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： ' t1 [# ^% u. `1 J$ M # z) E" Q) d2 K7 P; \生命就是小甜饼： + c7 n& r* n J3 sOne 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. ( r z7 {' e3 w+ G2 ^+ [- ?( P4 k( [0 f% f( [3 }* o
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”。, E( U+ n( z1 p! T
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. W+ }4 H' }' X/ t3 H5 Z
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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。4 [. w. m$ w0 L9 H
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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." U. q' E0 f+ E* V, F# ?
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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。 ( [% e5 |+ e4 W) b# y1 @* ?3 i& Q + _/ @6 }+ |( v, H( C4 V1 FA 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. * @7 W+ h) p" A z5 J ( v+ G$ j" i/ ~) E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。7 [, o# v" u8 n$ k6 J3 j' |
, ]5 W, ` }" x% s4 \/ p# n4 F6 dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( T7 B/ [' g7 ]4 U$ [7 b
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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。 * d& X; b! N% w0 w w% b: F3 P2 @5 O% t0 \/ A8 Q& a8 m5 J
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.1 l7 R: g2 p) W. ^! B
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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。& V+ W& A |, z7 Z) E
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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.& u2 l* t/ [4 ~) P! s: P; V% F
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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。; B' e" I$ b! @/ }- ^9 d
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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. 5 }. |8 V- m+ V% |
7 ], f4 c7 U( f% s) j- ^5 h: c) j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。& S8 f( W$ v1 v$ b5 X: s
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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. 3 ?% u' C: n8 ^. g+ i# X* Q" K+ F 5 r2 x" r! L8 l你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 d2 c- }9 M$ S4 ?/ y- w9 ?8 D, T
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; b4 z/ b @+ D( e9 \( d: W% m& L4 s& p S* |8 R
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。3 t7 y- i5 }" d! v9 M
4 f$ M' a# M% CFor 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( T! k- [; N 9 ^5 o: n Z5 T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。 A- L! T) z' b$ Y
+ a, R& H" m1 h: qTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . g; @; S% t6 h! z) C # Q# \0 _9 n/ o& e' 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。 # E2 E3 H. M+ w( d* F5 B, z 0 G' @. x; ?- w# v! q6 x1 NLife. 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."% [7 X4 J3 j1 m7 f- T5 ~/ Z
" O3 f9 w) l' X: 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”。 & s" T. }% W# f& r7 \& }0 X6 q6 {: a9 c 7 I7 J1 H- u! e: T3 G4 D[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html