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：4 S! F# ^; U \. q8 `4 X3 z
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生命就是小甜饼： \$ N% k7 }: f( u4 A
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. % o0 i* Q& w: h2 A, ~9 m/ T( u9 p/ q) N! f
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”。 . E2 H {+ \& K- N1 b# R: w4 [+ B9 H& M0 f* M) V
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . C* Z. F+ Q- q1 x! D& \- B, v" x. M& e; K
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。1 K; b8 m" s9 M' n* F: o/ {
( _6 R( M" Z' Q$ k4 i/ Q$ `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.& e. D: }% h& B @3 k+ H
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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。/ N0 v4 V8 w! S3 A/ B% e) L
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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.5 l! |+ y" z+ b% D
7 m% G4 _% {! H( P; P( ]$ o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。) Z1 L# w( L. Z$ A
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 n# M' T) J; X O( ?" f; J! ^
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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。 7 ^$ o8 u/ Y) K+ V$ `9 a, \" a M" m/ y; H9 k5 ?
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 P- Y# M$ G* Z2 N, ?0 @6 ]. o/ W; S* H. k$ d9 Z
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。* ?- I; {8 m: v7 _7 f) ~
# P- O3 Y( R% z* }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. ' e9 F1 ^- S9 o! @8 c0 ^- q! a9 p) `4 ]+ H( {" d
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。 1 [/ \( i$ ^" k, L* N8 d: H # o7 d9 ]8 E# C `3 z+ C. J! G/ JYou 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. & ^8 s U+ S1 x
, l* l+ c6 u7 d5 K& S) ~- r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 T J3 v" x5 N( H% p' c8 M4 u7 }3 s4 K: V* @2 W
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ m, d$ R T0 u7 g
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . d6 q6 Q. p/ l& q- K2 K! [# I ! Q3 [% J8 G& Q9 v6 i" b7 {( SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # Q3 `$ ]+ X0 V/ K* g9 P) Y8 B; @ S( 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。 / e) ]" s6 v" h0 V, {) J6 g. F# ]) D. {3 b, D7 f: e! {+ I! H
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. "0 I; J# G: u( |1 _# u+ Y: d/ M
3 S& [, X+ S! L, J2 i9 j- E8 P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。, n& A- O: L, N. u7 T1 ^6 T
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 0 C/ q/ T9 @0 t: b# P. X. N0 j8 H% \1 h0 I6 \( z$ {, k5 a
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 C1 X3 N2 Y. ~9 @7 q# I! E
2 P2 B6 J# R, _1 pLife. 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."0 D5 Y4 r" r3 u7 N, W