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： ! Y( b3 D! y) h" J% u: o9 B6 i: y% d- k7 }4 @2 |. ~; x7 H# w4 E& g- O
生命就是小甜饼： ! L/ q7 n6 M# d: p+ u1 o# Z _/ T7 eOne 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.3 ]: o- K- v/ H0 Z @0 _
' a+ B0 O0 i- i# ]- E0 ^4 @# GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: Z* q$ E: U \) W) y* ^& T& L+ b
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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。 7 |$ v# P8 m4 I- Y( S * S2 D% O- D+ H% P# }( k% JSome 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./ X1 c' K) J4 |6 y9 W! ^/ Q
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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 |) d/ S/ c. N7 ] P/ }, X J 1 Q6 Y8 \! Z0 L0 H( EA 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.' r9 ?# p2 A8 |' f, u' ^/ m
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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。 & X" U- o4 [) O + v( q; O& X/ T1 ZWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. C, |0 M( h' e9 ] t; }8 R 9 X7 r. J1 R" b# K& O4 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。 $ B U4 L" @9 X7 Q! a7 r+ e) G: Z# }9 U- f: O0 Y) }
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. 1 C, Z* ^- N& Y' k4 C; @/ Z# j$ C( }# G8 W3 I
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。. b. H* v [/ s" l0 ~
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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.5 w1 v0 d; D6 d" R! k3 o
, s j! F N1 c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。& K: b! j6 F% x
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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. - O2 H- I# ~- o1 _, K- A+ N
9 u6 r. ` k# P, a( ?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。 ! `! {, ?7 o) H1 O3 ]: I, C$ e/ w, F) [+ J
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 m2 X- G8 \' d/ v
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 O; ^2 T `) w( G # c! \! N; A$ N t8 rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' w4 O$ i% F8 L" N( v5 g3 @* ^0 q( \( m ; H, \$ Z' v; O+ k" ?3 C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。 2 n) N2 G0 g$ G9 S4 W% K: b2 ? L
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. "1 D& a, `, o( c& v2 w
7 R( D& n; B% l* p0 O, A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。* G+ {) B0 ~/ b& p$ D. j
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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。 2 D3 q5 _, A) K _* h6 W3 X 7 g0 U9 F* u/ Z# w/ c% G) bLife. 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."/ V3 `7 g% r2 S. g
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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”。 ) Y- K+ W! f- y- _& e. e$ y, g9 J/ V. K; c3 J" V; G
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