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：5 ]" N6 y- i4 B# T
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生命就是小甜饼：7 i1 I$ t/ p8 T o! G/ p
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. # N$ m; K# n) @6 ^6 J5 x& L: U9 q# V ; o2 y& Z' ~4 I" t* F) V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”。6 F) t: g3 E) d+ U8 H
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 V9 F1 H" d! C
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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。/ _) y" r8 n* {* l& i3 `) G
3 V+ Z, |' o5 v4 L- I# [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. Q% o: T7 m1 T* K# Y5 K: c/ L; e/ p+ f7 A
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 n8 `& {& F3 q' n 2 b( c* _1 g* z i) VA 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.% w" \* L/ w2 t! F
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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。 5 m: ~) a0 W8 c( L # \- [# C& C0 [/ GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 \& x% v) w( @9 J
$ j- m% j ~8 y1 M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。 ( K4 H3 ?3 Z, U1 M. Q7 t$ F$ q I ' e& b) K: `' g7 vBut 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. 8 J$ D0 g2 ?! y$ ^& {3 a# w9 b6 F/ ^" M' P5 U8 ^+ I q) m0 ^
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。 5 i3 T6 R7 |6 q: n) q; m1 A; ]/ |) m# j
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. ' I1 S* a$ d/ T4 ^( L( V& e & s7 Z) M' R! J7 e; h# R4 ]* o8 L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。( P" v) E3 S" h, k5 X: U3 c
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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 l F/ ~ A0 M/ _0 L
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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。' Z' w) @3 M- N) w# E& [6 h
8 w3 z' _1 A/ }4 @0 V2 GYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 E6 t" }! J8 n# [6 m ' V9 W2 l$ E3 U- V7 b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* L8 R/ ?! J2 e, [- b5 e/ c& i/ T
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) p, E; R% `3 E1 f" B6 ?( Z, m# S$ ^ X' ^2 n5 J7 H" ?' F+ G5 E# S
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。 # r9 y7 w; n( S: O- k' k L) |) p/ a; |. [* _7 [# YFor 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. " 1 K( {4 [$ a7 ^1 z, a# R3 @' H1 m3 {+ w5 F( R9 X! y
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。 9 @" x0 p7 U6 _# }" G ! } M3 I8 u3 @3 q# C$ _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " O; H, p, ~& P) L" X/ p( x; @1 B2 ?+ P: Q) a
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" K S! Y% W G/ l2 G9 x% n
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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." ) g( { l2 ^$ k3 [: \# |7 a) ?3 k8 t7 a& j" q4 w
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”。 ' J4 a5 K2 z( U1 M" k1 c4 L ' @. f( j+ M! r[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html