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：4 ?5 w4 M) D: `
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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. k$ v4 b$ ]' {" x8 @' k/ @8 F" A4 U; Z& ~# _" w/ P( o) c
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”。 ! b% l0 G6 R5 X4 n; ?8 Z ; ]' e; q' X8 f. M @ v1 PIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 j9 w2 D# C$ h# c. J
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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。 9 \( P% M; {) e: x: k1 m, i8 T) {: f! c9 ^3 T8 Z7 h( I) u
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.3 [0 v1 `' e& @$ c* \# y
2 C( {& u& X7 m' ^' r% Z, |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. 6 ^6 h! A' [* W5 M3 t: v( }, }- _
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。 # J: J% [4 h2 z0 P- X y4 x5 [/ b( u* i7 W5 F' T
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ! W5 I7 \7 L) l4 v# E! F- Q 5 D' f1 m1 [" C& U. ^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。 6 B& o W/ j+ u6 J% k; c5 k & C" G2 A; y# d SBut 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.8 u9 o1 Q+ M- S7 s# d9 q( q6 }
* n' r! a. O# ~/ m2 g5 cThe 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.: k2 L a# e3 @
' [7 B5 C0 \6 ?$ w5 B5 L! [/ G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。 T. b& m4 T9 Z( m5 Q8 A7 l
) b/ r5 y- r- T$ Q6 j5 R( J ]4 NYou 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. " ]/ y6 o+ u0 \$ k & ` C' G! g& c- K" M; m: Z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。 + q( B% _ Q$ c/ R- M: j" N9 f+ b5 D: [& ?" O4 [0 Z T$ f
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : b- T; `; U4 s' D' i 2 {/ e( P& G3 Y4 N你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 h) D' [& o" O& r" l
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 Y: q! L3 M* I _% ?
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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 v9 s7 o2 |- u' {& x % h3 A" w$ k5 F# H$ a5 UFor 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. ") O9 _4 t5 x s, H% x
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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。 + g8 f/ Q, U: n$ T* F5 F( E& ` . h* e. b0 _( q* eTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 c! ~! l S% [4 M+ o) V( T4 U; a5 y4 [
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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。' ?+ ^* n, U. K/ s/ C5 F
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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: [( Q) j8 ]' V, \ : f. M ^$ |' n3 S, h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”。 9 @) s( k! Q; ?& f4 | ' e' J8 o+ j3 Y: r% ~ @4 ?8 a5 R[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html