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： ! }) @) O y5 P$ T* `4 ^& J& A k) X/ \1 X" Q8 G4 n% r生命就是小甜饼： # h H$ ^, e3 r+ lOne 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.6 ]8 l" ?( c! D3 w! X
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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”。# @1 C1 S% `; W; K5 F' {* }
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' q5 s% s f( Q d
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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。" p2 e5 H# E: ^" j* f s
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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. 2 Y4 m; k: i: K 2 [# C/ h9 R a! t4 R# k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。* j$ y+ w& J3 f
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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. . ]3 v V, ?8 Y1 s# V$ {! |, v$ S# g/ o* g3 }" 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。 4 t" c0 w+ u2 F8 Q/ Z. o- y( i7 u3 K5 y9 i0 l, ?/ O' G' S4 x3 A7 E) {
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 s& x* q. @/ y9 X0 u; c. a* E5 m6 H5 m+ _+ k4 V* j
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。 * H4 y% P3 j$ K$ Q! ]( ~0 g2 J * v4 v3 q% ?$ n& 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. R4 j6 D9 S( ?$ j6 L" P% f $ T/ j$ r5 e7 {: {1 h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。 5 z3 }5 N8 P x }. j9 i L( `3 n7 o7 s3 z& vThe 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. # Z) R. b" i) I! f( Z / H* @1 N" \% B4 i* X e6 j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。$ Q1 w! s! Y0 C4 B" S- F8 H2 a
. j! S, z. F) s* p" }& D! ^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. % Z2 r& I, S6 f& c5 K( Y- G- r3 Q" ^
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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。# B! @" x- f8 W5 X9 ^" |3 k( w
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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.2 g& l2 w5 b v! A4 S6 G. z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 \. e+ o k! n% X4 Q" `# \ w, G: n9 |7 S# f- L
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) a/ g0 ?! z! L/ {' K; U* c
" P+ v5 T) I0 A: Q7 s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。 : W3 U! ]( [% @9 D1 \( p0 `. ]" d + ?' T+ w( Z/ L+ q: QFor 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. "$ c4 ]; c- c& g I. L
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# S8 k- G& J$ K: t B
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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。! B" s* a! a) Y- N
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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." ~0 N2 D+ V& r8 k4 o $ E0 f0 ]* P+ G; u. T2 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”。 7 t1 }0 N& R# w2 ~- ` [, ]3 R * Q* S. u0 \9 Z+ O* `0 x[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html