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： 2 a# L* x& j% {2 \% |8 \) k- y5 p# t1 w$ K& P3 y, X
生命就是小甜饼： ! R V+ k6 T; j# y5 W: p3 {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. 4 z0 X' k9 g% C4 @; g0 f ) _" j5 }1 Q9 R; @& `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”。' x9 \8 m8 E) \6 f* L- A9 D
2 _- _. C% H+ J8 U! WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ) A' W+ Z9 v" e7 `# J& d2 d) h2 k) i$ I* g9 u
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。8 e+ T0 c2 c, T$ E% ~7 f
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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. " p* I* B+ m- w$ j- R k* {, \ e! {# D+ c- w U7 z' C
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 d$ Y6 _- w: Q6 q* B: V" u' I- f7 e
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.: y3 ?& T+ C* N4 A6 {) y
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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。 + ~8 K7 s+ K) g/ Y- z8 T3 @+ `2 K/ D, F' @0 d8 R! n* D
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ' U( y) c' O6 L w7 C3 M k9 |1 N3 J7 q# i
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。 $ q# U7 L+ \6 I0 u/ e3 \7 s$ y4 ^
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.7 }, l" w% `6 }0 R
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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。/ X# Z2 G4 U; m0 E4 T
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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. 4 e7 I0 D* ]9 s3 _, t/ w! K# n; l* l4 J0 V- \' W
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。 ( R; ?/ b" C$ P3 c& s% f3 p3 W& Z) u
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 D) V% o1 X8 a- a4 \! H2 \9 ~" ^4 M
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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。0 g6 T: o0 [$ }- ]0 C' H- n
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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. 9 L1 F/ Z: Z8 ]4 G& Y * a- N8 R9 @" R+ A4 N/ K' V5 u你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 . K4 I$ U! l& h& A' y# L# {; R, l# {: @6 h
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! Y- Q1 Z7 V( s& U' @5 c
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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。7 y9 `% J m. f1 A
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For 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. " 5 l4 D: s/ `& j/ f7 {5 w, B. u! Z6 ?6 F, f. m1 E+ ^) Y) C
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。 : ~/ n8 n/ Q8 h0 z+ A# t! y5 G) P6 ]6 U3 n; u2 h
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' p/ D/ w$ p# k! y0 n) {# j; }2 N4 t }) f* k) P! l) i“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 v' D+ q d/ Q& L8 [' r
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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." - q3 E/ s5 b& P ' U$ V2 ?( q5 Y* Z. h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”。 * c3 y9 _. S6 q( W* x/ V1 y& ` % n1 M# w" @9 c( E7 ?1 {8 n[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html