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 y8 u" J3 S, M
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生命就是小甜饼：1 @- V) P; Q1 {" E( A* G7 Y. U" ?
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.9 I0 R! F9 K, ~* h
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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”。 1 G$ {( h1 O: n) n% P3 b( I1 Q6 U! Z; B c4 n7 W# d7 ]
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 Z5 a' J% B7 A T( d+ 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。 E6 {+ ?1 D# q, s- f9 l2 V6 x& {4 Y/ O1 B
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.6 O- U& x6 @8 q0 E
# y" i7 y+ X1 P3 e1 ?4 ]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。 % A8 R. N ^ H2 X3 i5 k 1 q0 x) u. N2 |% X' ~; ^! i$ GA 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. / T2 u" k8 J% W8 N; ]" ]# k6 T0 ^, @& b! m: Z4 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。 # L$ g- R2 Z+ ?' w" H/ G; b* A E/ A$ F8 c2 r9 d! ]7 z) y2 a4 D, a
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 t" R8 i/ y+ Z g% D, u
7 ?; W8 q/ e1 x$ M. h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。 l) ~( C! ]. l7 l# I% l , ^6 V1 t$ o9 T& R& 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.- A% t' l9 v5 H7 T5 X
" n% H: ]/ k; w. 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。) j E/ \! ?- T" o, F2 K9 R
8 y! k% P" ~9 O, ]# J# {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. 9 s1 s) x# W8 E3 D8 v 8 e0 P' u: Y; `* t2 j+ N* f# k$ Z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。- @. }' M- }2 X8 Z+ g0 ~+ P* c
3 z% Z- R8 L: ?* KYou 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. % o% y, p# w7 F5 w
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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。1 \& @8 o& k7 {1 j+ c0 ]
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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.1 d* y/ C& w- P+ R& W5 @. F
" d- I* k7 T* P* o; A u' J& K. u* E你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 t0 Z+ c5 r8 G8 c% E. Q7 B4 J3 h; @6 s8 J% @) o0 B; o( _
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him./ T8 x+ e+ l. w: X) j2 U
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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。 ' L# ]% l0 N; n2 L k/ Y7 v' h+ c! PFor 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. " 8 L$ Y' j7 p* ~1 ~& S ! B, |1 ]) x' H/ s2 M8 N0 g: 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。' [ n3 |& |% ]! Z9 J2 N7 d
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ {" n, p3 C: _6 v3 B
" p2 x3 O" }# 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。 % e' L4 F& u% X L, h' I. |+ w9 ]3 O4 r0 YLife. 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."' s/ Z3 w" i! O0 y/ q0 V u