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： , {# ^) k N O& d8 R5 u % f- U+ @: i( C- j; M5 w生命就是小甜饼：4 `) q; k% i5 v) P% Y
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 {0 ^* c8 t8 ]% \/ j3 }
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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”。 % @; l2 U% s8 e: O9 ] . ^: g- `0 w# I8 @( ]. b# xIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # K( N4 e. e- [- e2 h# z- g/ `, I e
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。5 a7 y: w, U7 O
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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. ! j1 c6 h' z! D4 k: U$ i* s0 @9 ^ 7 M$ S% M! b6 h' r& m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。 6 M0 Y( ]7 x* o# w( {: D6 v 9 l& M y, ?- N9 d1 ]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. ) U* W) f* M3 z( r% x; L ! |- U- P: C9 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。 3 | l0 V' y% x( s5 B! {/ P0 J1 o r0 F! O# l8 ~, p, r' c- j
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 4 |: w. h4 k+ Q6 A9 [0 J+ X& v+ ^. c/ 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。 / c' Y% t, U. I$ f% S0 M, B0 K - {. d; m1 U2 S; e' ?5 ~6 xBut 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. |3 |9 e& h; Z7 {4 _( [
: M9 }# K# K( w' t* Z% s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。 $ {$ n& U8 n4 |* X$ V7 i 0 b/ j" A+ r- y, G0 s, I9 R% ~7 _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. 4 |1 N0 ^- |* h8 x$ a3 S/ y) O( ~ + e# R& y/ S w$ Z: O1 P+ H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。- O# w9 ?1 ~2 I9 Q8 ?: ~9 ]( l0 [
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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. # H; p& j J- K. C" }; ?$ \ + R" ~3 N% P' S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。: o$ p0 |: F! \+ T
- C2 y' @" }5 NYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 I' s5 S' G2 E$ b 2 m' s. _9 c/ ]: }/ f你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。" `# t/ X3 U6 M- d# i7 L# Y
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. . D+ C+ d5 m1 Q5 I) x$ P + h5 V; d! S8 p: J H2 P; L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。5 g. m* @6 P5 ^" p' N
8 k8 l4 _9 Q6 BFor 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. " 5 B( a( O/ s Y: g7 i% k/ Y+ }" n y4 c4 O
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。, Q; @7 o1 z! k/ i2 \' N$ S
, ]8 }: [( h r$ q- ~2 R5 aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " o- V$ U: }) T 7 X0 K, u! t3 f. R, |“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 m0 q" u* ]% z1 r4 c! H9 p1 l& M V3 n& L3 t
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 t# b I) O0 v5 f