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： 5 |0 W$ W9 T/ A e7 a. {: \ 7 O7 H$ o: B1 L$ b f1 s生命就是小甜饼：' |# y( P+ x5 E5 ?, o4 I
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.3 u [, g* ]5 Y( `# a2 s7 p
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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”。 ) C. t7 b, h1 p6 y/ ^/ X' e 4 w4 l4 X2 y8 E) x' O- uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 O0 n ~1 I. H. `+ H p9 z5 t3 ?
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。5 g0 O+ j5 P3 T' d; O7 l, M5 i/ A5 ?
! R4 i3 z$ l% t8 a/ bSome 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.6 O9 @; f1 t' S$ \# A; S) j3 m4 x
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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。+ I$ A: i% g/ H( ~8 C* I# e
$ } z1 y/ E4 H' D- ~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.. Q. ]9 U c/ l' G" _: V1 D
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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。1 r# Y6 d! Y5 H1 f
0 [& `8 K4 O) U$ ?When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy./ @7 @4 T0 k4 Q. W9 T1 o/ z
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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。 , m0 X/ h# B6 N) c) v$ J8 J 1 e8 X& i6 ~8 `% \- z* }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.7 p2 q5 b3 m( {! a1 o
J, d, X/ v, y* `! ~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。 8 U& N' {1 ]1 C3 V# p3 y0 Q. T- v; {+ ~" v' c1 f% M
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.% v* h# c3 f/ r/ p& ~; p
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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。 " m- E8 E& ?- a' c) C; y% F- C8 X/ W& q7 v7 X d6 s' o* P0 l6 f6 F
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. 5 I1 D! M [; h6 w9 O+ E) Z+ g2 `$ e9 s& N! Q# E5 U
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。 % k- Q' }, B. p, ~1 l* L$ X G6 E, v& D$ z7 s: [) q1 R2 ~. x0 I% z
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 h, ?. }, I0 U* D) g
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 H5 t; K8 q. S1 m6 T+ {" ^8 r, l" Q) O9 u
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ' y4 e7 F' M- T! E8 J : x' c0 b5 l+ ]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。 7 G0 `# N$ {$ g4 L8 h 9 U% ^) n6 x9 G, R' h* uFor 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. "# j( X- {9 d- F6 d. ^1 U
" o+ \4 ]9 L& N! {0 f: ] ~2 @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。4 A$ E6 u F. z5 R7 m. [
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ o- ~2 P4 h" C w# m7 e/ A' K; Q( s9 y( W; t( b! K
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 Z3 Q! M% t t 6 }6 R: B: Z8 |; b" V, PLife. 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."! R2 d) }2 c. D' b2 A/ E' J/ v9 u
% T. n! c) b) h/ V! N0 x! ~' Q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”。 : F) x- K J* o2 h6 A- l& N9 F # d$ L8 K S0 Q3 Q& I[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html