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： e. A& ~, J/ a1 ?
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生命就是小甜饼： : x9 x5 C. ` r F9 AOne 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.$ T0 X$ {) l( c
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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”。 ; X& e$ |- j# }8 @7 I& S0 i/ C7 M0 B; x: M
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 b% x; b$ f. @+ {' q( R; a / U" C- N/ H5 l/ Z- K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( H2 K" P1 H! W9 [$ m( X/ d6 S4 _4 U# ?. N; }- l
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.' }1 s, l4 C+ v1 ^. e1 e$ j
* `' }' I6 j4 v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。' u3 E8 H$ k6 X$ n7 T% o" `. B, L
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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.; }. X ~% e- ^ Z3 W9 B
1 @$ F/ I- k- [ g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 O) y6 u6 o( d* q+ P' h. u5 B. }& o
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 k. M: {9 ]0 |8 Q
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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。 # Y1 C" Z! g1 ]. z" d: l( {% k; {6 {. `& ], x ?
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.5 f5 {- Q h% ^5 f
; Q: W5 Y# A. A- f- ~- q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。 1 v3 v" B1 e8 E/ s1 D. `3 d, [ $ N4 q( h7 o' f" `! rThe 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. ; W" |+ S; I2 j$ U0 d5 ?; e' x9 C, h) T
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。) x8 O: z5 d2 I+ O
+ b- `, D' E7 ?* l3 b+ V9 {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. $ P& s' H# v' K6 I0 B6 M/ |( k& G; b0 L) b" 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。 , n1 q2 R A9 s }$ U. D8 F/ r/ X% m) b2 c( U& s1 o% P
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.: V. t+ i" X& @
* Y3 K1 c a# [& [4 t7 j- z" F& nHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 ~2 `! N4 U! c& V' V# d* q( E% `8 Y
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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。 ' y# z: T7 {: U; U( h( u: N) z+ V9 P* | j5 A: c& q9 P# Z& |
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. " / x5 x, P0 m0 q1 N, V) H+ }( D& X$ |
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。" G! y* l$ Y7 K4 g
6 d7 K4 O0 z" i3 s: Y. vTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# Y* x% ]6 y) f
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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。. |$ G6 j$ L- j* }- B
8 \) U9 M6 L& z) o' n" ~: \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.") X0 P1 m% J0 p8 n/ I) ? }