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：# s! t! R/ Y# _( n& N
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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.+ ?4 b/ }9 ]8 x4 F% f
& P& S& J6 P% 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”。 ; d/ m( \# @3 u, N 4 C/ H0 U8 r# w( ]) N. k. \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 K9 y* O/ O3 {
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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。 & m2 T7 ?# K, f9 S& \ & g0 K4 O: H+ S! V3 ?/ SSome 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.7 \+ a7 ?6 \% y) w" I
1 w9 b4 e+ r0 F1 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。 * H* Q! c$ B5 D 7 t) w. V. b* g* W1 w" Q( J& xA 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. : L% W/ ?2 |; n- j2 j/ G# ^# p7 T9 G. r
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。) T* l. \0 w" B1 @2 w# A1 Q: t
/ f" H$ y2 @& o+ M/ r6 |% k" j# MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % o% k/ M0 _" G% ?; V+ ~* U6 n/ z5 ]$ {( c6 k, b0 m
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。( o0 \ I/ F S ~' O- B8 O5 v8 a
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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. ! m. }# ~) z$ V% R2 ]5 B) p, e# v+ S
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。 1 c) {' c" R. k( R! L & |% ] c9 s5 i3 ^6 V J( F- a! kThe 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' U' _9 x% ^9 [9 j ' H) T- }4 U" `1 b/ ?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。 h1 j' z8 r4 B/ { ( N# K, L( S* `, q4 f( R3 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. ) D) _* k7 \' D; Q" ~* v" f5 q2 S- i( [
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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。 M5 [* z0 O) B
" |4 n' l/ x8 M: [5 WYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 6 C; a8 p, o& a7 p % U6 s) x7 r" V% y8 ?# F! N0 W3 X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. ~2 D* o& X' F0 R
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; e% p- L. ?5 r' g, B; m
8 Y5 L1 w1 w! V0 b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。 & Z7 ^% D9 A' O8 H9 y, z8 y; R6 g9 Y$ [ Q9 }; f
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. " ( b: S( |) k; Z3 @6 x4 T( [' ?2 l) Z' b: K
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。 6 E3 l' @ @+ x % }8 g) ^3 s2 h I' G3 [* C) GTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* j. F4 p4 M7 M5 x+ n& v
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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。 ' [2 t/ D. g L4 L " E; A: X9 |. m$ [/ R$ [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."/ J1 I- K/ D& W, `- a' s: ^( d, @2 {