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： ' ?# P' B5 y' K( T' D9 x; C) f0 I5 P" _( N3 k3 m2 H w9 \1 C
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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.9 _. u0 z% }* v# P. @1 k4 o5 @
' p2 K/ m& s) j% B: `; t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”。 1 g: d3 P% ?7 Z* ^- t* b0 ~4 d/ c4 ]! P& n, ~# c4 q% z; W
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. , b0 W! T; B8 z* [; i8 b' Y6 G3 h8 C$ 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。 7 E2 E" q% E+ z! H1 j; t/ B : u, S5 R! o" U- W& }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.( q% P" d' m2 q9 V7 ^* L
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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。4 i. \: I' u- e" T) d& j
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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. 8 c# d: p+ ?$ P3 R 1 a1 r! p; _: 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。& `$ n! O8 C* F5 i* c7 h
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 i3 l9 p) }/ }8 j
6 n! V. t3 ?) D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。 1 K$ |7 P$ k4 T$ a; E' g9 J: }, @$ I" j2 H$ Q9 t# A% }" 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.! C" m( K2 {! [! s1 l/ e( \$ T
$ ^* d. |: k7 q8 r; D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。 1 z* h7 p# q6 `2 f* w 0 [" D3 w, k3 a2 X# e; J8 WThe 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., J8 ~: }: Z! m; C- Q8 C
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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。/ r$ [' B( I8 s8 R; D) L# b3 J1 T! q- @
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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. ) A' ^0 O, m5 i" E+ D# n. N5 i6 L0 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。) O0 n4 k5 B! a$ O' X" X& O
( ~1 f6 Y% b9 U6 `9 ~. O# YYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 x; s: @+ y5 E% G3 d1 n
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 " P0 Q( {' t% G0 _( `( F. Q6 P. G" T3 y
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 K& ]1 s- ]. F M! g0 K! |% Q4 ~) P" |3 j! m8 m; p: s! w' r
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。 * j p( y& K) i$ @* }4 V0 { 6 S1 l4 O4 O4 s0 g0 l3 zFor 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. " $ s- r7 ~0 r+ @" R2 [, r5 r4 ?, f- R0 F0 t& F% Q9 I" s; k
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。 ( o5 f& ~: ~& U' [( Y8 L' a, g' p. L2 c; f, u+ m' V
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) \; v4 r9 N- N* z/ ^( |$ m: f. a, B
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 # h7 K1 j. y+ G+ U4 s2 J : x) G% W1 ?1 Z/ g' s) JLife. 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." . L, Z, l9 G& b* c, o1 D# C" w5 L b3 X1 C" `* c
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”。 5 h0 y6 g+ l% }- p+ O% m8 | 4 K2 H H( d* j" O0 p, L' ~+ `[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html