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：# s, }1 I2 m- i8 G; b
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生命就是小甜饼： 1 n) q/ k- O* @1 T" K3 F3 HOne 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.. F3 I# K1 h" t: ]& ] E
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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”。9 x4 n0 P9 }" K# ~5 g
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , K: U; C/ O! D% |/ L1 p7 W x- m; u$ }5 u6 Z6 D, l/ X8 O3 _9 m# h
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 u+ n; X1 u" y' }/ G
, u+ ]' t; ]6 M# \, n4 n& M+ d1 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. % F z' T* m& Z 4 h! o8 r- }6 w# s( 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。 7 k6 ~; E% Y8 { `0 e" Q" Y/ {) h, B4 \& ]
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.; X+ H- X4 u8 q4 @6 u
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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。! x' Q9 y- w% s P2 \
+ m, N& H8 W$ `, qWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. o: A! ?: l, F7 c6 I3 V9 ^% [$ D5 I9 C" q6 Q O
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。 ! H- h0 ~) T3 m. A, M |) Z5 m ~7 x% ?( n2 @
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. : e* f# X/ {, B8 y# M4 W 1 X! S% Y2 D& B# K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。 . v' v4 u: O0 ~( s4 B , N+ O/ y4 @( AThe 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.- [7 u+ V( J- k9 N: _' M0 h: m
# ~! i6 m2 V7 I) 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。 + F# K2 F- a8 \+ w 0 v: M' I1 e/ g# M8 `% n8 S X7 ^+ t% ?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. ; h# i" x1 c" k0 q+ l* \. w9 k9 p0 T1 B6 |- E& ]
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。 ; j- N3 Z" [9 w: D9 q% s# `0 [# ]; ~& n: n$ w& X
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : [+ X# o8 x! t( ~6 F. I% [9 ~) [% V
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 + O" U ?% a/ _ ) H# @( w5 o |' \" @) VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ! W* x# B) v8 @6 g+ T: g, t% O' m/ @% N4 q; [
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。9 k( @0 [: i. w: F3 P- P' r3 v
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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. " $ P. O: `) G2 Q 4 {/ g# H5 p* W* A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。 ' [+ |$ C, }( t# Z+ W& `- ]0 ^ |, }
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 u, P# U, f1 y4 U9 l# |+ A2 k
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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。 " E; Y1 [/ O( Z+ J7 J% q8 _ " g' I8 D# I+ V' L6 K1 d/ ^9 SLife. 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." - O, d# S! v* Z- J# T. Q% J' C' u/ c3 x J, I2 @
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”。 / B% q1 `- ^" X1 i5 D - k8 y, K5 x7 [- X[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html