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：: o; C1 |, ?$ d- r
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生命就是小甜饼：) c, H5 U- @0 Q# C% Y0 ^
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. 1 o& d; }( \+ {9 ?5 U8 o. ]& ?6 x4 F( w9 e: C3 E! E) Z# j) D
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”。: J9 _% |1 F; [) O
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 @4 \2 a0 k3 Y) q3 ^
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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。+ x2 x3 O9 N. G4 L: T
, f7 M# r6 o1 {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./ r3 d& t; T5 S5 f- R
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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。 ; u& y" D1 _. x/ W" B' E 2 X0 H8 s1 }5 X' _$ `& t% {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. % w( _" f9 o/ [- B9 V: H8 C( K# e$ L `5 g) K+ L3 H
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。 2 r$ q- W+ Q8 j, A4 U2 i& t4 c: i" w3 I2 }/ X. \, p
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 K0 q- C2 x; U2 d. Z$ ?' J) Y2 W5 J+ Q
" b' T9 {& C; o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。+ B# g8 b7 o2 |, ~/ P$ l$ B& x
! F9 Z) J/ [* K. b' }& [+ BBut 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 x7 c% H' C' D2 F
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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。 2 Y+ A& o7 P$ w/ E! M b 5 T+ G+ A. U0 Z: w0 ] ?7 YThe 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. / A3 P4 v/ d. F9 `) [- s9 }1 D8 Q2 {5 R5 v5 ?
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。( D( P1 X, B' b6 `
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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. . \0 W7 s8 W0 \" h
& |- Y' h' X, d1 Q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。8 ]' T3 B* q) j! D5 e
7 M. n3 K0 w' _3 ?3 V" {You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 v; D0 S, G9 _5 J' r4 r' g
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ o/ I ]! g( R' K0 E' C+ l z 1 Z: _7 M4 {4 w" [0 [$ j* QHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 1 r4 }! P6 Z/ N% v. S1 |: u2 r* O9 i% U; G+ b- i9 y
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。 $ o! _: y( A* y2 \0 ], S( x+ W- @8 O% }- A% i) u* d
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. "% o3 L' t1 @- H+ l* R+ i
' F; a5 G! n+ Y; \" E) h% q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。 9 F$ u& }8 F2 Y- Y& g& V- h$ ^+ o& C1 J) _& r8 I' c6 G. \/ a* \& U. j- x. r
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ F3 {/ c: K; w/ x( G! Z
+ C5 Q8 V0 o7 C$ ^: V/ L“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) P) P- V5 Y% W( w n
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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."9 d+ \' ^9 ^' e( P6 N6 Q. b