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： ; w2 ?4 z: e0 Q: n5 v# L4 g( q( t: G% `3 v0 _ H! C
生命就是小甜饼： . S. i) ?5 E9 v( y( [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. ; h* b! `: V; S" N1 m; D: W% j+ D1 k. Z% v' q7 w8 g( 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”。 0 K, f3 R" I9 @' |, H ' x' L, b" b) D' X! I, \6 N+ d( WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' O( v0 n) }! P0 h+ k# O
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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。9 {: R, [, K% k- R2 l; n
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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.) \1 |% ]2 g- X$ r2 _, u2 y0 g; a
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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。7 n$ k8 B8 j$ N
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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. ! V0 \, i7 _) j2 A3 K* b . ], m: m3 ^ I; Q" t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。 - {+ x- a4 }- [. S' O3 V4 h/ j2 [4 e6 G$ M
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.$ @7 Z+ Z5 x) Z9 \3 l* }4 C' u
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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。) _9 w. _$ l& E. q* ?) I; M
9 x) G2 u: @, {* c! 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. 6 ?4 n) W, m, B( K' t : A) ~8 W, P& R% J8 X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。 ( ~) |( _$ Z: f( F; _) y* \: f8 H& W8 c. k+ Y% T' `
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. ( u9 m/ N7 Z2 X; T0 }$ _- L) x% |( d7 R7 J
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。' X% e; t- c' M
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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. & o0 t! m. L7 i$ ]- l- n. o
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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。 v2 v. e, E8 y( Y7 B! q
' K3 K3 ^" s2 CYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.0 b- z: |4 F; L) P, R1 M0 {
8 \. n0 i8 S4 P d. r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ m: _# i- m4 z8 o0 t+ M
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. Y; r/ A7 p$ ]8 ^- S/ Z" _ 2 I/ h* M& [8 ~5 X5 E$ [& X% d$ i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。6 Y- s7 Q* M5 e9 s1 A3 f
$ Z5 C1 S6 \$ O8 g2 IFor 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. " h- _/ e) ]6 {* S% V c0 f" @ ! Y) S4 ]. }) x4 W# Y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。3 E7 {3 ~6 _7 R+ j
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . v* S: y9 v/ x; Q ' J3 G$ s* P# x! v# Q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 # m* P! O) Q$ S3 o" O9 k, Y: T " n, C' a) ?) p) T# b2 DLife. 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."' K: @& J, G1 {& @
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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”。 4 ^+ E1 K: m$ e# e 1 j4 T- T8 K: ~$ k# W. @3 _" R[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html