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：% Q1 C8 ^0 L G6 r+ R" E
8 `: [# k4 j# E4 P# o生命就是小甜饼： , q: n3 j6 b, t7 SOne 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. V2 t3 @9 f* e! a j9 L 7 y! m5 e- q& y9 Q: H1 V1 t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”。! |: Z. r7 C1 `! G |4 L
# P+ p: l% J8 U- I" F* dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing./ h& ?+ m p2 }7 a( l
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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。( ~2 Y7 ^3 o3 {) J7 I
4 [. d" f; W0 wSome 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.- y1 T% h. @ H
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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。& \+ J: c; i+ J. B8 x/ h4 I6 _
( y: L5 [4 C. ], Q! wA 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.% L9 \0 K3 r+ r! n; M
- D' y* y: K% t2 n) \, d6 B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。. X7 O7 m$ |' j& s' L5 Z( `0 R
0 F5 Y1 _/ R1 u* uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ T E7 {3 ^* b! B0 ]2 h2 N1 u/ u; J- D
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。- b$ g. f, a+ d; i& \) M
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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. $ r) u- i! |! @4 a* q+ ~' o" }4 Y$ B$ n6 J% ^7 P4 v! K* B5 j' e: p
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。3 W+ y( ~: d# a
& {7 w" }7 C( k2 S1 N7 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. - U" I2 g/ M* P: {7 i7 o5 D 7 J$ j: s, A( z) B* ^. I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。 " a S9 R7 g! s0 x6 S* s4 g1 Z0 o/ D# H% k2 ?. c6 T8 }% e! I$ ^8 c
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. . D! p# c+ B9 [
, L9 G7 ~8 s7 F P# I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。% t5 X, _& n. b) G+ |# s. F2 p5 v7 ?7 e
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." t9 U: S7 L2 h" U# I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 e% X; b# K/ C4 U0 k0 e7 H
, x* x! n `' |4 zHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ v8 Y: W3 c: u( i t6 L' i! l5 s6 t: `
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。 . `6 M x3 H$ K , b- _ B( h2 u# DFor 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. "+ x1 D( i+ [. g8 ^, L& W; p
7 @) V& B, x' q ?0 O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。, \$ t" y& M2 K
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( g" n* h( U3 p: r8 x# H) X
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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。, {4 M+ n r5 G: P& C8 ?. T. ?% n
: O5 C7 \; i1 F* d7 O5 D. fLife. 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."$ T# N* m0 ^3 }$ F
% V4 V {6 P1 p( |: D! ]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”。 0 T9 t. M& j& ~5 j: A n 9 G+ R ]" U+ l7 e[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html