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： r* M' B0 d( h' q
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生命就是小甜饼： / \) U. n7 n4 o& `4 w4 COne 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.' }- @* i( n1 l$ K7 s+ u" e& W
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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”。9 e% |1 Z" m) I* r& G: {+ j) t$ |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ \4 h" ]$ I7 o7 p8 _/ F
& D" x+ }* x; Q; s( I0 g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。 ! b0 b3 |" y ?& ]2 i% o, f q5 \
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./ B9 G+ t7 s; L0 B7 U8 C
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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。6 @! ^# S' F; D4 D
! _' W% `4 ~0 t# |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.$ ]* ?' u" ]8 x! \% Z3 }6 g
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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。 ; a" M! U/ j: F2 X. y& d# E9 _" a) b; N( R
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ( }2 H. E0 w* |1 C* W6 u$ N 0 b0 l$ }) m+ ]+ \* a" Z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。 : V5 v9 x- B6 H/ B! ?! N5 W$ T) m5 J; i: V% V3 q/ l$ k! l
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. * u0 \0 I/ z3 k4 T+ V, H" H $ ]* L+ }, J" |; ~+ K; D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 R" x; b' N1 y/ O& X% Z% t: w
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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./ k4 B# I" e3 n( l! D( N
! P" S) @/ W0 N' q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。1 F; B$ q A3 T# p' ?: e1 n! ?
) z8 }( ?! O6 l' |+ \1 b8 D. s$ _3 `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. ) R9 A0 s& d3 D- H% r* C$ C' Q ) z! a! Q2 @; D3 n0 s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。 / J* l4 ]1 @3 j v: U7 r! a: e7 U% h+ c! s
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& I2 R& j4 ?: Z+ }) f
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* ]7 F f5 N2 Z& e" E$ |# f8 ]
5 z+ V3 ^9 Z) a9 x3 z1 SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him." i% Y# }4 c' _! i7 z
, [5 {; {* Q( g$ m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。 . W7 f6 v4 q4 ~" O& G( v4 g% \# T 2 t+ S9 ^1 _7 Z; [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. "9 }, S3 U2 a& R4 g- S1 W" O
$ Q j- @9 c5 o+ F3 Q$ M( |& {+ M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。7 ^+ l U C* W+ z) k2 ^9 x. K
( Z$ T! B4 C1 N$ f7 S8 v4 hTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ f/ B5 B" l* f1 D9 L' N' f
7 b' ~; q- S" B' y5 }) f“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * `1 Z" Q( q7 w* _' V& G" K$ P * }( f: D8 a- u6 f. 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."* [! O- \+ B) z! l2 _, Z, e
% q0 E2 Z& o- L+ w; E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”。 6 s5 v7 \6 O/ \- Y. L 5 K) H K) Q6 E5 y[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html