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： 2 b+ e" W" I. b. ?$ V' l1 I* e. ? 9 Q8 h6 f4 i/ B3 i- _生命就是小甜饼： $ f% L& L' o* q7 ~5 |2 }# \3 YOne 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. 2 `# V4 x7 _* `1 r k) S0 D " t* b# Y& T; d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”。2 A; [0 d+ A8 }& ]9 A
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. u8 h) {7 c; c1 n2 O/ I- f" y " _8 g1 ^+ j% D- n9 `: Z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。 2 P/ d( A* |6 Y# T3 Q 3 E; f- q& u, |: o9 p* n% 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. 0 m& O" V6 ?* m. D! o : Z9 Q Q- _% t) i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。 * l* D: }4 C: c( d0 l/ L ^& \ B) h 5 Y5 b4 r3 y0 Z$ I8 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., ]2 K( D/ h. J# I1 M- {* ~! i
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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。 : F( m# v+ O9 O- [. t8 I* C* S: i# t( X+ {, \# m! m2 E
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 w! N2 |; f; k. q* q % G+ J8 P- @ ?& @2 E+ ~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 e% Q0 S& P% h1 e) w$ N
, m4 u" h7 S- K/ y5 L$ JBut 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.' G/ U( w. s5 h
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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。# Z3 a' `5 T4 \. U# A% l
# F/ C$ w* o- ~2 OThe 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.# T% c5 _( a/ v4 X& n
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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。3 V/ Q2 }/ a/ V$ \1 e: I9 F
! |; h: k7 K1 w8 }' z+ M5 W! U. ?. SYou 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. + t- w1 p5 T- _. q
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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。) D/ B/ [/ Q& F' W. n. H" I
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* N3 W/ \* b5 Q: r) I
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。9 ~. ^+ N. T! h" T" O
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. + O% y/ f q$ z* S8 F& r0 t# C I3 \
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。 / X- k0 k, c; A / z. X, s5 j, u) z3 tFor 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. "! A! m) @0 C! E! D
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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。- r+ q1 y; V# {
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 n# ?3 H4 g6 k1 I# y
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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."1 t7 M# B4 ^; ? a
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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”。 ! ? T, `$ I, l) x. E / g6 J" V& p, b, l$ s9 y[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html