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： " J! O7 L( H1 P: j% |! d2 |# ]2 _4 P4 [. k: L5 |5 `: h4 U4 D
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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.6 `, ^* x( I3 m2 w2 `, S0 p/ E
: s4 M# z8 M. Z( R8 C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 k* r# F( Q: Q6 m* c b* A2 Z" n
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 i- _+ l- G5 t7 i @& |; y
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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。5 Y# }# X, b* ?
5 K3 R+ Q- o- q: y }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.! Q4 S7 _3 c# _' W# ]/ N2 Q
8 \5 u5 |+ \9 \9 T- n0 _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.$ H1 V8 D5 Q! A; y5 A( L* k/ P
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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。 2 t( N' k# A2 q$ U9 x, A/ g6 |8 E6 a: @# Z
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / D7 e5 l9 f' b( h9 a1 l- Z V! x- e5 o4 }$ g7 m2 D% _. p
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。 * a1 K/ s+ N/ O. E( o' Q" y' v6 a4 ]" l& ?8 Z* [& ?0 Z/ [# j
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.+ ~3 W3 ?% X+ a5 W" l9 v) ]) J5 m
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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。' T* {' k/ w. o3 C5 b
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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. " _; O3 M# T1 a% `9 k0 r6 {, S! |
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。 % M$ M/ T! i2 L1 _- m: n" d+ c
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. + h7 P! n+ g4 w& ^* g
, y8 S: q6 D" c$ \0 h7 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。 5 P' P1 q9 E; u3 n 6 t5 Z3 m4 I, }You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 0 m/ s1 y# y3 c' M0 e " V- O1 }4 X: r, `2 I3 @+ L你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 b" F* R2 b9 u4 e% Q7 D! _ # m/ ^. u& `- T6 C7 V7 g6 p2 H3 ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 T7 ]8 f2 u2 k9 V/ T+ s
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s7 m' i5 d( k( I' GFor 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. "( n8 T* ~+ Y2 j+ Q6 z6 m6 V- n
6 x7 s8 R; G, a6 B* z |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。 6 V0 l& L# F& _- {# Q, o 5 J/ w* \. a& kTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; v5 n& D& F0 j3 X8 Z
# G* ]9 C# ]* f8 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 I; j" d5 f: Z. u9 w
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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."$ T. f& A0 a$ g, n3 e; V
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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”。 0 Z4 Y- w* I+ ~/ t6 p , v. H$ D/ `, B: f[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html