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： 9 S% T: L6 u; U: k- `3 n9 ]! ^/ ~9 @2 N. }% P* o
生命就是小甜饼： + _8 x( s9 B6 x1 u4 G( @5 dOne 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.& f' t5 V# f/ d8 o( R
) S, i5 d4 v- y, w* ?; l1 \ V( 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”。 8 c) |; k6 A! W2 y+ E2 a) {( `0 Q! r% e9 R
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 0 d" X6 ^ R. L h B' @$ N) F# P9 s, W
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 k* b2 n4 n" @2 q4 g) `3 Z0 a2 }; V, M! J
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.0 ^2 I, G4 ?% `" U/ g9 g
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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。9 Q8 ]! T! ^( }* B* ]; q
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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.6 x; [# a, q0 s; p7 e
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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。/ e' N: z6 ^+ r5 e8 b+ f/ H
$ }5 D4 \4 R. G- c/ B4 ?. e/ bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 u0 E2 V: |7 w
0 E+ d* E* ~. ?5 J2 FBut 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 k, b9 x I9 I. m3 U& K
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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。% u2 Y% Z8 L) @% N. r1 h( f* r
* e* w* G! P0 q X; xThe 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 ]9 k8 Q5 b6 B% F' @
$ h9 Y& b3 C; d7 X/ g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。 Y9 j+ p _2 t. _: i3 E 6 A6 }$ h) i8 L! n ^2 YYou 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. $ ~% m% P8 T/ z& a* L/ ^7 L& w- v4 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。 3 b. p5 w3 s- B3 o) \1 {/ f/ Y3 F# G4 E p8 `
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.6 R- R9 a/ H- _& l! E& r$ G/ V2 R4 K2 Y
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : Z1 }# v- U+ M$ ?1 r 6 r( ?2 a* D* E* C5 e, Y. UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ U/ c" Z) E7 a, F9 u' C6 F7 G4 I( A
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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。; Z* Y/ w3 Y% J) Z$ D
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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. " ! n; U; T6 n9 j& [! `9 ?8 G8 S1 ^
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。 / w1 d+ s* s/ d+ J & }) x2 `+ F" \. t; E( oTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% B8 B' n! m" @' H O, F# h
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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。# M; }: W( T, V% j2 A$ F
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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."" K/ A$ A- ~3 S' J: Q. \9 y7 K! v/ V8 E
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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 m+ C. A% o4 q1 Z) Y4 ]/ ] 8 i5 [" g: s, w/ J" W2 O2 h V# F[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html