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： ! T9 {6 K6 ?/ O( T' Z; I* C" B9 S2 A2 ~" y
生命就是小甜饼：$ I+ U, ]( ~2 F3 t6 h% @4 g! b( Z% ]
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.4 y1 @9 a! f2 Y. h% l4 O" \: 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”。, {8 n0 f( J6 h& D& u; F* \& `; }
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( I! o" ~9 y+ @5 _6 P# Q
- M, ]2 M7 Z2 z; O1 O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。 ! H6 b. t4 a7 N! _: A% P $ p- O) i4 }6 K) h8 ?+ JSome 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 f5 e% Y7 ]2 b3 d % [8 s5 g O( {: S& T* F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。 + _& h# m; A+ }6 h. f" K 7 V! k5 V% _4 A, }' PA 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. " g* A, Y6 w7 U' g2 o : H) R8 J+ m1 s: x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。! W. T' t% _' I+ K: u
/ @! g0 Z, v W( ?: q0 lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# L _: ^0 P+ v% 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。 ! p. D# F* Q; ] ; l2 f0 @9 X5 P: D6 t) V0 k, M( T gBut 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.% ^% H7 z x: E) ^) t; P, x
' G: |; V2 w- u1 k6 S L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。 9 S, k5 X* L) K. p ' @! p P/ ?, j3 T# H- B; o7 ^) GThe 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. e& ~' I8 p' C# L& Y' i
6 w" A( `. M5 G& y" g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。/ K0 d. O1 _( M% s
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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. * m b5 M2 w4 F: [% m
! ]8 F3 J m, K3 A+ 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。. y/ b: N: x) v; p# X" o U& ]
0 z; y! Z- S+ c7 s( BYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 5 S+ A6 {8 ^$ D. j# I4 v7 h' |$ R. z
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。8 E* y( H/ C0 p/ r
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % O( K. O" {, E3 p1 X! B/ Z 1 m+ b2 R" t% ?! z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。 . A9 i U. t: H6 X' o8 C( j . @& ?9 V# `0 ?& Q, I/ E; E5 OFor 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. "/ n; N7 F: p6 F) i) H( {! A
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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。- J" X8 X7 w! a0 R
6 h" U$ p" w; P! N8 w8 cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( \% h! d% \' _& {1 }' c
; @* ^* }$ m0 U$ q$ P“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- V, ]# b' s2 W4 Z5 b: m* i
9 ~7 G& l# J: \- i( W% L4 @0 X+ S" [. hLife. 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.". u% u) y/ g: c