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：. k" f/ x4 X! o( H" i1 Y" _
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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. : O' _9 v1 |4 C7 `7 a) b9 i, ?6 m y1 n3 d* d
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”。) [: w$ Q" x, _' c1 S9 B& G
0 e1 S3 N, ]) d! CIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.* {7 C/ w3 i" A! L8 D
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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。 3 a+ d# i2 h+ Z, j$ U; |4 V' b! p4 d+ x& b
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. . K U* X) c9 D/ S! y& s 3 u9 x8 d. U4 P' J. _1 q3 u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。- ^& [0 l# f1 \8 q( u
2 Y4 ~1 {" V8 _* w$ QA 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.- K( v" i' a3 w) a% d0 C/ F
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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。' e) ?4 l2 e b' p! Y3 o: [3 T+ u
: \4 R; r' u% f; k, t: xWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) D" W0 J0 p- `9 q5 D1 t9 G
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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。8 B0 V# b8 o. u" X. \
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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./ D8 n- p! B8 q) E" \3 x% [3 D
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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 ]' a% V* m9 N# ^: K( c5 C$ ? + ^: w5 C p" Z- i L" T! EThe 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. : T1 u N7 g" t 1 e/ z9 f! k2 p2 O- ?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。 ' s! F6 I \' W6 q$ F/ X- S* U9 ~" S# x6 _% X; D
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. 7 _0 r) a0 o+ k% G
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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$ A+ A. f* P2 T * T% z4 `* c- \$ K. K; gYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 \2 V8 ^& g$ f2 V, V0 F' }& Z4 U6 ~- I# \1 V9 ~1 E
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 [* j7 x3 Q& Z9 n
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( @$ ~; Y( l, N& o2 x0 t- z9 K
6 p3 w n) R5 a! k) c% y5 q& x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。2 g- e P# Z$ h4 ^7 J- D0 @( L
. w, W) Z* i- w& y. 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. " % q* D7 w! u- Q0 d5 F4 C- I! b- r0 k% i: {. ?- ~
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。 ; w- ^: ~0 z$ X. D3 C. [6 h1 h# {& d8 A8 p
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." l' ]* \' F- i+ I: w
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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。7 d* G; N3 i8 y* E
& i1 `, f( [' A1 }0 ALife. 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."* |( q% D* ]- S j- p# _8 U4 }
2 `" C6 s' R- Q% `1 \% l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”。 / }2 Q# I. k/ Y ? O1 Q9 k' d/ A* x& a[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html