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 j/ I/ W% n0 S* x. x! O! @$ P2 K. y% H4 a' S# e
生命就是小甜饼：- C8 _+ O1 n4 O" i4 G# S
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. B5 e' W6 Z9 W
6 E" d1 _+ ~, t. m2 D* x1 h+ ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 J) N1 f0 t" d; h2 s* M# U% ]2 a
: c7 E! A8 f& r: c F& J& }$ }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。# T1 Q# n% a( N4 k1 _4 E5 G: g, w3 E
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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.; L) r1 y5 `1 f
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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。* {9 D! P( v& s7 j4 M- J
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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. " D! d, V( U- M: |% w [5 Q- o0 s# n; f! s7 r0 Z
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。0 k& i8 F' M2 d; ?) T8 c5 j- [, G8 z
5 u9 D" y& l: d: w% P) yWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 C; V+ E$ d# d1 K: }5 D; B2 H' B1 ^: `/ a c
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。1 B" O4 @ E5 ?: r
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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.% l8 L; o' L, x+ G
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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。6 S5 T" p2 o3 T
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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. ' \/ a+ G' I. n8 ~0 \ - ~4 s, N* n5 F. ~/ t* n ^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。9 C; O( V& ?" G: @; {& d) J/ l
: r* J. n4 R) m+ 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. 6 h: W0 P2 D5 j7 Y/ N. I. B; P
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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。/ Z, ^5 K' B" E$ q$ ]* `
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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. ( T; s% ^; J6 }+ h% a7 u8 k3 n4 v$ q: C& {, }
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % a k7 o. v4 \0 H# D0 A% J! U8 G, @
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + m0 p1 D0 q- n/ f+ V 8 Z( Y7 m( }* v1 x# l- E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。 ' b1 @( c* t0 y ) z) o! m& h( q% k5 K+ vFor 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. " [' p! H# c: B6 w/ Y0 X( n, s - H8 c8 l/ K+ v3 W, F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。 : {* R; c) C$ f+ l" s : Z" J) |/ ~, f4 k+ LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. / m/ W" s7 k- T _$ r) A$ m 6 e z1 _% `3 X“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 1 r! @ t- }" Q0 B0 D; n H) X' m0 X3 r8 u2 ]
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."! C. l8 x) e! q) S3 n D