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： 3 y( @4 s, w \: k+ K% {6 r " f' p5 O3 q& Y k; S. M+ V7 N, h生命就是小甜饼： ) W! u6 H3 u9 A5 }: u b" COne 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." p- u6 R+ l+ U. i( P
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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”。7 g4 Y8 S' l& D* ~+ I3 i, F
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. N& Q5 n! ]' M4 [* a' ?
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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。$ m3 A7 t$ d! C B, J
5 ]) G" F2 B# c" M" qSome 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.# V3 L, t: j" \ ^, Y9 [
+ s* Z/ g) _* 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。 6 C: O' S% [; a; R- _$ m/ P6 e2 u4 u9 P5 @% e* Z8 f
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. ( N: o5 s* W* T1 S0 m- o' t, j( v! }5 j" g" ^ u+ G
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。 8 j7 p. @- l, y3 ? 3 \% j8 f8 L! ?1 R) M/ F% i! r" dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% H- N. j% }8 F! \/ F4 f
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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。# w7 ^) _ z% a$ H5 k2 d7 N
) \9 @1 C9 L A( CBut 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.& a+ i8 W2 P+ T# G' J6 p# G8 J3 `$ t
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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。 9 C$ N* F+ U0 U9 X' I/ r1 J% q" M$ {7 }" ], O7 X6 {: ~+ }# F/ M
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. 0 `) l' D0 |; ~/ F- e ; ~. h& H& B+ J3 E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。8 S" x8 f4 h' M7 C7 e* A% Y& {
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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. $ O8 V; ]7 Y9 v# `7 l$ `0 }4 o# f1 A i5 @
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。' C9 k2 Z! k7 J9 e" t
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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. / o" S9 w' f7 O/ Y: N. |+ j8 o8 O 6 y3 y3 q6 V/ i E1 R7 D* j- A& x你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ' U# A) I, e% p0 s- P" e$ y& k/ \9 O- V
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 Q1 X! {( Q0 S; n; P
3 B d' W4 p. 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。 - a1 J( B8 c2 H7 D! F$ C+ A( h3 M9 P
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. " ) c d: H% t* }/ `; V ' Y& [4 D9 `" F8 g: s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。) g" ~6 c ~$ M% X; U
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 K, u" y1 d% A9 |& J) q8 L% i/ G0 {6 k1 Z# k
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 0 L$ s; E Q* k e( S( W- _( C. H) M9 I6 x3 ^' B, u2 w4 l, @
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." . I* N( |; y% `7 A/ p6 q9 W5 X, H1 q2 m( z3 `9 b
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”。 ) q6 i& Y# X* y }& N1 Z% f 2 m3 k+ y* G- [5 I5 }( }$ F1 m; k[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html