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! z+ k' @0 _5 I
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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.4 C' O2 T& ?2 _7 j1 \
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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”。" x3 q6 v' |- x$ y1 }" e4 x
* {2 n% |! {# B5 Z/ fIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! R5 X: z9 G( C( \! ?
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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。; u; B2 N J" _) b
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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. n" X' o N7 n" J% [7 Q- I
5 }& C) }, e* B- t1 P" Z8 i2 E( n+ p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。 % u2 l* i! i) c, n' G$ S# m2 L" q' F5 R. V$ ~6 I" z1 b( p! H0 S
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. . @; U W7 @0 S 8 Q3 \+ }9 T' U. ^3 E3 x" w0 H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。, j" e( b8 n7 V
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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! D- F8 r# \ # a$ s, S9 p" g4 D5 _+ g% L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。 : ~+ r4 F3 t9 L1 U( C1 z* H2 V5 o8 ]( l, d7 ~8 m3 p! P
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.) Y5 v6 P! F" ]5 G
. ]. m; e% B. c+ |2 x2 }( ~7 \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。 h2 O/ Y B1 H$ e4 } [ x% t, d2 y8 r; i2 U5 r
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. : ]$ T1 ^3 i8 y/ J' } : l U" Q; ]- c% E1 x, }+ ~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。: e5 }' j3 ?6 s% o( L
7 I1 F% y/ R0 T' uYou 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 j m0 t5 i# e: b' Z8 k
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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。 8 k* u5 D1 q7 [" z, p5 b( a8 n* }- k5 t' [& t r0 s& I
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., z) m, y0 D0 {2 y
$ h7 P+ Z( Q& ~! w( @- F, v- ~你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。5 x9 K: Q: ~' K/ s7 Q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & m$ B/ \/ z- U: j! T* H3 |. R. I# X
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。1 B# p; d/ t' Y
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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. " 2 |4 j9 d5 T. j, S/ p3 }* e6 I ; r1 p$ {3 s5 M6 X0 E6 o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 f: X3 R6 o6 f7 o* G* m1 k# X" l- v0 O
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 5 |; J! K) V( h ' o: L, \2 l1 h“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ( K$ Q; [' l4 _! v: Y& D. ?0 ` 8 _( F, m% V* T; h/ q$ }3 ^$ g6 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."# o6 f6 b. G8 S6 y/ }
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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”。 : g9 S8 f; m/ d5 R: _ , m" Z# O2 ^/ Z- e2 L' N8 s) _: v; ~2 L[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html