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 V O2 S3 u& `) M! E
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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. 7 x; ~5 j- o$ l# I6 _6 j8 p& P: A; B* s; @
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”。) A2 J* F$ C7 Q2 E- c2 r% H
: d. w+ n5 t7 hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 2 X& R% f2 k) f& ~ c/ p 8 y' C9 a! ^6 h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。 6 w* B- s& `$ D & V2 X: t1 P9 n' `6 ^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.9 l) p2 {" r% i; F' s$ E: ~8 R. {
% V0 i9 g9 K& c* R5 Y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 l% p( W4 b2 X: `5 k
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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. ' l5 \. h, I$ C# X4 w- {/ u* {5 g0 s% i4 z: R/ J5 n
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。 / l# ^5 {% U5 S# |' f7 l0 `8 V7 Y e2 y u6 ~, B
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ]) p4 `) b u0 H' i+ g
; \- {, L* {7 Z1 Z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。 9 p5 A T: f/ O- u' _ & M' p& f; H6 IBut 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.2 R" Y1 H8 w$ o- @
0 |1 T0 H3 Z# \4 F& {, d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。7 c- Y j4 K* v/ f3 e& z
9 `# J9 d: X0 l ]/ ]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.; z/ q, z* g* `4 z( E
# \7 P9 f! Z6 K3 ?+ c5 H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。 3 Q/ V$ d$ Q2 Y! t + [! c! e: u1 C) H. [4 I' UYou 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 H* }5 \: S3 o# i& M) h+ Q f( e5 B3 U- 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。 . g% h* [" t5 H" v( s1 H W1 x1 i( @9 ]9 i' v+ }
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 5 ]2 c3 m# ?. U8 f5 Z9 o' }2 j3 n9 y8 K- L9 Y7 c
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) c- }7 u4 _+ z3 x" T1 q 0 l$ [" w+ U* M) ^, rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 [. h5 {1 _( r
7 ^, E' {3 L- J8 y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。 # \ E+ y" [# Q. c& V 8 g1 Y. Y" \* R( }8 b. s& {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. ") j, V; y9 q$ _; B r& j- g8 S! @9 s
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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。9 W) \7 A: L( V. y$ o3 m4 i
; |7 n& d ]$ {7 B! M* c1 b7 r) TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( D. L# F' P8 n& M. |
3 D% |: q& x' J* y7 j( | _4 L" M“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 H. y% E s8 L5 G
& I- M1 ]: a, Y V, y+ F/ {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."& j" r7 k: O B! K8 M