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： 2 W0 m* m! \! l# X$ o% I' N6 T8 p( v
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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.. e- _/ A6 J6 i
& m4 N/ r* b3 M- L" U& aIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. P" `- R( H2 Q+ |. Z( I Z" V0 z
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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。 / \) f/ I. F9 \3 y8 q2 c6 x4 T; Q $ c) ~" t Y: ]+ M$ 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.. V, n# s" X; K" R" n( K
+ c' T1 g& D8 b! s9 O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。0 e" x- |' {/ c" f0 ~
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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. V+ Q% @( C2 n* ^: j0 {
+ Q( B: w0 j; p5 ?/ g- H s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。 7 S0 B6 V! M1 o; A6 ^ + f6 e& z$ p. E* v' SWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / [3 o) k5 n2 m I; [1 f4 N, I) O8 U5 `3 }# Y9 ` l/ Q3 {
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。 ; p( j) j$ [% N# F9 y1 O" R( @$ k( L# `# x8 Q
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. - f+ P" V; M( H1 N' U t" W6 r: G+ V7 M" w, g( L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。" ^+ m6 U. p7 G, Y
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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. ' J5 G( V: `. U$ k" k0 R0 R9 ] J4 B; V( U: L6 c& u
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。 + ^: I9 p8 a8 ^& { 7 a" ^) h/ ~7 ]; F, |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. ( m7 }. p0 @2 N; d- j8 a+ P$ e3 E& j$ l- b' Z) Z# \
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。" [- S9 W# M; S& y" x# f
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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 f3 z2 y) b$ r! I4 L
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。# t( p, T2 _" p' ^. ^+ k# x
8 p: x) D: i' a# R/ dHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 e& [7 G# N! Q" {' Q1 F0 H
" T1 m4 V( {6 j5 I( V3 m5 Q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。 ( h) Z1 W; ]" \) |7 G2 D/ j4 |3 ^" N, j0 p; a+ S9 F; }+ |
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. " - Q. S# N7 h+ U _, D7 R9 p. P: K3 k+ A5 \$ g& K8 [6 B
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。' u! c0 c+ S3 @5 j% V8 Y
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 D9 O$ W+ h# b! s. o8 B % V9 u' f7 ?$ x2 F2 V“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' x, M$ Z( R, L4 g9 M 9 ]8 w1 ], f: H/ ]: d: t NLife. 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.": E! m0 q O. v k2 b; ~1 K/ R