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：# L D$ Y" Y4 H/ C7 M1 x
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生命就是小甜饼：2 d: R& \# b! v
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. % W0 a) Y. d c6 p& {, I; N: _8 w2 E5 D% A/ A
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”。 , u: s/ I: G/ s) i( F" [# s+ D' S4 f `% t
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % |) f/ ^( B% h; m# u8 i1 P" s; s
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。 , V$ Q x" X# A6 D5 ]. k E- Q# F. N: R8 C; ^! g6 ]9 hSome 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 l) U) I& n9 z: r# j" {# D& i
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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。! w0 U8 b/ g1 A6 w( `8 _4 J
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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.2 N5 b: d8 D1 ]
1 g5 y4 U( P, {# @* U% b7 c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。 $ O& G% P( k- b* t; I, o& f' y! s( b6 N
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% o9 K3 D/ a9 R) c+ B" f& E
) U: x+ ~2 n1 J; b) J- a3 o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。2 v, f8 @& i9 N6 L4 |
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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. % E5 B* E1 r5 ]$ x, x8 |( l+ p. c! y9 ]! P- `3 z, Y$ l
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。: ^" V& V( C2 W. J: a {& ]. T
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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. 9 L+ K6 W( E# y9 r% W1 H3 [0 S2 I7 }; d0 p- R! Z/ T
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。$ h- h4 x( G/ i6 O( j$ A
# k/ _* L) l! e; wYou 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. 9 v, @; Z# _8 h' ~6 Y
" A8 R' ^# i% a! p4 |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。4 r2 w8 b7 F1 f: u# R
7 ?7 @3 O/ b3 U5 @You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.) [/ |& Q& w }8 G/ i
3 A- K6 b3 J. O0 M你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 j) e" j4 X& p M
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 W6 W& p' a9 w t( M4 C
! J4 L& j3 F" F% ]" B8 j H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。+ T. t1 s" b( a, Z7 l
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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. " u4 a7 K2 H5 @7 I8 Q0 }: W+ ^ B8 Q/ {% M) c. m: `5 e
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。8 ~( u Q6 x" a3 n/ b* T
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% U5 _' {* Y* f" X' o7 h
1 u& [9 O0 V0 W Y6 R! a“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 2 M; w$ X! J; Q0 ~ $ b1 B& A2 C& r2 C* \2 Q: FLife. 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." . C5 E& r3 c6 L9 K! C ( J8 r# v2 r9 C% v( q6 X0 O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”。 1 @. P0 `. T1 Z 3 Y' j0 |( J4 z) i- E* ][attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html