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： 1 E( N1 ?# N& J4 ~( }$ Z2 z & @( s E0 Q9 ~! W生命就是小甜饼：. e' a6 c9 ~0 u* 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." K8 d' q7 v. p( Z, x/ D
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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”。! q1 F P- O5 a5 o% U# {
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.$ z. h( [+ X, R# e* H. o3 P" E
# J. F. }6 z1 i E- @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。 " c( `3 E8 Z: l 8 J- Y, G" 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. * z1 F2 ]5 h6 Q3 D" i6 P( f; z % f. ~; m6 x; V. }7 w- V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。( m( O7 V+ u! }& |0 [" A7 F
$ k% u( Q+ ]% w, W5 [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./ C" r& {- @! _$ Y2 J
2 L4 F/ M4 |$ I: j9 J# m0 d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。+ T9 n: }% }' x+ n$ I l# i
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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.* {& i7 f% T# l8 _, D# f
/ Y& A% T3 w2 M: o3 X5 T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。 " k8 W& o( n6 R3 H, v" z) |( A6 J7 ^( h% f# I, h1 o
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. f3 b% U/ I" }% D8 v& W5 J" S9 b( j2 t
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。 1 x& [! h( e4 L4 }& W4 W - N4 Y/ u2 h* \& SThe 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. 0 o$ a) E# t8 J% `/ u6 S7 u+ ~0 Y% M6 o8 c
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。0 O j" R8 m3 H8 B4 L8 `
1 Z& F3 B" T$ r' ~" e* m& eYou 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. , _: a+ g1 F. J9 }5 u3 k
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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。. j8 |9 u& W8 \; v
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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.3 s: A$ [4 @* }1 G) A8 Z0 I8 d
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 z& }. X7 y' a( Y0 a# r2 }9 ^. I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( k9 u5 ]; Y9 |4 E) f( \! b6 r
. h4 l+ X: M! P+ t. l) d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。 / B& U6 u7 Q3 t: }7 U! G & f, M# A5 V8 ?9 V" h# ~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. " p; n+ C5 w4 K1 E
- s, |0 S; w' P. }# @7 }; I; l* T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。 2 D2 X+ m; E! Y. z2 ^7 f, s2 o6 @1 i2 d& p! u
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. * Z" r* p# \ M+ @7 x" ~' j - [( r# J+ Q- _. b* i“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 # t/ [( x6 y! d- i t. E) h3 Y1 Y8 _+ D8 v1 T& P/ Y( V9 a( G5 B
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."# {" Z% u% ^% ?% J# h# H