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： / V" G5 C) D5 Q+ F9 h- ~6 J9 V 4 \7 ~# Q6 F- D: C生命就是小甜饼： 0 K, g, q D: IOne 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 ]/ g( f) @$ a' ^
7 f, e* B6 c- G/ LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: m8 k/ K& |* K+ Q& {+ @
! P* @& n# V& l+ w% I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。0 P# p3 X0 ^7 {( |0 U& b7 T
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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.# m2 J) i! J) t
3 [" t1 l* Y3 Y3 h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。0 l, ?4 W% Y4 j) n- v
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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. {7 @+ Z: c& R
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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。6 Y t' V; V8 o, m$ E( A
, M* Z; m0 B3 p" T* xWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 3 C9 |- i) K K; [, r" v/ e" o) }6 g6 B+ x, E( g
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。 5 Q: z! b# G. Q. _5 ^# q9 E: ~/ c1 [$ ^8 g0 r
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./ V' U e' R+ U' b9 u2 I
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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。: I, U. R7 W, N, {6 e0 z
! @3 r$ F# B5 S: A1 \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.# A9 Y- P5 u/ K) T& d$ S) }
s+ X' f& t4 _8 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。 : C- n1 f5 |1 p6 K# c0 } `5 j/ ]& t2 F2 H9 l3 _7 o7 LYou 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. 2 P2 X* K. X9 S$ k - O2 F9 H- L: A; D/ @: p" r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。 ( U5 T9 ^* E y/ l3 m% B5 Z/ y ~/ I0 _/ t/ N2 G' l
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.' n& t0 P9 Q1 R) r
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 O! h6 U2 g; T; X2 n 1 k! o7 p; F5 T2 y# @Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # p3 }! N, v( I3 v: P1 v" E7 A 3 D2 u% W# @* D5 T 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。 7 H! c- W6 l# a( D- x- u8 g 9 p3 i1 B. ~9 r8 BFor 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. " 5 H# g. K5 g; _% ]3 D% t5 W6 |- W2 g4 v
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 ]0 x0 R4 T- _ 4 ?$ c. {& b4 P( T( }! LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., L! r- m1 O" G0 a
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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。5 Z6 J% }! q5 f* K3 c7 g- W# S/ D
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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.", ^5 L2 @: A1 a8 @/ e! t: _1 U( |" u
/ U$ ^% m; [* G1 @4 n8 u8 k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”。 8 P! z, l2 e6 h$ q, V - t6 c, m" {# Y; t6 B6 |% M/ w3 \[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html