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： " F( `/ x' y, n" \1 @$ I! z' {5 I7 f: J% t# V8 i" X
生命就是小甜饼：9 r4 f ]: t; P" x7 R
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. - V- g3 X6 L9 v6 @- r( n# C, g! c9 o0 o9 ^' p
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”。8 B3 t) g& G; k. `. t3 O- F! I
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ J; H$ g O/ j+ r3 u" k. \ 6 i+ {' P( G* q- N5 y3 y: B2 s9 ?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。& [1 s% u& C5 ^: A2 v# y$ X
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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./ R0 e3 L$ H$ D
. c4 Z7 ], [' _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。 3 X' U9 |! D2 \! x+ g. G! S; S9 d: ?* I
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. " P) _- B9 J* O: P' n/ k/ N7 y8 _% P4 w* Z' C# B
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 n* q$ Q7 k* f6 [, d
4 i9 e- j' U+ j) ]7 tWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* R! O6 H$ t% o3 D# m# r, {
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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 [. @0 R1 b' n# V; k. c1 s 2 f4 \ u3 M9 {7 ~8 RBut 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. 9 L4 j2 D# U+ i7 v' d* L% O) E; F; ^! [# g9 L6 g5 F0 U
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 _' f5 ], E/ [$ w3 v 5 U# }% U P* O8 h4 Q, D' lThe 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.) B+ Y& W7 f! z
# W3 H$ k6 [$ h( S) v7 g. V' b( A& P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。 7 h$ Q$ v5 D; A2 T4 \; ?, o: ?, w1 K7 |8 M: i
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. ! k8 Z( V: K& l! C# o( b
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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。 s# `, F% F& D& @0 O! w9 `
2 f) k/ V2 ]* z; `! IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 \! m- c# U) |' t: T7 F
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 `1 j! {: g) \; t! w8 J3 I( q$ d6 s! c: ? ~8 r* \
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. / v6 s' U9 H' T9 w2 s0 F6 {$ L 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。 ! z5 L9 ~( ^" d+ Y3 l) h 9 R2 G) ^. W7 c4 o7 l; s, C! 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. " ! \' [5 G; O2 D7 y" r A % Y2 x M$ J. |( n% W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 U( t( m+ ~2 _. \6 L5 J9 k
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.% x- @( S; j- `. }& Y% X
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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。 1 |2 [: U) |) l8 @' L% w! J z# |) B9 w
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." % F4 A6 u& ~# l/ o- x+ v G4 p & K! w/ I& j! D8 ?3 g$ D @# V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”。 1 [1 g7 W( J/ z; U1 D4 G6 _ 5 c3 L: o6 o* _9 J6 t[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html