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：* a, W, q9 w8 q
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生命就是小甜饼： / B. k" L+ x0 j# q* I5 [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./ a' h) s, g$ I m
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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”。! V n( I6 E5 e D8 n/ j$ y4 ?
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." K+ b$ }& G) {5 h' O
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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。 , H! k+ K2 [) e/ {. C7 B4 X- e6 g/ {+ U. M
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.9 ] B: D7 S* c
; b+ x0 ^3 t i9 KA 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./ [6 }4 \9 D" r* V
+ Q9 ]9 Z4 I& [( i3 }2 H3 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。 " I3 `* b9 Z5 M$ y9 y # ]6 N7 n5 k5 {% Z& \" GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ) @" J+ U3 S3 Z. F3 Z T2 X" v' d( h9 ~$ a- Q U d# L& s
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。 # ~% P; {! _- ]+ a. O& p- n8 R+ ?4 [' _" s% y
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.3 q* U2 L( X% h( |: h" ~. ^
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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。 6 U* l8 T8 Z E. R & |7 m7 h. L5 p: h& S Q) `4 V$ zThe 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.$ B% g. g7 l" u& X6 X+ ?
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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。4 C/ w8 y0 W8 ?. G% M9 Q+ U& @* H
1 [! [# N6 [. ]9 `; r! W6 oYou 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. ) z' G, B& |9 j* l& j" s/ m( H/ p$ W' ^! O! c4 S& ^
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。1 M+ @! J, w/ R) v2 R
5 y6 y4 U8 D: G; s$ @! NYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) I1 P% ~! F6 g! v2 U0 W& H6 K+ j% O, D6 A
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 q- U9 \- K1 L. ^6 R! W# J
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + V- b( Z) i9 c2 O9 d! }% ?/ x. q4 B+ L/ N( E* B
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。& d+ ]. u6 \0 o, K+ a
2 I, a; b, S9 o$ lFor 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. "/ v- m" }" l/ {( O
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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。 8 ]) t1 k" ^8 X9 L" p 6 E+ V9 q- E6 zTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# {- N& W; {+ x& F9 g
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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。 + Y2 i+ l1 f7 d! F( A0 @5 R2 y2 g2 d8 Y6 [
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." w& [% [$ i: L' i' X) ~3 I/ J2 ?6 g& w: Q/ o1 Y3 s2 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”。 - S9 ^2 K: Q( q D+ u3 ^ ' p5 L$ t( G" X% i% v9 D[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html