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：5 U: D* j5 u* g; F9 ?1 `4 P8 c
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生命就是小甜饼：& X& |- G# o" M
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. % {" j b0 u# Q4 y3 e: [6 Z6 ]3 f
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”。2 R/ y- d7 t! m
$ Q( y8 P$ ~, Q2 I. R6 ?( \If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' b( N( s( p' m0 D& D; S
2 z% d( e4 e$ Y/ ~8 z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。# X2 e. o" p! _6 _& \: k2 H
8 U, i; @9 Z4 \4 [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. / \& Q8 G5 ~. V) f) q& j) d0 @$ v" U7 ]3 j) u
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。! n- V4 y6 a2 x1 }! l
& D8 n9 U; U. v. L' R. bA 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 q9 t/ ^' i9 n& Z* I% O( M
7 Y$ x/ M- L& J. m, i! n/ ^4 J! Q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。2 a- [+ B+ m3 w, I6 M
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." q0 x. Z# u: {& f3 h2 o4 Y" b
0 l" R" C4 `; j9 Q; a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。 4 ]0 E4 w' ]+ f- c4 m: L3 Q) j* A9 G
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. ; x% l: i5 x% G" u( H0 Z+ z6 l& ^8 s/ u# |8 P. f, R& I
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。/ U4 x/ j$ T5 n* Z3 G. T8 d
- ^6 T8 f. O" |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.4 t7 a6 b- \) n
1 @+ b! J: c6 I) c& V6 h; Y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。 1 [ ?+ r& U' v, |: K9 e' N, j8 @4 C$ @8 S4 Z* D
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. ! U: q8 x; d+ d' j9 b+ g
1 _1 |5 Y/ D% K+ A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。 ! M) _0 R' C d$ `9 i _) k# {! J" E& r9 g- U# q& Y
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. / Z% |, S5 P5 x 1 O! P+ i9 F: N, I; k3 h你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( C+ b) J/ m" x, o$ @" O
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( G7 {, |. B* K& Q' v# Q9 `$ u: y2 I' H& c. i
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。5 t% G& W" |' U2 Y# Z
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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. "0 y# }, h n7 Z4 N; g% n9 a# @9 O
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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。 ( B0 p2 Q6 `+ S8 s5 ~ n) U " D; v5 C( D% _# fTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. * V! i+ Y. ], @7 `" W/ I* k# u' E# v4 O% y2 D) N1 z
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。( f) t; L0 m3 d8 _# }! ?+ w
& Y* v6 n3 |& s7 zLife. 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."# p3 H& I% p4 A0 K