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： 8 r$ L/ \5 @: d6 ~ 9 [" o; [/ w+ @4 |生命就是小甜饼： 5 O7 }$ b# a" P2 yOne 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. 1 s6 M. F' W* R( d4 V/ j! m3 ?9 ` 0 g% T; B# a- R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”。. T& l- X, C/ L& h0 H' H
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / j- l4 Q: [' F" R: B: F( p7 @* d- |7 W8 B# M4 f( Z2 x
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。 - L2 b) O2 N7 H + P; f$ ~" k3 r& e; }; C- lSome 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., |* X9 S0 r! L6 \' A, j
' ^4 q& x ]$ Q K+ H! u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。 z* @- w, {/ U! H, c5 t& \- O& L: T& d4 A* K
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.0 C2 h5 `. X( ]4 z( s/ g, 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。 % ]- n9 n; G# f1 O# g3 ~$ j, _" ~) B " ^7 q" G2 q$ ]+ m1 nWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % J& j! K( G( o# j * t7 ^' G" {$ O( |; e @4 P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。8 d, x1 z7 |6 d1 i
9 A) ?1 z; G4 |& d% ^' ?: ?5 _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. 1 K0 @( W6 i! w% @2 X 9 f; Q9 C6 Z7 c V" 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。 ' ?( b, Y6 B8 a8 `4 c) T# ^- ]+ H: E- o0 g R. p( J# 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.& d6 v, f. y+ 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。 % c& }, F) x) W' N1 T2 N" u' z! ]! Y3 b6 h B, i
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( p9 f; B. p6 L! t' x% a0 h- \0 l" L$ B
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。 3 j2 W$ n& f5 _$ k. r* z ! T- o- n9 ~3 [. @7 D$ k) H. e0 W" SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 n+ B- y* Y( Y* k0 @
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 / a' k' ?( w* D+ P7 O( }* U) V7 a C7 N" J4 G, L9 @$ I0 f1 U, @1 D/ @3 D
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 0 n6 S" L& u% f7 D+ U. E1 e4 n . r+ ~6 k0 i; U3 }$ y2 u) E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。 ; a7 S9 B6 \ r: t- c: @4 z/ W% E e
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. "6 l* s$ e( T5 `3 K6 m9 _
; ~3 E- ^! L6 u' Z% 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。* d% p* g+ y5 }
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ; j# _* B. e6 ^. s9 }" \7 J# ^% X F) F
“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$ Q; s5 ^- w* 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." a( h( }$ G' B# k( |) n