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： 6 }$ J1 Y1 }3 Q# ?. _6 c6 Q . R7 G$ [; a A1 r+ y生命就是小甜饼： ' G) J& F0 U/ ROne 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 Y( j+ x3 M
1 c1 c" s- @( V* ~: q1 d/ m/ J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”。 8 y d) s7 K: l' M4 H% @ K+ R0 s4 q, s ^9 e$ p4 j# g: b9 T8 \
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 3 q( @$ u% H7 Q6 O! D+ O9 ~; a0 n: Y; x
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。 : h, Q% s6 ?1 `7 U, Q & s/ O' _+ A% _1 k# _% W8 xSome 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.4 y6 E7 i0 v ~
3 |* G; O/ W3 K8 b1 v, D% G+ F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。 - J( k+ }6 f- ?" O# N! n ( j. s4 g3 v, [9 ?/ H$ GA 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. ) `9 m3 x3 [: b( Y! U, ^) n2 {( R( I/ @0 E
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。! \" E9 t) I: _9 Q6 U1 [0 ~8 Q
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* G/ U9 ^3 F9 O1 j* [ T6 h
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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。 ' S' H& I3 o0 J3 F; o0 K" a6 G4 ^& K5 b0 D u; N( R" R4 R& D
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.; [* a8 {! ?5 R% N6 I; K( X7 \
" a; }% c9 Z' e9 u0 d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。+ h" s0 X/ J3 l) w+ 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.% D8 H! O$ D; I
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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。1 \( L- G9 z, ^6 y2 B9 |
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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. 7 _, u, R6 N% ^) u" k/ c' r
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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。/ f: S0 R' C7 U$ v& o
F; S; O2 S1 S2 fYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; l8 c0 t. ]8 V* h6 F4 e) {4 E1 x$ U
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 r" y' z% n6 X+ |) m" h+ q0 R5 ?6 O! ], Z6 S$ }0 I
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. S4 v0 { J5 a4 b6 g0 [ B. t 8 N- Y+ Q8 j' e& ?; \, t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* z, ^; B8 n& h8 H9 I" B/ l: ~" o7 s
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. "( Q1 G8 L# q+ E9 L' L
2 @# J( q/ z ^, l8 p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。9 e- ^3 X k* Z
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 W( v# `6 @" B& m. j" {( T; N2 b2 t% 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。7 O) s& T3 p8 K7 y( h) K
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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."2 B3 p, { {& C& ]
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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”。 : i7 _5 [! @, `2 E/ b6 K8 q % G# ~5 A/ n w: F[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html