }' L- `- V/ b+ A/ R) s
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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。' i" u4 a0 Y- e! @% y6 Z: n
6 R+ M& H8 N* jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 0 M" X Q! a5 c9 I 0 n. q6 E& U1 J你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& s4 p3 i3 i j
/ U/ z. \0 \0 e0 i4 vHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; c/ L, p$ a6 G7 _ a) K2 X( T1 V# W P0 B. 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。 6 p7 [8 h4 C/ `% L" e0 f 9 t0 o; P% T, c8 Q8 }' UFor 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. " F9 b5 ?, l1 m' r- _3 k* `4 ]- n : n' z# U- H4 L1 R' [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。 1 r* i: M* S6 A8 S0 O4 m2 ~. _3 e* D ; v% Q2 ] q1 X) @Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 u6 V% Q5 f8 }2 I- X5 X* N( r k0 t
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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。 ! T! R# ?. S4 w* f2 \7 A2 l2 }. l+ ?. S. M% r/ D4 J
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."6 f- l7 I. u5 n5 r! {+ ?& R" H