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：' J0 B. D& ~" D. @- E* A9 N
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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. 3 ` S( h1 [7 F2 H8 n! g/ p 0 p1 u! B6 g) X' Y8 O1 R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”。 : O2 Y8 }3 f; p3 s5 @2 Z$ Q1 A! }, | j6 F
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . L# ^7 R) e+ _% L I 7 |# i) }5 G! I/ R8 c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 n: G# i3 @1 L- |/ {5 `1 ]% D j. w9 H' W* e y! Z; P3 Y4 e8 z
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.+ N0 z) t2 ~9 S
" j" E$ z, U$ K, A4 N0 u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。 / U8 M, E. s0 G7 { % w P8 b8 K, V$ E* f. FA 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. ( p6 t: G5 Z5 M; A. l! s0 m4 `, t! s/ @6 |2 U- Z- Z% Q% Z
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。 `+ v5 E3 V9 Y, [# t5 e. c) U; h! a# W w5 J7 D
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* s& |% h' M# p9 |1 V- ]
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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。 & z$ [9 ?# b q. H. l, N * b r# l, B( i! l W; G7 E8 c+ CBut 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.6 `, p k/ M5 [+ X! r
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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。' r# [9 F n+ k4 V# ]8 Z
5 P% v% G; ?+ o* j! z+ wThe 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 {3 K; t" }- A& M5 O
$ L; ]( `3 b1 t5 M9 }$ x: z! V0 z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。 ( Y2 {$ B. P1 u 9 j1 O% t" P. {+ I$ J/ nYou 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. ; u0 C4 d# ?, e3 N$ l% r: J! R' Y* b$ |6 T: a
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。 , S0 o) d3 g) D+ s9 B- _" X4 s- z ' M1 Q5 [8 c5 g3 h, `$ d6 ~You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) c5 c# L, m7 D P 3 z x: s. `- S4 l# G v* y你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 L$ g8 g, Q$ ~ 0 ~% q2 S, @ {7 h$ VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 p4 t) ?) [6 o+ ^2 g* @
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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。 ! [8 U: c3 V$ g3 Z! V; c ! b) D- ~7 J. z0 t Z7 k7 p/ ^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 q6 q" k) R+ K5 a! w
6 t' D2 y' z8 v1 w4 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。 / b! `& N2 _" X ^* [. \ ! n) s0 f8 F( _ m0 {% S+ WTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) U9 y" e! f* ~2 ?/ r" k; N4 f 2 _; ]% Q; v- F! R& f“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 : \' c, N9 A* m4 F$ N " R* l5 H. ?1 RLife. 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."& }8 B3 U0 w2 C. [, q