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：9 p4 {; Q7 o! y" ?* U5 S8 p7 C
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生命就是小甜饼：2 Z. m% [7 A( V9 B
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 D5 [0 u2 c+ T. ^$ s$ N2 V
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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”。/ ]5 a/ A( z! d7 Z
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 N1 {5 x* _$ s' |
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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。 1 X w3 B( S5 I, D v0 h 8 ?. I: A `- k5 Y' f% n1 FSome 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.* A/ x# z' f& n; ]
0 f z2 [- W' G7 s& e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。) X* L- G3 [+ g; i. i( L ~
: r3 z3 @5 f# f' P/ Z1 Q* p% y2 \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. 7 t8 F1 S& z" }9 N/ y7 D0 |4 K, u( b& I* L- S: i4 ?: \6 C) N, _9 P+ v$ {
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。" k5 j4 ~) r2 Y, [4 N" n/ L6 g' z4 U
/ `- C8 n, u7 ?8 b# a) AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # |! G. R- B# V7 o2 i 6 A. A/ u0 b# S N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。 6 X& B: |- W) w0 s* x) E; ?1 Z. c4 _. l* R( `* L
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. # c0 Y+ B( O. I6 N% z 9 g3 K; f+ D h$ ]8 b. q) H2 b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。2 X7 W9 s1 b2 s/ Y
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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.+ `( u, Z1 m1 l
0 q' C9 ]) j- D n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。 , S. n9 L7 b0 D$ _# Q# v% F3 X s! A1 M5 ~1 N- d |4 Z' zYou 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. 6 S6 U0 v1 A" i2 N5 b2 c/ C
4 Y' P5 g' [) ?; z7 o* M7 v$ r% t5 w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。 : N& C5 P+ P0 C1 F/ b5 P8 q7 j4 } H( V2 o# |8 u/ i
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & J: {+ \8 H; x _; p; b) H+ [ C7 h5 s" z0 ~; {2 F+ ?5 E
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ x8 k( E9 `2 P( ]; h. M
! G! \) z" W+ g: ~Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 3 i9 t7 n5 n; c ]& R6 F* O" t: a / R* e* d/ \2 G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。# B9 W2 E/ d! J
( Z4 p. a5 \1 M" }( Y8 t/ U: qFor 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. "8 o& c) N* V) |% w: u8 \. m% h
+ U: v3 o3 ], ^. ]9 Y; m: I9 K, C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。" k, _, T. i3 ? h. \
: s5 k( H9 \ |: r& s- y* UTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 g- v; ?% C( e {' J% S D& j; P! ^; W" @
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" i+ Y* ?( x9 r1 n* \" R
9 ]! {' I! d" }( |) U4 q7 U- jLife. 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." e+ E; u+ r5 Y4 e. C " k2 |% S+ j! [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 t o* Z2 H/ c" \7 k) M5 _ 1 d" V* P# S; r5 s5 C[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html