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：2 t! A8 }: t3 ?! H$ v
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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. 9 ?5 I9 _/ w. p( {* _" Q1 B/ X' r) A1 k
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”。* ]2 s+ @9 }9 U: O( o8 ]
. q3 v B. q4 ?4 P, A2 uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : w. M# f4 H$ c4 _" k 9 M( Y( p5 m+ H8 h3 i( e4 F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/ W) z8 ?- Z {$ T3 I2 A5 r: f, K& W, J. A# K: _
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.# z0 x% x; g# G' q( @0 B6 X/ r
& n8 O3 p& R6 }. b% ]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. 8 H e" `! B+ |& @4 y6 ~, M% v; f p4 j
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。, r$ R& R9 ]0 X1 R) V
, D' L+ O! o8 G5 ~When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 D, b3 c8 F- ^9 s; v7 c * Y9 ?* w2 w# A6 h9 Z, f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。9 a: s; ^. ~" B
# c3 u7 R2 h" _5 E1 \: s8 P( R6 y( oBut 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./ R) S) p0 j( s6 ~1 n
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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。& U& _8 g: {+ A5 J" [
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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.0 T4 R) H; \2 y; \# G u h
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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。 3 L! H; ?' b+ I$ z1 }' [" i# l - v- R) z# E0 lYou 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. + {2 o' E1 A( s# E' |
+ U- ?( G3 A0 ]4 H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。 7 {5 ]3 C- v1 Y ) K$ a: G* ^+ }6 Y+ H: u! TYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 2 e' N; e( h9 ?( Q+ s! K; i" L% {& g2 o+ x5 @
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ ^# g. j" }) Y% H) g4 Y& s! Z/ L4 Q# F* w8 n ~' { r$ u
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. P0 E8 v4 x& {1 D$ e
( p8 L% e7 {9 s/ U. u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。7 R" g* a/ [3 Z( G
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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. "# H |3 X4 H3 t4 g& |
1 l% n1 z9 U5 `' T* ~/ I# 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。9 W3 P: g1 [+ S5 L
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 S l& \, h- D& H9 \ ' N1 w1 _7 f1 V2 X4 r. n2 S4 {“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。& H! k: h* k9 m9 x5 a; T1 J4 u$ T
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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." ; B- r! Q& d; ^) i 5 ` a3 P. S5 a& Q* e生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。% ^ k9 ]6 T. q, O& A4 z1 S
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