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： * a* R2 g. E& J" X; o! D- F3 ^ , p- N5 a2 E5 Y; n+ w) U生命就是小甜饼： . M& I$ w0 Y# ~. d1 d$ j: D; f# }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. - i) m4 e3 e; H9 Y. C: U , m- }( `9 X3 H/ \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”。 , s. ^" ?7 K7 `- H. P2 p+ U5 B$ ^& r& v; ]# _
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# r0 c. W9 x/ \, X1 z8 i& |
5 W2 R- c8 f; V7 g, [! {3 n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。, Y7 _! G6 ~& R3 q$ j
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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.) Z X1 w" U- K; v: t
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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。( y4 C, ]2 _) `5 G
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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.9 l# {) |" O/ Z9 @
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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 N2 Q% f/ g# S: F
0 }6 I7 Z, R6 N. ~3 \When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.6 r5 H. C: |" _. r
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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。/ K9 j% y: e+ X
4 M8 S. \! H2 x6 E! a, b$ w# eBut 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.- H; c1 d. K& p
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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。) a% D5 R8 s G* W! [' e2 H
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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. 9 k# T4 L! C1 [3 v0 S* h" O/ Y1 @) N! m8 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。& m0 F& ~6 F5 X9 [+ x% l; e
' y. {) Q$ z, e$ k: F+ G% IYou 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. ! R. |8 j, f$ x9 r! ? : L' J& X; s8 @3 t- ^$ X6 b9 c* V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。 & Q# [/ B8 ?$ A3 b4 Q; Y* v. m, f5 k, b( ~- {4 F# q
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 [1 F1 O1 m2 E$ {& S
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: t6 w5 N. }/ H0 h3 s2 Z
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ; ?) @+ M5 ^ U2 u' k' L: Z# ]
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。 5 b+ H2 f( L. J) O1 e7 Y1 ^0 ]+ X! e3 b/ z% G- s+ H+ k
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. " . u" v! e" ~( t; k& X# z' ^ 5 {4 A2 j+ @' c& l/ j( o7 `2 P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。# E6 f) [: {6 o& r' ]: r' @
- ` Z: Y; e/ d5 \Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 6 D) l8 G7 u- B / J3 b/ {( I9 u* K1 T1 `6 n5 m* M“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " y0 B' S+ F/ O' B5 s3 l5 H7 v9 c. y# e9 Z; U
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."7 V( g, J' h4 O9 Y* _8 r
" X) f) f& P7 X1 k M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”。 / c7 M" C5 S3 D5 U [ ; c t* s5 P. ^- Q3 R; [[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html