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：* Q. I5 t, g9 K- @& h" W
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生命就是小甜饼：5 [7 L7 z3 `7 p! z) ^4 {' w- F& T
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.9 w5 C; G' k2 l# W u4 ~% y
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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”。- S& X2 Y' c0 [
1 Y9 C8 Q" [( t* u4 I9 l0 L& }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." a6 k: d; K+ b
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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。 0 A3 P6 H M5 Y8 p) P 2 S& T. o4 F: i, O1 _! j; DSome 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. & `; G$ c5 J: @- F$ H/ ?9 X& H8 ?5 ?1 E ^
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。 6 S; Y3 O/ h/ b( D2 m! b: \& j$ i* b! d, {7 {* H
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. % J' o, m' `3 ?2 Z; ~- [ / e3 I9 q; V8 J5 {% \0 R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。2 d2 b+ b, V+ a! a
" A5 z2 F0 s3 O; E. XWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.! }5 a4 n% Z- J. j) a; p/ l
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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。 ; b2 _- F0 u5 C2 m2 @! _: U' S% X+ C" q+ T* E$ t
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.% k5 S& U2 x Y
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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。& o" u4 P. a9 b- T2 C& v
, a3 |" d# A8 {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.9 s* G0 e6 v; [) 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。 3 Y' l+ x( y2 s/ ~8 C, f) Z+ Q 1 J6 `8 o- V/ ]4 u8 u. H8 d0 SYou 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. # d5 r. F0 t+ y4 Q ( C' q/ {: o: ^- u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。 % m1 i1 h" z; I \& F p0 B7 m# ?' U0 T% w
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. % T& k. \+ z1 L! j2 c+ d0 q! C' b# o; J9 q
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 f& @% }5 R" t- P5 r* _4 | p- A2 f
! z6 c7 K+ }- c: o% |Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.9 W6 D% ]; \& F( u1 ~! D
5 @' A0 V, g. A% 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。 ; L8 q, n* C$ a # ^8 i" s8 E% v. x) oFor 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. " O! Q5 Z, C' d0 a% F5 Z2 M* I O& ^5 W$ ~# U3 I, l n
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 g2 @/ P# [3 W) F. o( c/ \% J/ j& O; @) P3 A9 `
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., L- y) W/ M7 `3 [4 ~; s/ g- t: u
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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。& b. V1 E' g. `: d/ r. G* N) j
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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."5 W( h# ~# s) m0 \7 Y
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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”。 3 i3 _- A8 P4 I5 @$ y' {8 E9 B5 u' H" ?" F ( U9 _# P! m' D C3 H+ A, a[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html