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： ! ^; ^. o9 k; U& l* v$ ^2 E: d! K8 h( ? |6 S: b; W8 ^8 H& Y2 C+ i6 }
生命就是小甜饼：$ |+ ]; ]. Z' S+ d' W2 w2 Y+ s) 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.: N5 V+ t& E4 h' L2 I# L' y" E9 Q
8 ~1 O8 B% D; w% WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 S( A) a2 }+ V+ X# f7 s ! O: D' w, ^9 @# }* H( v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 J/ v9 P- d( y" X; L& o: X" v. Z+ \% { z# s, d4 V
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.2 E' l4 k* r n
; [7 v$ v M8 F* Q7 G1 L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。5 O6 \/ V3 j4 G2 |
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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. 0 ?1 G9 Y% {. S/ E4 X3 K! d* H: N- T) v1 e
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。 l7 p4 ?) v& [5 I
% x. ^0 p) e1 F4 XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + W1 H' X Z" h. ^3 {: e9 S2 f1 y
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。 3 l6 z9 Q" A; p6 J% I8 i7 g p ' X4 l& h$ |; A2 ?4 kBut 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.5 j! P$ [5 N* G% d) 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。 : H# E4 K' T1 r' f" `3 G) J; T% n+ O9 i( h5 m4 Y9 ~
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.) O1 e, \ u3 q& K; j: n' }
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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。 # g" x) o6 J9 h( {9 ~7 [ 5 {: j% i3 p+ d: g- v& _; O& F: ]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. 6 U8 J" p/ X5 f- ~4 i8 J# ]* p0 {+ ]. ]2 ~* i5 B
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 P4 s: W0 B2 ?" i* N" f/ _7 j1 _' Z% J# g" _
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 o, i/ D \4 x3 G) m- D& B& ^
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 O. k. m& j" B3 E) N& O
. M8 V4 b& I3 p! S9 c' R1 M# a- YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! o- c6 A- a. m& |, r/ I W+ [8 A" @
, J, e D$ p6 S' _9 d) ZFor 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. " 3 i9 C7 u9 U* d0 M% w2 {8 A6 W3 ]' ?1 ^( x# m% M
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。 ) j4 w i; m; @% _# O* v' m( H( `" S. X) H' q+ i2 q& r |
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 p/ `2 o: y, c" b! S! j3 h2 ~
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, Y" `& P5 j- O& H& y' Z/ L
0 l1 S& ^% t: I3 f: W4 Q* F7 @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."+ z/ c! g+ T9 g) C8 a