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： $ G- F$ O y8 X# H8 x0 t* d, A) ^( p$ R- M2 u& _% s8 g
生命就是小甜饼：, ?. f3 j) T) B- e0 ~; W
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.! T4 _4 |$ Y6 j7 {. `# Y C5 y
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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”。 , \' m3 Q4 q0 }9 y A2 b( T; V8 d- o1 X
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + X$ k; H. r, S: ^4 [1 P v) Z. o) a( s7 n* ?. r( @4 g
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。+ s' ~$ C* C8 p7 C/ X
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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. 4 H1 @+ j. Q3 l+ a" u& I& ^% B! B& ]! c* [# U, K* m& k* H( c
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。 / c' v9 Q6 ?2 D2 |3 @0 d/ p% O6 n7 i3 S9 ~4 y2 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. # g6 `( k9 v8 s) l; W% L. c1 g7 Z9 h7 R& U0 j; c/ l
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。 1 \3 s h& M. }$ N4 p , I/ `7 t4 r' u0 jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ e9 v: s% Z/ f3 W$ g# f
1 N9 x h6 s9 Y H5 V H! Q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。- P2 k$ N. y- l8 d- B, e! a1 b1 C
" o2 F- b3 {& c+ b- X: Z# uBut 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. / L ]5 \, D$ ^" y6 y5 U' y( q3 T3 }$ ]0 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。 ! f& t4 _$ y3 T1 `8 b q ^2 v% W# }) e( X, XThe 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. ! {; H* t S3 e( d% r6 r + q& [ B% ?$ B9 Z Z0 J* `* C% o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。4 K2 R( |' U0 y4 J1 R( R% V5 e
5 @2 c% n, c% `+ d1 p6 W1 u' TYou 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 S& n3 d) G3 f5 {. ]& J
l7 Q- L2 }2 E# K* D+ 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。& H* Q: g @- w
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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. " k: Y, L6 _8 a; V, n: W7 d0 j$ w! n
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 / N* R- Q8 j5 r4 N4 [; b' Y" w/ r( ]) H r, s
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & Z f' d( t2 [& {$ L ! I! l( P w" j: _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 v: Z! n6 _% }4 L # C/ I! U% r5 G7 v- p% @6 o+ r, E) @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. "7 R7 [3 O$ V( v* v c
6 Q9 i$ j8 u6 Y' _$ ?7 f" c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。 8 n7 b6 P: Q( p2 C% h& R9 F 5 g- V5 p% Y2 ^; k& ?+ ETwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.5 \- g0 x* t% T# h! G: Z k
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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."2 ]4 d! {- b( F- {, `5 k, c$ N4 t