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： ^1 x$ s8 @ y
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生命就是小甜饼：- P4 Q9 n7 y3 E! k7 D4 A
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. , j8 C6 E, F5 N7 ^6 N+ h$ w& x, B! A - z$ A( D$ f/ R$ h3 {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”。" K7 O S0 |7 X
4 H. C' r. x5 p5 N: v, lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; v$ `" B8 z' V' p' @% \/ y3 \2 _, 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。+ o' O- G1 l+ C( A* V
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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.# }8 \& \8 c2 O) _
3 @/ A! J" s; X8 `! r- M- ]8 W3 j6 c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。 ( K2 C; J4 V" N8 w$ Q 9 ~1 s9 b3 ?$ ?5 ~* T/ @3 {& PA 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.# a' l* E, S, G5 g. C3 ?
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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。 , L P0 \) @6 n: P+ M, J- u1 M! i3 z: Q
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 6 _; O7 x7 Q7 b/ @$ k" |8 E3 _' p. B9 F$ e T
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。3 ~3 m* p2 c; ~& M% h9 X/ Z0 v
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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. 6 i* w$ o& S4 ? . l: O$ Z3 K( D3 M5 P5 I0 d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。, z- A/ j) h1 @% z. s& X. E
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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. / G( R% x L- p0 {1 Y5 D( r / L3 ?8 E6 C' s w, B( @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。9 o' ?+ D. q6 @! J, ?; C
% M0 o- |6 Z1 ]1 f; vYou 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. 0 _8 d3 ] I( u0 L1 J6 [* m; L
3 l. \! v( |* O' A, k: Q+ TYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ }( t9 R- L1 [5 U) J( Q! w6 P* Z- t
3 G. x' V# P4 c4 V. G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 w% H$ k, Y! B, \* K 3 \0 o8 s0 O4 i+ AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 `% E% W" ~7 D. j! B; a+ L: d! S
% X% A, d* d5 y, v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。* C+ C, Y7 T2 I; p
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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. "' v# i/ o. a1 ^
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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。 6 f2 D! S9 }5 B* v9 O) f; x2 _) x# ?0 l8 ?: ]
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. % U8 O! |9 h% y; O" S- U* K* N% d& s4 l# a5 C
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。% ?+ c7 N7 Q: f5 H. L7 h) Y
& B) Q! z9 i7 e) @5 L# hLife. 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."% F: e2 w* o# B
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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”。 - A) }: Y/ R; v 4 ~4 h5 z% v) d3 x$ R& i[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html