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 w# i2 O* ~7 @$ X
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生命就是小甜饼： 4 L: _0 E2 Z6 y' h3 |1 FOne 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. 0 X& c% U, C/ @9 C1 z; [) u. O ! C) T# I8 E4 ]' A$ U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”。 ' V, s8 b8 C/ P# g. }& s" ^' u: `5 A# ~' Z
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.0 ?6 i# {7 r" N
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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。 ; i6 S- U$ o- \1 l+ s7 P& m& r2 J% x V( M9 t4 G$ Q# [
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.; B8 v% z: q+ {* j5 w7 S
4 H7 V; v: F: f# }. s/ o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。 3 Q# u9 J: R- |$ n9 s0 H1 O 5 T: [2 l! s; ?3 n9 p- ?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. " e! z' z0 H7 N2 j9 Q3 p; S$ | ' F; m2 S( F* }$ D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。2 F/ y: b/ c0 G) {
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " y; g: f, E# P: m* F5 x6 G( U: s7 W* w 7 j8 H ~2 K" v9 ]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。& w0 w0 w* U( s
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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. 8 z5 x) R9 a$ X. x* B ) w& S' T1 x9 ~6 t1 g+ P7 B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。 7 y# {" k$ O$ v/ z: Z* ?. c9 L+ h * H, D! o" U: B3 RThe 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. ) ]7 x6 W3 Y* w, D$ X J7 _ 7 S& i5 s6 L' L+ P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。 7 x) J: i5 h5 ]1 P ) e" s- u, F+ {% W DYou 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. # _; V8 }# {; T; |4 l% O% ?: z2 d + v5 ~% \" s m' ^. m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。4 [5 V4 H9 t6 T( g( Q& V! w# t
% ?" P9 c. J8 U" u7 QYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& v. \1 \% O, Z- {) q1 ]
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; N# } H' P" ]& p9 J7 M2 [3 _
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ M9 [9 E. F: K" B5 P$ ]: G , a3 A4 m9 G, B' Z1 B, l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。: ^& e' {) f; z. ]; y' X! j1 f
) O1 ], I. `$ ]4 `$ rFor 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. " 0 k2 l; n1 c, v" k5 F x 2 p& a2 R, i; w9 A* J' M- B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。) E: \7 s: ?. Y1 w) y' f# k
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., m: G E9 C! J+ }/ ]4 d
_- v; E) ]) }“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。; L" Q. H. Z" _1 H: Y# o
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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." / S: s: K4 k. _$ Z t5 M$ X; u & p0 J. O9 f, j5 Y3 ?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 ?0 z8 i; s$ O& e3 C ) ^2 t, M5 S) k0 a5 `" {[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html