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 N' r$ m T S% ~9 {* A
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生命就是小甜饼： ( H+ E6 B( I, [8 v# J' j; [; H: rOne 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. ; g, ?7 t; r! }) w0 S4 {* p6 r7 w. l+ c5 o2 X
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/ d0 R2 x/ j4 r+ d# |. I6 {# u! z1 T0 W" I; I* Q9 {) y
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 z" w2 ]# Q7 k4 [3 c % e' f8 C) o2 |, [# n. s7 G( J& M3 \( ^如果你拥有了小甜饼，一切都一帆风顺。如果你没有小甜饼，生活就一文不值。$ Z; c# I5 ^" Y I
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Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes sex. At other times, it was the new car, the biggest contract, the most prestigious address.% s8 n9 A, p& ]8 A
( n3 U$ C3 B2 i& N1 k/ Z不幸的是，小甜饼总是不断变换着，有时是金钱，有时是权力，有时是欲望。在其他时候，它是一辆新车、一份数额最大的合同、或者一个享有声望的通讯地址。 1 ~+ I2 E n6 S4 r' p* Z) F6 C) ^; H4 T# }* X, g
A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate cancer he sits shaking his head ruefully. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid.! v( T {1 V S" l/ ~
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在他被诊断出患有前列腺癌的一年半之后，他坐在那里，悲天悯人地摇着头，说：“长大以后，我好像就不知道怎样生活了。/ _/ t1 {2 A5 b
9 A' x) R. p4 r- E5 e3 GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 W. `" `5 {3 h9 r' d5 e& w % `' V) }5 q+ O) i" \) L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。 $ G" S/ i( Q U _4 e8 D9 G6 c 9 @! |' h% ^, R9 l7 B# EBut 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. * s3 ?0 @ @+ a6 I " _% X* D# z8 j: U6 a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。9 d# C" g4 B, h z2 t# S8 S
, Y, A9 X/ R5 A" D. gThe 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.; k$ {! e9 Z* |
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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。) c/ n# k4 D* W A
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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 S, m( Z+ i+ |% D' F 8 w% f" A7 i( Z; c- R. M+ v* t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。 ( B- p/ b$ H% }3 I+ x# V# o2 M6 ]5 _8 `9 r" {2 X+ T' n# k! v8 q% t) W* D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 9 g& q' e0 G/ e/ |, a0 j. s1 \8 x6 E7 h& Z. o
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& I+ p" c) C6 b2 \4 `( Y, Z/ O
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # S8 J: x! w& |& b! n! s" D ! O R( G' k. O7 z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。* q/ I, V5 d' O8 X* O% l5 `
/ Y$ Q6 Y7 r8 dFor 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. "' W0 Z8 d& P3 D! \
; j5 D7 x. o5 S |( K# h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。' S* s( E- P( t) l! \
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ N8 h& N) o# X9 `- X& R& B# f4 A
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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。 # o5 \, N3 ~9 ]% b) I2 ^" S! J) R/ t$ l& {+ m, n1 ?
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.") y- r: Z. @4 e! _' a! [5 e