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： ) l9 Z7 I5 E9 W$ |, I/ f) `8 y2 Q3 L
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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.( ~8 {: Y) O0 `$ q& W' e& P! A
+ v1 P: i7 S9 h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”。, S& I& I: R6 K+ d
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 G( s4 V7 y9 l' c) }$ U: e4 B
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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。 H; q+ h$ L# e" o j( _9 e # _( @. s1 w7 F9 f5 U: GSome 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., u1 B5 n+ N8 Q5 p
) H) s: |" R; W/ v/ X# L* HA 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.4 q9 d G) y; u# {3 T
- ~6 L6 T) `* R' _6 q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。 ( y* b6 a" ~' n( B" O ; {, j; P8 r R: Q& t& QWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 f% n1 _' L' q1 Y
9 f, Z6 }9 X/ ?6 q/ h3 K. L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。$ J" i% B( Z/ _9 c& B
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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.9 I/ `. c- p3 W
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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。 $ l N# I( g/ v: B; l% W ( A! P8 t. C( a- U- Q; fThe 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.! B& T# o% W' d8 D Y& `/ I
! [: Z6 ~7 B" q" M# S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。& X! E& x7 D' C/ b: [" b
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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. + [+ }$ t/ w2 K u" E8 ~8 C) J$ g& W/ }( o; v Y8 a, `! f" z! y- L& }
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。 : A8 Y( P3 k. j5 g* X2 [: c: }: ~2 }* i( t' K- D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 b/ m0 P0 S% {5 b! L3 _/ d
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ z( R: F" W5 \ Y
2 ?" e" s8 K/ w3 }5 }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 c3 f9 J% a3 S0 O# o" ?& ^
: [3 ^( V: M6 X* r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。 # j2 o5 g& v! t7 R2 Q9 p# e& l6 R H) N4 X2 V
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. "- s: O) j# v3 ]2 a! p9 }; q
8 B5 l& P& B: _/ ]7 [9 F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。( K; Z+ ?, _* a4 s2 n4 n
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 u& }% @/ [$ x! Z2 n+ [
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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。, ?5 W9 E4 y7 j* Q0 n w9 x
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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."" W' D; S# H6 ]) W' I