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： x% \% K; I( e. ~) f
) q8 F: f6 m; ]. J生命就是小甜饼： # K) l) ]# B8 l2 \3 x( L- D: }$ MOne 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 ]3 U- A5 }5 H J
' t) c1 V/ i4 [9 W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”。. s# z. C2 w/ v2 n) e4 z+ u
8 ~' x; v- v! `- {0 Q( I6 _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 j- d6 f$ _0 a) \' Q ? $ L' v( y/ f# u! z; L( r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 A" `( ?1 s& ]9 w8 j
# F, X$ A: c4 s1 ~9 uSome 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. + m- N: U! @ |3 d; N7 k ( O, d+ B. m! W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。; K% z0 w1 H4 ~, j
" o4 q6 ^" D1 Q$ L) G& F5 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.8 e$ r: w: b f Y5 I, S% ?
$ Y) Q3 j3 a3 _) P0 S" J/ e& d" k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。' O4 w S3 ?2 M; }) p6 U, w
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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. * A3 j: f0 L& P, [, `' o# \: D, N& K5 P- |& Y7 b* n
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。 * {6 \; x0 Q0 a& K$ }) p! k : ~8 L$ Y5 \3 v, j+ ~3 b" t: M* u) dBut 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.. i, O/ @2 Q8 A) a( H# ^
' [; Y c( E, K$ U+ O2 I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。 ' p2 A7 w5 J, p3 M ; a! R" n% w9 _: d$ U, MThe 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. 2 P, h" P; T2 ?$ G) N0 U. z* B. a2 s
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。# f4 Z; D/ h7 C$ }
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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. Y# X3 o3 r- M4 m! ]& l( ^& I* u+ b# G ?* C4 U; \0 A9 Y
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。 ! Z: O! ~% h# u+ {) e; Y8 b$ X: B : k3 o: g7 P( |$ ^" w. @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 n3 ]" ?; h# J1 V! _
0 l' {1 N5 w: f7 T! n0 b7 p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 ^' r! ~; Z, ^6 k; v: c
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., [% Z# M: H5 J
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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 G6 u* {1 g- p* F* A" F+ l b4 M- w3 C' Q1 @
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. " 6 f4 ^" [4 F( A5 R X! ]& x4 z8 u3 k% E O3 p/ l. y! z& d4 B5 b, }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 X5 |7 k" y3 O" ` w& I 3 E Q+ ? _4 ?/ s' F1 kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. & \& f/ {1 K5 R$ f! f& y& c/ T) E' b 7 O* F% b, ]1 ^9 s/ w7 z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 4 X2 q7 R }- a, b2 Z / I# Y3 `, E1 w- l% r- ZLife. 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."( H! q; y) W4 d; [3 b, I3 x- Z