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：+ N; w s7 w% v& p! x* e! S
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生命就是小甜饼： 7 p1 H8 Q( b: D m, Z8 U' aOne 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. + U6 f2 n5 V+ J8 ` - m6 Q* o( ]+ _/ G' S0 |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”。 9 h. P) v5 K, |3 A ! V2 ?5 Q1 n5 o$ |If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , P; c! C* D8 U& C2 A4 M/ H2 |8 B) X; h
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 U0 M$ Z( b; y/ \
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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., @7 w4 _% I; h. ~' s
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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。 / m. Q1 P" ^/ `3 T- f% x0 u, E, T2 [$ s( {. N% ]& h! Q5 I* l" y
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. : M4 r; W8 |& @) j: _) q( L7 u. y7 a; }/ H8 J C& K
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 e8 z2 w' g9 s 2 n" j9 b R, ]4 Z0 A8 i0 FWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 7 L Y4 p, S! i+ u) |2 X, [ , N7 `) r2 C) R9 `( ?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。 3 q& q7 g. Q+ q" R, U0 R7 f 3 ^) W7 X5 q- @) X5 o2 QBut 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. ( _4 }( P5 r0 V/ G2 p! m+ z! h/ Y+ T- ^
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。- h& c: X! q: v
- U! i" x+ X8 j- H) V, w YThe 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.* O7 W/ }6 z2 h2 W* ]/ E
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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。 1 w& B% Q9 L& s( \9 o) Y) _* x p 7 j7 T8 O/ f1 z& Y! k" e! HYou 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. - h4 E8 l0 _8 M1 e! j
9 e# a; }2 F/ q/ v* n. i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。 % @0 b9 b3 x2 E" E: Y " p( `' @3 I1 ]7 ]5 k: sYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. * d \% {6 Q8 }5 m- E, H c8 i( M B" ?, r8 I
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; h5 i' N0 Y7 j; `! S$ N+ Z) i G7 d1 z- s, `1 s' a
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& C! q% I; w d5 ?
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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 k: J& H# p3 {: I6 V' H+ \, `/ D" t; H3 K$ D
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. "1 |+ G0 B# Q5 V
, m) ?2 Q8 {5 {8 q2 a& ^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。 ( |: G' J8 h b+ L, a( E9 B! L2 t; Q0 f
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ b7 {5 j5 @; S+ T# n: G7 z6 j/ B
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。* E, @" J k8 f
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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."/ I0 I5 L e) I
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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”。 / J; [* v( S$ ~ u" b" k3 T : [, J: ?, f: `8 C( w+ z2 q @[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html