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： $ {7 r8 {7 E: H: M - Q) O0 |, t8 ]) D6 J) a* W# N生命就是小甜饼：* y' o) Z% Y1 |3 h- p; X* ?
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. - ^8 m8 }+ z- F# H' ?6 n5 ?8 H- }! E: [
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”。/ d I5 d; E( B7 j+ N, ^
- F0 O* L, d" [2 v% ^6 O; nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + a5 s7 O% d: z- l X ( P& N' o% m+ a# }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。 8 V+ k* F; s8 T: w w1 \7 L7 a! y( K7 ]( ~- l( o! U+ Z
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.+ v3 `6 x" ]2 {9 Q8 Z- W6 T! c
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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。: w- R9 V3 U) L7 ~
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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. + L; @4 v" w& C5 {- m$ d6 c " u+ ^7 B, T; I) G6 M$ ~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。& Y0 h3 C4 D7 M
9 D; L0 O2 X) e# d7 [5 aWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 W4 d) s1 L& X* W) S
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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。! Y( b( {9 L1 _6 D
, }0 [' S! b G) RBut 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./ A( H4 ]6 ?( {0 _# _8 L
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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。3 Y* p% d4 U' K: 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. $ P! D$ }7 ]* b4 s! F 9 H) X+ T r: `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。$ F. W4 w$ I0 \7 O! U
& @$ j- {8 |( _4 H9 rYou 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- N8 r0 B5 y. e* b* g0 `% t# t4 ?& L. s0 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。0 v, s' O- F4 C7 \0 e* ^
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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.. C7 H+ C+ Z; w, h8 z% U. B
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。6 ~1 c4 x3 Q1 ~
" m4 i; C; i5 Q* p9 Y1 O" NHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.* q8 b9 p3 c3 d6 r2 H
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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。, n+ v! m$ P' l) G( A
: G! n& ]7 j5 u# KFor 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 n. c- l2 T; a
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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。 & j/ h( u. c8 m ( E: _" S4 L/ TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.+ T6 T: ^9 w, n! k) T
2 B' x0 D3 r8 r: P% h: ILife. 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." - R9 y" n) V& i* i. E- {! G$ I4 P# b
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”。 5 g& |! b" \7 v$ n% {! b ' o: p! r8 A( Q4 p0 W, \: a[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html