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： 6 m" t( b4 u8 c% T& p) }4 O7 t8 V! J3 T7 X) k
生命就是小甜饼：+ H* e! }/ l4 r6 G" o
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.' \0 p' V" M6 d- A* ?/ L
2 f5 ]6 G; |8 ]$ ? y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”。 * W/ g W* r2 H. W4 Z7 s' U1 ~9 o. W( L7 a6 U8 z: k
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 V H. ^! O6 M8 q. f3 O9 v5 p4 s
) v8 H7 L ]0 G t' U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。) S& i$ `, U: C, r/ @" d
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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.+ M7 A7 o: c9 n; U% i
* i" s1 H3 I5 m1 T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。 % _5 b! ?# G5 m" ~" b . i2 d0 ~ a# X9 A) O5 I# DA 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. 1 ^! k: n5 u7 N( V% U+ C6 k) R; Q9 o: X
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。- _8 n& A$ S4 a9 {4 ]/ L: n6 @! p
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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. , f: }) \- m( P6 e; R! d/ ~/ _* i 6 H$ M( Y5 Q+ `6 U1 b6 W5 I) R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。* X/ w2 W; p/ c* g' S
* A: u5 Q! R7 r q7 N6 _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. ) h" M g9 l, E8 M! S. w4 x. W5 W8 a5 Q( {
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。 * [; Z2 q. h* g/ L' A8 L3 r1 B3 J C, V1 e* [7 l1 I6 c$ a1 t2 e* H
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.# M0 v% d* \; }* R0 ]2 b) A$ ?
* e8 G- E& o& \% D4 u0 V% R1 T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。 R5 b3 V, B5 [3 Q7 K- i9 f 2 u4 L& O0 Y1 ^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. ! D' B/ S2 S1 Y8 n6 @) H0 D+ S4 [. W( M" q+ t* t" S, f! {
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。4 G9 Z3 Y) Q& G9 D
( _& _6 {! R) T# yYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. j) j2 K j9 m+ w% {0 ]/ W 4 y' I! G3 k" ?3 M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 ~- [# Z/ y1 U: ^' J4 i9 O, N5 L0 j$ h {
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. - H. u: @+ E+ k# J& E" M4 j6 V 6 i$ v1 _! f: Y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。+ S* q) z2 e o/ E7 m; S
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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. " 9 c5 y! G; z3 w/ E5 m- S ! P5 |; R; t$ U/ N+ j' B+ O$ [$ r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。 ) ~# b! V9 K" l# b6 ]" o+ [( L8 R$ p E
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 o: l' m7 \+ o# r# Z1 I
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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。& H! `0 `& L j: j; Q% ?- U' ^
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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."! F1 W ^+ ]0 p) ^* ^( f