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 _9 _+ H& g$ y* v8 V) G
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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. 0 _. N/ J# z$ V6 X& P 8 r9 Q7 n$ `* M; S: T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”。 5 M6 L, }; i$ s" R6 ?0 K5 d& M( ^ 2 R! Y3 h# ]) J6 F2 X% zIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( s1 ^: q# J; I; h; i , [- g: C9 g) b: X- ^4 y/ q8 y) v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。 & b; }( s5 d# R" `0 \* _+ i 6 `7 U! e- t, x8 s4 i" `2 qSome 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.0 D2 Y% Z2 }3 o2 I6 k7 I
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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。 9 i& L6 ]3 ?2 h8 [% T a 9 y: L' P: {# J% M9 z- RA 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.- ]! d$ R6 u9 d9 L! N+ `
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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。8 B, [: K8 {- T X( U* g
; h6 `. w2 B R. ^. Y% DWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% V9 O1 t: s' y3 i* A, o
0 x/ n- E+ Z! l, w3 U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。+ F" j# T" g$ Y+ Y
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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. # W _+ ]5 z8 n- ]; [6 H& V7 s& f 0 I$ ]7 ~' j! @* T: Z- w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。6 Z) x4 u+ S& w
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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。6 U2 m. c1 I+ s$ l
7 x+ e- z" w2 C. X7 S/ Z6 `* YYou 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. 9 W2 b. @6 J- \' f& |8 y# d$ v; g) X6 |) s$ I
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。" ?5 O6 e2 o( W, O
; {+ j2 N" [- S4 Y5 hYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ u" f9 ~9 M9 e, K1 z7 c6 W% `4 Z5 F8 w' x4 r, o
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( p. ~; f, |2 Q 2 N% k5 h/ D) T+ C% i% @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 X4 y3 c( F+ h0 m+ j1 _ & A. q: e& F* A+ w! v0 I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。 2 Q; Z* Z/ W9 A$ S7 S , Y1 _' a, m8 V4 W; NFor 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. " 0 z; |: }) C' `( O: W' l, `. V6 G) z+ _6 \+ o& ]7 @ ]7 H
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。 2 v U$ {. E/ Y& q v3 W - i6 G" P5 S; p& K3 k0 xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ N9 ^4 E B1 P: J3 a
5 `6 W; a: t4 G8 Z% H/ OLife. 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."2 O, z4 M6 `% b