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：' s0 C {' n& y3 z7 P8 ]+ l1 {
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生命就是小甜饼： ' w6 ^5 z% _4 B9 [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.7 K$ t/ j2 Y W$ U
+ t5 n0 c, M5 K$ P9 [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”。 + G. ^5 Y: U: `/ T7 E 1 E2 l: C8 m6 A0 Z% ~) J0 CIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # S b# B1 V. X: \, O6 x# N. Z6 D- L
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 M/ n F! e& {5 g( ] P( W2 B$ O8 u2 d. w+ |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 R( u$ [+ j+ U1 Y* l1 O
% y4 B7 i+ Z4 e! K# c! }5 ]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。 + n, Q0 m/ M& ? ; a9 i( B, f7 p5 I* A3 c! V0 XA 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. $ i) L* y/ [8 D" S g2 }2 T& q. _7 W# S; p6 v6 T3 s; n. M& a
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。0 p( f/ J) ^; P2 y6 C, W6 L( o' L4 O
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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.3 J T4 h$ I. s! W' m; [- K; l
) O! T, q2 M# k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# v6 L8 c' u& Q- I2 B* s
7 N4 A0 g; w$ v. ~: MBut 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.* l/ C6 x" m" C' h
- B0 d* _7 _5 c/ t5 w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。 : \$ p4 `. E# v0 c U$ X1 U! X7 [/ F$ z6 c; T
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. % L6 Y7 s8 Y7 K/ w% e9 Z: ^+ _' t6 o f" r: a- ^
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 J) {0 z+ [( ~: g / H2 }7 G: @/ v$ v( TYou 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. # H) Y W6 K$ b ( u8 O2 D1 q. D, J' p6 i; {! L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。 $ m$ a, x" r+ o+ C& g % b) z* q. Z$ ]% Q4 kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- i1 s+ l0 @ X0 E% q, O; _$ M1 Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: L( N" h! t; i" d: e7 s8 {
- S( k! l3 I$ i8 G: uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 k3 O: |! ^, q- h1 g
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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。 4 v: X6 ^( b# h( A" M . f1 ]6 T% B0 Y' h1 i+ Q8 E" q( YFor 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. "6 B$ T3 b9 q2 c( p# a( G
% W B, T2 p1 ?: E4 u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。2 `. W" k; D& v
, K/ u7 x8 r3 z. v* qTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., f1 f% G* G3 x, X2 u- F
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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。 % f7 I7 B9 C6 z 1 z7 Q% g- O6 T( S0 D% qLife. 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."% ?, F8 l5 [1 C
8 s, V1 \9 u) l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”。 4 t' I5 {) ]! o' n& Z) F! M ) l' h- f$ c* f/ b/ d[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html