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： ' B* C# @5 U: @, B % K, x! E5 v F6 G生命就是小甜饼：1 h' W& X* T* D6 u
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.- W% M {# L) S
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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”。) y5 B" @6 w. _& e6 S- v* v: h, b
3 _1 W0 ]" h. DIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. & L, H5 w! Z$ e3 I- b! a* i1 C. p( D4 {4 p1 J
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。* _8 F% E4 ?/ c; A- _5 @9 h; K# e* @1 e
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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.* }6 _) ?# U- @# n4 Y+ q1 b
2 R" W* r; i$ j# k+ O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。 : p% H9 |4 R6 \, @+ e ( B2 p& K; Y+ F; w' eA 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. 1 F2 z# P4 i) N% z. c7 A" o& H; s' T2 L8 B$ C5 f1 V5 s
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。 ' \* G7 u( E2 `1 q! Q) ], ~! f5 u0 q- c5 W8 g1 b
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 9 A5 h& y- ]) l3 \- h! X o% g' b _( T9 i5 v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 k3 G" k9 F
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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.4 z6 `8 Y$ A' A7 U: K- k$ d- c
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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。 8 e0 y7 b( d- g; @& M$ } + d d. I! j$ M4 j; V) Q7 S5 |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.1 [6 _$ q; B7 a3 N( L& X
# _8 ~$ `+ K3 X5 J+ P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。 8 ~* b3 d% ?0 z' F2 ^7 W8 D8 {1 b; U* A
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. 2 ]% z' n8 Z0 e! j7 O
5 W4 J: p6 l" i0 h2 m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。! Q8 a" s6 v! e7 b& G( W: G- |
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% ]% W, Y' B; \) `' U( T
. E: p9 L+ Q3 F6 C7 d+ g你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 q, {4 {) U' ]4 Y* I0 ~3 L& b* s+ C3 O
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." \: l* @6 S7 w5 D6 r4 u. V6 b6 o; s9 ~
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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。3 H v, z0 S% `! b
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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. " # b$ K$ ?: B! h6 x- e6 r1 j% ~ + a# _1 k. k+ c5 Q r1 B' 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。& [) C. G/ N+ T3 T! q9 N1 i# V
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ ~3 N" h/ q1 q3 r' {2 b; A
, Q( w/ @4 V) Q* v4 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。 - p! M' D' u5 j7 c9 x. ~, U! a 8 E! ^ q: x* k' f$ T) 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."; h# f# D, d9 |2 ^, } z