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：9 `0 u! |, N X5 F8 _
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生命就是小甜饼： # V+ w: R& P0 f5 @/ O2 E/ P( wOne 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.8 p8 y* {( t" k
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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 r+ P! X- r$ ]6 A9 P8 Q, n- b) ?) G. C6 r
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 I& j D0 T! d9 P" m
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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。 " X- n3 H0 y! ?! U' Z 8 b5 f) x: }& _7 ~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.$ V# a/ x/ W4 s1 C5 A; W; d
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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。 " ]3 Z6 ~3 r1 R N+ {- l6 d2 \" D / m+ L6 F6 j9 y/ N4 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. + M5 {9 z# R( s & ?% y! _, I: `- ~2 s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。 # l! ~# u+ Z3 v% \5 N ' ^- u# A* o- y/ E7 BWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 }, p% u! B! F2 [
0 |& o8 k4 J# }" h) ?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。- r4 V- l& @6 G$ W* v+ U& c+ R5 H
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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. . p* S; H, M/ C' v! q9 i: C0 d% a! w3 \ l
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。 6 l' [: x/ P; T( Q" i* I, z, t5 u9 z0 l! Z
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 R& B0 g& `% k: G f1 L- i8 K2 [0 t- T. \2 Y: S9 b, t
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) S/ o, y/ R c
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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. ; }. B M, m3 x5 q ; m1 c, L3 R- {1 j4 E9 n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。# O- V2 L0 u0 o+ r4 h# H2 n( c
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% y0 Y* J% b6 d! s# R
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: A$ j2 Z* e1 B. [0 \& sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.6 ]# y& u. B' g
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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。' b' S! U: d6 W, T% b/ P* ?, w2 t
) Y5 g5 \ `3 k. }' F1 v; uFor 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. " # {" j6 s2 y7 y4 S- Q9 `: C" N - J3 I5 Z+ ~0 {& t$ @* l* c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 Q" h# o0 ~% h6 u! e2 e/ A7 b
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* _5 [7 G; m8 l, E
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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。/ V( L; R0 O1 Z2 U$ C
- M7 H* z+ a3 j+ SLife. 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 b; Y; X. [3 X9 X- @% e. | - u. p1 s* M) t2 _& M0 Y) c, B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”。 & c( I: c/ p0 m( `4 G& j$ T, n2 E . N6 w+ z' b. N! a7 ~[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html