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：( Y" X; Z0 H3 d' v" e. j4 a6 t9 a
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生命就是小甜饼： + Q2 ?' s2 j7 B! ]/ _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., [1 P0 V3 t) Z M5 Z# X7 B% L- _2 N# Y
$ V$ @2 }' T) f! [& }If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' s- X% e2 k3 y) |7 O4 f ! `! ?3 i8 w, S" o# f6 p7 y& O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。! a- J4 @ C+ p9 ?+ v
! U* D" ]# W, O- p' c7 oSome 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." }) f: a+ g* n* H5 m8 [
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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。 0 }4 O& ~. \, d! j- V6 ?! j" v1 r8 | , S, Q! j$ U0 W# G1 e, E4 _+ CA 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. 1 f9 G$ K9 ~" Z: f# A. J , E6 K( a- w4 H" c- l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。 ' m, X7 g; O+ p3 J& @# b6 f1 i8 c( }, t
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.) v4 M) W6 [1 L7 U
. v: D* X# L; f, t- A8 f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。 * t2 O1 ]; G9 e, Q3 w' O6 C& W ; ^9 Y# V; ?6 WBut 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. - P7 n& M! Q3 e6 n# A ! [: T) Z5 y% o7 E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。 & N: t% m, ?2 T. ?4 U! `: D5 Y: \ N+ n" k, o! f
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.6 r+ d6 v4 } t& R% `; I+ I
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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。) v" F, ] u* t- t
$ q$ R/ D; E- }. {) [! q; pYou 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. ! r. a q" _3 ?( i6 S# |$ t" q; y" R0 r/ e2 q
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。" \0 R; N2 I3 M8 D2 Y
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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.4 v c# }2 h; }+ }
0 L! ?2 y' ]$ v+ K3 m( a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 e- Q: T3 W9 E" E1 D+ W# t+ }$ J& l4 q6 H ?- K# W
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + D4 S7 ]8 r6 @8 ?$ t! m# p& t* B2 c
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。# v" | m8 B5 k1 U
& j! A+ Y9 {& AFor 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. "1 l3 u" X/ t" B4 I" u* M* B! _
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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。 " E4 M5 L* K, e) M' e/ T' ]$ K 2 \+ m9 k3 W# x O+ O! M; L# DTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. # q1 J6 e# a8 z' P3 y/ S3 F9 p/ ^( e 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。 # _5 h4 m( O7 n' q# C% X$ a3 ?3 U+ [- R 3 n" V+ g" ~3 _( n/ BLife. 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." ' Z4 u& A) J8 O8 t& K T, f 9 g3 a( 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”。 1 e) _3 x; M; q# ^8 \4 a1 K % J* L) s3 W+ n1 J6 n* D1 O[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html