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： C& i1 |) y6 J, z9 l: u ' x3 D$ ^8 I$ a# [. D4 P+ U% N1 E生命就是小甜饼： ; M- Z. T L5 ^7 W* Q9 y2 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.4 r& }* T1 I* U( w8 a7 I
- W/ T9 d6 H: b7 V+ n% ?7 t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”。 " x1 _7 i/ X# [' r, H; R6 {& c+ C2 a& N S# G9 `; V& }5 \
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.1 X8 B! C# q/ q* v3 \
3 ]+ g( D4 X2 h! t, S; `. w' C4 J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。 5 G% I. Q& o( _6 N5 ~3 q. c& I3 Z h% z V1 G0 W0 w$ {+ C
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. & Y/ g% x. S9 u/ f( X* b9 G% d4 ]1 l" l' W
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。 8 Y$ \( _! c" _ " z6 ?7 y8 G7 ^+ M8 Y# c- D4 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.. K# ^' w; J1 D$ \
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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。 - y4 P0 p; o* m( X6 b5 h& G' j* F
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ F2 o# R: l) k4 o5 ~- ]- b" a# u5 @9 o, j: x
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。! C- s8 F, b% l2 `* e% P
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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. $ l6 n0 v1 f# w- J" Z" K7 F; u( f* m' m. 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。# I# m+ l. D) G( F
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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. 8 r& t" [: L' R ( Z i/ t+ }& u2 U" R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。 5 H* }, o7 s, f, Q$ ~* F9 C2 ^ d' _5 o; b' | d$ u7 @7 b
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. 5 {9 @& g9 o9 J
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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。6 B! H: E9 p9 b) P, ^- M1 P
, D7 k" i% W' B/ L5 v2 p, @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 c3 p/ U {7 k2 {
6 |0 W( J, }. D8 g! O# n+ p你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 f8 B7 W1 J# W( }& D' V' M7 X* w
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 ?$ i9 Y I) B" {. ~/ V * R0 R3 D; t) j( z* ?* u! Z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。 " y" p/ }$ @6 G; K1 P 7 e$ g& m4 D- y2 ?6 R3 xFor 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' B, z7 L( A1 v) v5 s9 _ " o+ m% n! e7 @8 |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。- t+ q( J; W* `* }0 y& j
+ x$ |( J% F* X! r+ K3 E) f* T3 qTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. n* d. ?$ l! t) k! Z( X3 c3 V" F/ f$ m* ?. t
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。4 g+ i+ V9 I0 M& z H# p) _3 B
t3 C0 o) f4 u* Q5 u+ [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." . ~5 ^2 r% i. M; m( ? , r' c/ u. b* u& n生命。生命，无论如何你拥有生命。有小甜饼也罢，没有小甜饼也罢，幸福与小甜饼并非息息相关，而是与生命的存在有关。可是，时光一去不复返，谁又能让时光倒流呢?”他停顿了一下，若有所思，说：“该死，我觉得生命就是那块小甜饼”。 p$ ~. Z3 X% r - a6 L9 o6 O* O, J8 j[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html