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： % c, }! U3 D+ N& q' l & g. ]( a, G' X生命就是小甜饼：; U* Q% d- V% ?6 [; F6 `
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. * m0 p4 v" {1 A * v' B( h$ W4 o& I9 [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”。( W7 g" r B: p! d
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . Z8 v+ P) L( H1 P- f$ V0 ^( C1 _/ ~% g2 T* _6 I9 B
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 m1 K! `! r# S% _- V. I8 H) F
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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.6 F; b' f% z5 l+ s5 m* K" A* l
% @/ `* n7 s9 L! u' g( Z6 i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 n3 c; | w# A8 i) ~8 Z, v
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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.4 Y4 W6 r6 Z: M- N7 Y
6 \* u9 ]! z) ~1 s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。 6 j3 a ], B" E* F) N9 i# [9 ]+ ]# w0 ?: e6 d1 i+ Z$ z6 w/ o
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 7 @* J9 B/ O" W e& f7 e/ T2 m9 @6 L" P. z0 G; P4 w U! G
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。' T) h* |& j, G# d( _4 N' A
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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.% c: l# ^% c8 y
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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 o5 J w! N- `: N4 ~( A
6 a* `0 B7 [1 }+ t6 l3 w" zThe 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. ; q, }7 v4 X: f; q$ w; F" s& V+ A7 u# ~7 n2 p
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。3 J" |! P$ v3 q
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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. : B9 N; i" U' Q* S7 N# M # x8 `1 V3 l$ t9 I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。 ( R* v' F2 I) A. [3 \ Y4 l, O , H6 [4 g# l% Q2 ]# F$ Y% CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 Y( n( G4 K: w* A: F
" e2 F- v7 A) V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) v3 x7 ^2 K: i3 u6 R; r0 \* j2 `: X3 F; ?
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " _6 G" A2 B8 ?! \+ S% x 8 u! T% e2 s; {) Y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。: V$ J" g) Y! f% K# G1 j
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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. "6 l5 c# U) H* J
( w" W9 q4 s! r$ @; ~ b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。, Q" q. A+ q6 i
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.. N) |+ k- B, {/ J' C' \+ V
+ k2 X4 H8 v; 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。3 n- x# R: P5 ]0 x
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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." 9 [- j( d1 ]. X6 w7 i! J. N! ~8 r! G
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”。 , l! l; e5 d; l5 ^' P m . k' \0 \) |5 ~0 g. V7 P[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html