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： # p+ s2 j4 x; p0 p 1 w) K; y8 \* p& y; Q2 H6 z& p. s生命就是小甜饼： r( o: l; a 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. 6 C% s. H" E+ [7 Z S: | , L0 j* n' j5 g$ o [4 X& o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”。' u+ Y' ~1 f( n* u9 X. n
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 T' U& y( l5 T/ }8 J: n
7 G, w: \5 b, @+ l1 r2 t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。 7 H B0 K& ]0 P/ P) V( }# K' ]) k! m9 i0 p, c, T
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, m" N( L6 s
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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。" l! W! ]6 z6 A
3 x; Q3 W% L3 }9 C" wA 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.1 i6 \" `, o( P1 ~3 D9 C0 n
5 w" S F) _, a2 X1 O7 N( C5 K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。 : v8 L# @$ J2 ? S ( g' y& w& t: V7 `7 ` YWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . P+ [+ V; v$ @9 d+ v$ a8 n. j g' Q$ W& x1 K# R2 s
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 D# b6 t. o; d. U# x
, r' G6 M& _# s2 F* YBut 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. + O f) N5 C9 S' I9 S- I . n& G% Q( U; Y$ Y% B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 A5 u X5 ?; W E/ {
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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. 2 A/ W, ]) x* W3 d; z0 X |. `' M. `/ X
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。5 @- O* ^; N0 z# |1 T% ~$ H! T
& i! R- p K. b* k: [* O) \0 oYou 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. 1 j$ i4 C5 X, Y2 P! |1 s7 ?# O \1 S6 U; ]
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。 ?& x* g+ Z3 v; A1 D. S' z3 ]* `1 @7 N7 E
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 ~; Y' N; y( e
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 S, }$ T6 Z$ y. t. o3 ^" w# f* m% N& d3 p( Q
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ j6 ^( b, w7 F( V) d1 g
2 j# n0 T: Q2 ~4 Y5 ^- V# V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。: x F; U% T+ [" O; V2 W% p/ U
0 L" ~. A- `8 e( t/ p) jFor 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. " $ \( `, ?9 u# n( t2 ~( g& o/ `" z( R% E6 E
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 U2 G1 s" Z% v6 D; x2 t8 N9 x" ^& _7 Z" ~4 { Z! _
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.$ f! m2 x& F5 i9 a+ i2 N+ X
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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。4 C K2 G+ u$ @4 i0 H: x( B
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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.": b# O9 v* `1 V* s8 T1 t$ Y6 P