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： & c4 X9 ?- W6 Y! Q& V8 E* ?6 c6 g7 y# L( q2 D S! B7 }* s) o2 c- u
生命就是小甜饼： 5 C& ]/ c5 O5 \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.# I7 @! w0 {5 _1 G$ G/ S
1 h( B( u$ ]2 k9 D5 s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”。& {7 U5 B, I5 \7 I4 s3 d: @6 h* u
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , G4 Y2 i$ B7 h$ G0 @. z `$ _ ' ^# ?9 ^! b' S1 O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。 3 T5 O/ m V7 a( n # A" e4 \4 ]3 x( ~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. 7 F0 w# Z5 B0 r r ' Y- ~! V A! X/ k; Y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。 & Y1 T6 _" M; |; y) T/ s1 P+ ^0 ?2 ~5 l" ]* H- C' J& y
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.0 t1 J" {3 w/ t
, i! @3 Q C1 GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 k( Q* |$ w/ V, A9 y, |' D2 v0 S" O% |; T; r
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。! }* g/ a/ x9 v
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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. 2 M5 D! U9 q J+ Q ! j2 _8 m' E/ N" F8 S! Y( L$ U( R/ d) c& z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。( F; d0 t# t- I" Q" e
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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.7 S' `9 A0 r0 m; V; V* A
- A; ^: `4 |* ]) g* @ d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。9 P& p: b5 d8 ]" ~2 g5 m, ?' p0 f
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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. " Z/ ~9 m. g* }+ N4 [ 0 x+ K3 s. Z! i, Z1 {. 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。0 ~5 l! D) E! {2 v
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 f2 n+ r) G% V [9 Z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 Q0 Q4 i6 n% |, P# z& V0 q* D& x " r& N3 w7 N5 @* w" JHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 `6 f$ r+ }% ]& `; F ' ]% v$ f+ a+ p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。% F7 Q) g: e d4 \! B
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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. "- F* M* H5 q, ?" m# j
* |: a4 `$ w' Y& L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。. ` e) N: ^9 t1 c7 `: |9 s
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! s3 I$ l/ c# y
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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。0 x8 @5 f, O" L G! X% x, p
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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." - A' w; P+ K0 q' B; N k3 w% |* v5 u8 k1 K1 b$ l
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”。 $ m/ M* e; a+ v4 t& s; `7 L 3 { b5 z' q* P0 L[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html