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： / _% O1 J; f( B R) A8 w9 L% o: q8 u7 Z* @2 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. # b4 [7 x9 E7 Z4 I; a# K8 e1 @8 x6 ^& z8 i3 [, a
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”。& E8 o/ C) B7 D3 \# ^/ ?. i$ d5 A
% _0 j8 c- x- [3 O0 WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( Q$ W* t) U9 b& `8 N7 g, _ " p7 S0 _/ c3 _3 Y& p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。 ; J/ ?. s' e, w 4 U* M) x6 i, a! P# X" SSome 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.; C0 ?" \% S# o) o/ j% x, K
. v: y. l# C) ?- Q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。6 M* e% h1 f" x7 F
! {( q( u) y/ o( l7 Z& 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. ; U1 A9 Y* n2 {: @" y2 P, F6 |0 f, d: z U9 J9 D: b% h$ D
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。 ! {$ J7 ~; W. H0 e( ^' T6 M" k' `1 l6 N' r" N
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ; ^& |( p- C" y [, y; b) T+ H8 E/ r9 B( p+ {
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。 2 f. G! s6 ?$ ]9 ^ ; O2 e# B, U: P7 gBut 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.# q7 i: w2 ~5 e1 `: B6 `
9 Q4 G2 D( Q6 y' I; \1 H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。; R, V0 J, J! h' O% t, U8 s
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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. 4 p, a6 g0 j; `) c3 E' ` 6 x. S5 P2 ~6 O( b9 N+ d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。 8 P+ { Q. T) I$ K( ~# ^ 8 p6 C2 u2 v* Z1 ~+ }2 sYou 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. * c# v9 w! D, G" e$ m* x $ L& [. [" r2 ^ g- @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, O6 _. E' |$ P
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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. 4 ?; r/ U9 J: [/ [8 v. E% w9 s0 Y* k: f% G) N) W
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 5 p6 E# [9 {& r5 {- f; k5 ` ' ^5 |% C6 o5 m( q, m/ cHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." O; G A" v. K4 C$ }. j. [
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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。 w$ w0 o, ]! g0 Q- N. G0 z# |; i! W
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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. " 9 i4 A- P F, M: H8 q" x5 a) n- s; }; n( q: j* S9 k
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! n7 e# [+ U; b
& R( N' w; B2 n# G) L. h1 wTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( m$ v" _4 K3 O Z# t. F. b) D$ k
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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。8 O: w" _$ Z: N: j
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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."7 I8 o: b4 ?7 P6 B