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： 4 q9 C5 W( {7 x7 e# U* x M7 A+ A2 n+ \5 q: X6 m: l
生命就是小甜饼：. e( s' l4 u% g6 q
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. * G+ q4 y9 z+ \& E7 H, \( C 9 y) p- i/ N" ~% [! V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”。 * K+ K4 u9 Y8 X0 T- d |, J) u' Q& [! D
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. & Y4 k4 F6 O5 T& K1 a" P3 o 2 w, i1 V6 |7 p% A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。 ( W# D3 ~* T# e0 h n; h6 v% W5 l% l
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. ) E3 P& y% l5 r3 F8 |9 T! ] 2 W3 J1 X7 Y4 f2 o& }/ k# 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。7 h+ D% \; x6 I1 y7 n/ m/ w# u8 P
7 k, e# J6 {+ l+ }, x/ sA 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. C9 U% P( t/ j6 c3 u. u! N, |
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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。& b/ v/ m: h" k0 v
7 `6 v" u2 f- Y" Y: L" [% x1 TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ C1 [. i) h5 L$ D: G
* Q+ L; C* i4 I, B; F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。 . v" D. s' e" X ' R" ?( n$ @% c3 d. b5 y/ c9 RBut 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. - x! }0 o' U. u" r0 A- u. M0 W& }& V: g7 i$ c7 @% Y
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。# m5 `! G' [0 V6 |5 D
, s; B/ f/ w/ J, w6 pThe 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.) F" r8 S- B/ o7 C k: L1 w
6 h5 [# V. S0 N- H6 j+ N, M& w' hYou 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. 4 Z' W* p% O6 |0 R
; V* k. R0 f/ e1 K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。 & V) i7 x) p$ u; k; T8 G7 }3 _+ _5 S* R' e" _' Q; M* N
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. + o5 \6 W8 ]2 f1 ^' C/ c! S6 e2 D3 k5 h& M% w" o- k! {, l
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ! P Q8 W a) t6 X8 X / y$ M4 x: q! Q. GHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - J1 S1 K& K2 i2 g4 [% c& z* e. o$ n # m9 O' |2 Z2 u) t( 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。/ C' R; l) v+ n6 s) D2 `" h0 s
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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. " # z2 m' c5 o; _5 H5 S) n, ]) Q9 d! M3 X) v: Z" ^3 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。 , I$ q3 R2 x# |( y5 v0 a& C: I0 [. p1 |$ Q" a8 q
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) y; k$ j9 K3 a: o$ _ # E7 u! x, l- S( ]3 ]& L5 z0 }“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - m8 X; R( W7 f3 ` 5 r+ n% N. g" X4 W7 |* L! 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."1 x: T1 {' C$ z; A6 z% `