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：) z! K! g5 K) M. p' J
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生命就是小甜饼：( V1 Y. Y/ o0 V6 |
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. + P* a6 G, ^% d6 Y. | |- K' _' k# W) n
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”。/ w+ p8 W- r( r! A2 H
6 K* F" @; A6 p2 G/ M. A4 H ]* h7 dIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , M5 x6 d: q- `' R' D# V, O" d 1 w/ y$ z8 Y, ^6 D" j7 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。 ' g. ?! l' |) R8 `/ g- B/ q: W' \- n) `' J! P
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. 8 U2 _+ @* i! N/ v* L . m& D+ R: f3 @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。 / g# n- Q' H' _' S 9 E+ B. Z' I, E; W+ 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 c: C; o/ Y; }. ~6 l
9 C$ v% O- Y& D, k9 u" U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。 9 l. X5 n( e# A& s+ [7 B+ f. _ 8 k; n4 i7 s9 xWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., ?( D: ^+ c* `2 I% w, T* c
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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。, B( F+ `; x9 Z9 P. U% \* T
; o6 V% y# _2 X( B7 iBut 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. 8 }* u1 ^, m, V% z. J0 w . m& i+ t4 q0 g# t; F% n: a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。9 K# o g- F& n+ s8 H
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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. 4 a/ U" l; _6 y0 f( `( ~3 C 0 z% J6 t8 G, S- s- k0 b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 e* X; x2 C, ]0 X9 O1 i/ D+ C
" @& r* t4 v3 ~: wYou 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. * f' \# _0 L8 ^- Y' v) A
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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。 & U3 n' Y8 C: j% h: { $ z+ l" h. K6 r$ M# PYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. . i0 `% _$ j4 n; i( d; w! M; w `" @) M8 z) Z( v6 L. P
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 W. E. S! J! A, m4 F
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. " A7 B% E) Q H0 Z! ^1 U0 C5 f* j ?
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。& i0 K7 d6 w$ P1 C2 J
9 F; X* z' t' x" n7 w! j6 [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 \) a% r$ a: x U8 [6 f: f; [9 X0 S2 p3 w# Z
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。2 m5 J4 S; @& Q2 C( ^+ b/ ^( ?
9 ~/ v+ e* g% y+ F& g! A4 ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; K0 V% h7 N5 E, 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。 5 G y2 u1 T: z: v% m& @! Q9 j- D3 w% V
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." . E. Q `$ N2 Z. r4 r" I* P* T( E5 x$ B6 |8 T, H
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”。 ; o C- J w2 _; U " V* _- e# O9 |[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html