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：" X7 B/ ^$ {: D8 o
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生命就是小甜饼： ; s8 ?: J. S' IOne 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./ D, N: _. S0 A; B) O
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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”。, Z% I, C" q/ B: p, \* m
( h9 R0 F7 G5 K, @& H; i( g. ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 M) ?6 @. H* P( ^
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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。 % M: m; o- a4 u8 o% n # `/ f/ w! d% J+ X5 q5 M" ySome 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. 4 l8 a) C& Z- \. B2 H8 a: F 5 ~, Y3 u2 x! b0 _5 o" G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。3 f8 Q2 s* o, _* I# X1 Y
( ~9 ?3 { o- t. I! T4 r- U0 ]8 SA 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. 9 K. I J( T+ Z3 b W" _ 6 J; }& g( ^; W) A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。: k: A9 |2 v+ S' e$ H( Y
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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.: s. L( r' \. n0 l @- M
5 |6 D( L3 s% I/ WBut 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) l+ r4 N/ k- I# S# H/ T* c+ {1 U, t% v) ]2 L% c$ o
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。0 ^" i, q+ M5 z6 b
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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. , B' ^: m, C5 m3 l$ n# N0 C5 V8 x
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。& ?% L. x6 \" b4 }" m
/ N7 M) y! t; Y# A N3 U# c6 IYou 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. . z) K3 p( ?1 x- z3 ~! Y 1 q% b7 S1 M" S- ]) D1 ]" M( G: o* U/ Y9 ~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。) w- B0 i$ S! X7 f# m! w! 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., K" C. ^/ w _- [
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. m4 \, G! M& l* k- j3 rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 m3 R# V% U+ @
/ u$ F+ q* T! D# ]. |( r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。 0 V9 C4 |* k9 ^+ Z) q2 L3 U& k2 t' R s: e* e. E- E& K
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. " : K c) h+ T: M* K; h/ ~3 M7 t" V# D" 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。 3 y- L. w% s3 V: g x4 u F% m- G8 b E* k' v2 X8 a- M8 M( L6 {
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' I+ L$ m0 S! v7 ?5 o
' s6 y2 |* `* x, j1 W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 - r( U/ | ] d4 E i 0 g# J5 G+ Q \ B9 X3 @) W8 {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 T# S! y+ n. K% O