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： # m( L6 y" p# n 5 J" v7 q4 `" r0 P生命就是小甜饼：. }4 i t5 o3 s, A) R
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. $ K/ _! G! t& v' m& s+ ]% n: I6 M" G" p0 ]! v& H* H
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”。! ]( O! O O9 x5 `. x" j5 W
: K$ ^ m+ A0 N7 E4 d1 A V& S# LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 7 f0 d; y2 b: X2 n& z/ [ : y9 ^, P4 r _0 @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。 # y$ R. {4 B2 Y5 L, x, V1 h8 O7 T- h* p
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.# L9 |3 w" R7 c' o3 J9 x1 u# L
4 g& {9 z3 p* n$ OA 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.3 `9 p1 p3 X4 u: G' ]/ K" c2 j4 k
( u0 F0 X. B8 x$ t1 J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。 4 @& T4 p. c# \7 g Q3 n 3 R9 \- @5 e7 L, A8 |When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 H, U! W2 A! C7 m. h. J
# g S# _# a. ~) s2 \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。 9 X6 R5 o3 q8 ]% ^) [* _* p1 w0 B8 G) V- [$ b- {, K& o& G
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. + `6 X8 [9 s8 f# v/ {( ^0 z3 O1 Y0 k- F: l- s) m- @
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。 : `* l. }3 s# t) ^2 d2 P- ~3 \2 H: j
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. 7 T5 o, ?( |+ M4 R$ N% q# |- j! J3 K, d) M0 Z i* a- W
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。 1 V6 F* Z+ A- T- B$ e% V, ^1 a0 B( b+ z
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. P6 v: C6 Y% R# Z
! T8 \. ]$ I" G0 Z+ x. w6 K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。 & y3 V( h: \* c8 B) f & ~1 \' Z5 M" A9 M% e9 MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.4 O- q$ w y! e
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。+ f* n3 Y) w: p+ ^" W
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& w/ X- X5 Z! y/ J
- j8 f& \+ \4 Q8 s7 eFor 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. ", v- S$ o! | e% _5 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。" C, r; g% Y9 f9 f6 O$ C9 ~
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' T" S5 u/ t: m! b: P7 |
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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。* Z0 v4 I- e. m2 Y s! w6 i# B- B& X
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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."8 x( a& w3 k" c