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：( `2 i& q+ G! t
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生命就是小甜饼： 6 y- A" {# c) [9 n5 ]4 qOne 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. ( g0 p9 i; c. N/ @ ) l m, h% g; J, Y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”。 7 p4 [) ?/ Z+ R% j( ^9 I4 ? , Y4 a: r) W3 oIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. }7 M4 r8 n8 i/ U+ q" a
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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。) y v _# e; J3 r
! t1 V& F# o- ]9 S/ ]& z* |" {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. * S4 w5 q! `' k3 w/ a+ C 3 Q. a4 C0 f g4 _6 I- v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。 + h# U& D* N! T* `8 X [! V! [: O 2 i9 T: u% w* K2 A8 ^4 C! nA 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. * ^% D- F: h( a9 a/ U. s 9 D+ ?: L. k* Y& M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。 & E, `) L7 t1 N, Q/ ~" J/ Y, l& N6 T* X4 d
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 0 _* c9 [$ B* |, p" y H' c, v) l. ~2 a6 f8 s6 e- g7 z
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。 ) \' e2 p& o0 D0 e7 \# f 6 T: C2 j0 h( u) }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.: o' B% q6 W- S8 F2 o! N" j1 R2 h
$ _3 B# p- Y0 G0 @( E1 F5 x1 a c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。 3 o/ ?) |3 V. d/ ^ % [* y; K8 _: ~' TThe 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.) C" r! |+ e5 r8 T4 R( B, z
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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。+ c1 Z: R/ S# p+ q5 e: g
: a, Q6 F; [. \9 EYou 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. : t$ |' I: ]2 p) N3 {# X9 e( T: x- F3 U
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。 8 _- z- S R' N5 M: ]1 g- U8 g( n9 e; s8 x+ d" k
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , q' ^( M! c9 N# @) v$ R0 o+ G) V' E) U3 s
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 $ n7 c$ e" S# ~, d1 H: a8 {6 ~( v8 _5 [5 f
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.; X7 B! H( {$ R1 F/ O
. ~( r" E' U* a0 d% \' v. ?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。: \$ i7 q) F/ G' i. c
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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. "* D' c3 e. K6 b* n' Y
0 I( f* Q3 h' D- v' l1 `* v V7 }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。 : Y. N0 H1 W: @1 L; j# i* H6 C3 q" B- N( P1 W$ U' V
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." n7 r1 M- x- p- H5 y
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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。6 r& }9 s1 e5 ^; L1 ^7 w
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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."+ D. I& `/ b3 b0 F7 x7 q
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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”。 / i) D/ g; D3 l9 R1 @ 5 E" P' g" z' p: e$ N[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html