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：/ ?3 f! M7 l5 \6 Q* P% H
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生命就是小甜饼： ; ]2 t. a6 u/ B# t) UOne 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& B$ B6 r$ b: y3 p% h( F8 _
# r/ n) [+ m$ Y# b# i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”。 " Q+ G9 v$ X- L# S. i4 R& e) r) q+ S/ B
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 P5 E' e* s0 y9 y
7 l) p0 t) x! y( v8 n$ x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。 ) u1 s, P% d* q7 p- U" z, q) A2 H* c
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./ y, v: A$ B; U4 H
0 s" }- l! k& @- 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。 1 u" [$ u1 P( f& i" [0 K- T . L/ r* u. p7 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.. D& n- Y8 Z9 B W. R0 V
6 r* m6 z0 J) {6 D4 E% T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。- j3 J/ T9 R; ]7 ]" F
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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.: a7 P( E0 k( J9 c, k9 C! e2 p
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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。* C! V1 k1 I; K1 `9 w- {2 f4 Y
! ?& p8 W% r( X; f4 w9 ]( h$ CBut 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. $ M9 q' U% s7 ~" }6 \ $ Z0 X, ?* c1 F, r0 T+ D; j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。% O1 B' ]( c( `; @
4 V. t) w8 |9 O3 G/ @: m3 g% iThe 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. % c6 V" o7 U& e- p& W% B1 `. D6 g / W# O3 R- l h4 M0 ^. X' G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。 / F7 x: u- s! F. @) U2 t: `, l, P# k8 w6 M
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. 5 P$ b2 a; f: Z" Z0 u% G1 D
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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。 , w7 u5 j/ ~$ x% }+ @7 D# s% o# g- R1 Q8 z( }& m: g& h. _* _
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 H8 X0 ]- N3 z) J( l; \1 Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 8 t1 b) b# j3 C& Y/ E6 e C6 k# t+ P1 O2 a/ G4 h( h% a0 ]9 p2 W5 z
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., L. a$ z6 a- X! w: x
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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。 " t h4 x+ ?3 O1 r0 Y ) |" p p+ e$ R. w0 m/ lFor 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. "3 v/ v4 k5 t) ?
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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。. }7 c# \7 A$ J" [( M* R6 [
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. * W6 J1 i# v8 f7 Y- a+ X8 A* a: d& s ' B# P- N, y: v/ ]/ W“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 \5 n, |+ K" Z3 Z4 |+ R& ~3 W
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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."# f% y- A( r0 T$ p+ t" ? H. x