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: ^. }; ~) J1 A $ E" R2 m* b( n( x' y$ k8 e+ e/ }生命就是小甜饼：. E9 T: s ]1 C9 N# X9 Q* Q/ T
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. 5 O4 N) h7 s) K* v8 R 0 e( _+ I9 }; y; L0 t/ `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”。' n1 e, W* k/ J. q
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. * I; k/ T7 W+ e, |( R+ \6 Z) B+ O8 O6 M" v/ @! w
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。 9 B7 B5 Y. t& ^5 A 1 P5 w& W7 P X8 W3 mSome 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.- z3 l# k1 I5 I2 K, l, r. @1 X, k. G3 y
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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。 0 P4 p6 ]- t* D ~/ y5 b 2 g& f6 u8 L5 I1 ~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. b! p+ L' B4 q+ [ . Y! D6 O4 o9 r4 A' U/ O; H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。 9 |! Q/ v9 d: ^& w k$ {4 z+ z( g. B, k F# x5 R5 J
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. + I0 o1 L, h! A8 S' n9 i, m1 G& y1 l8 Y% c" x) k
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。/ r% \! u$ R# E1 b2 J# |! h2 x
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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. * v6 x4 `0 v1 i# \* i5 d2 N! O' v/ H( |* b- p5 |1 N. u
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。 & l5 |! l K8 g( T' n o. X* X( V+ w5 _4 Y) u! f- v
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.& k6 \* I n2 T0 J6 _
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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。" V! M% O; ~$ e
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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. * f- G3 U- |! K) {5 F* h. G2 A" H9 E% m' c6 [
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。, j( q* b6 a$ }* H) T
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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. 9 d9 n% w Z' S2 j2 n# O9 F2 N* E! }% d
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 - s! a8 `. V% f) K; G' j/ Y* }) r5 `- y) c$ [3 ]( J( I
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " g Y9 D$ T8 H6 Q6 m% q* {) T0 S+ c2 @# y# _. ]1 F" K
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。 , a0 e$ Z+ a& R+ W, K- Z% p) H7 y, z/ {3 K7 V# q: q7 Y
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. " 5 W1 c2 g: h9 x7 M9 w3 X% M" ~1 y6 w
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。. r: y+ c! u7 G, M" a
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) Z2 M, Q. s( c1 b3 C
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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."4 I2 |+ m% u* c( G" P) h