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：$ h) _1 J6 _1 @3 M9 f
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生命就是小甜饼：1 v) l0 k9 g$ r+ y1 c
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. + x+ x! }$ x& b ; E% n) O! B0 f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”。* W. }" _$ T8 H( P; \
( r4 x0 U9 [4 r, Z6 f! e. mIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 P9 C" Y1 ]+ e1 l9 y
$ \7 ~ C7 o0 {: s3 a8 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。 / I1 Q6 c7 A3 Z6 v5 a+ C+ C3 `5 k
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. 1 v, g" v! ~3 t 3 ?# A( ^/ `, B5 \; }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。( p5 C' C! E" U/ T: @& ^0 P
, V! e8 M# P; F r, jA 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.4 U, H c2 Q2 c
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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。2 c+ O5 J b. Q- a% `0 x
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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.) o; T2 D9 N) s( b/ X# w# z
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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。+ K3 g/ t. b# _4 o8 D$ A0 K' `
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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. " R! X# p* Q+ t3 L6 g; T . k5 K' V: G4 {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。/ M" q) U; m0 M7 X- v
& s3 O" C4 u/ f M) cThe 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., ` i! L) }3 Q9 l6 Q 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。$ P- U0 A. d, m, j1 J5 V0 Y
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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. ! S- Y) l4 Q7 |! `1 P, U4 p1 ^0 U; D5 h5 o8 U- ]4 x
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。2 [( q* [5 N: z; I% A7 ?
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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.) \* X5 n1 v8 x' N
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。- r% v* g5 M& [1 `; N. E3 K* T0 J" I
- ~4 s7 O" Q/ XHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) \! j! M8 @ P" C' C, T' B
4 r" ?+ C8 _8 I# i3 U! K; n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。 ) X; O# k: n" \+ d! D / t0 ~ l/ ]$ H7 w6 `! IFor 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. "" n4 W% `6 g+ g3 s, L
( s5 A7 ^; C4 F, m) ]& h6 L7 q, V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。4 J e' M4 u1 ?; F2 C; O
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 8 |+ L0 Z5 @+ `7 t 0 Y! O7 x& B- n; n7 ^6 L) o" h“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* d; H3 y; e {# Y) l
! Z6 Q# S6 @- _* e0 ~( VLife. 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.": V, p/ @4 C4 S( \( p