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： & @6 C9 [) q$ g' F/ a8 f7 T- \, n, B- c. ]! e# d7 x
生命就是小甜饼： 5 z5 e9 Q2 M DOne 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.: z% X( p: R K }; S+ 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”。7 k0 v1 I8 M! l3 d
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 1 F9 I1 _# k! `$ Z( L w. J0 g; Y4 O0 J 4 h' K/ J+ m4 Z5 k$ f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。 ' s0 h9 G8 ?* [ + S# [6 \. S! H. PSome 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. 0 \+ h; R9 ]9 { 9 p6 ?) a+ H1 `" L$ s4 M; `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。( Y% R* y+ S; \; g# W
; n7 o; S# y. D8 BA 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.6 C& P* F* \0 t$ Z
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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。 & g& c1 M% Y8 r- |2 L ! l0 u1 O2 Y% E9 [& J0 t: o7 eWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 1 [! E& I' \9 _4 g6 T4 Q+ @3 m5 G$ c1 S
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。 $ U- O3 U# {6 _* E0 |; Z; k4 v3 \: V
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.% d. L( }5 `# o5 ]$ E% z& v, l
1 x4 C3 h' `' h: Q1 B) s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 ?/ u" |8 S# T. Y/ B p
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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. . s. s0 i+ ^. i1 w/ W# R9 V' X, W0 z( u
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。9 v* h5 p( M% f" }4 M0 b$ W
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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. ( m; G0 ?: d# ]" q2 @) ^1 G' s: D5 j, P) I* B/ v) Z
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。 3 k7 l' _3 t# ^3 N7 b% w1 @1 q7 w7 {( Z2 z* {
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; x+ G# ?' Q! B0 L& z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; J, A* c" R3 D % U* r) _1 O9 y5 l) gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., W% i, d7 p/ k( 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。 ) L8 F% c3 n0 V0 V' a/ U - s/ W5 Y# Z8 Y: V O* ?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 s6 Y* O' e. @5 w" s& f
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 W* ]( M5 J9 {6 b6 R. U
/ _- x6 W$ E. A8 D" e“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 V" M) j2 X. q& m6 ]( g1 m
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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." 8 x$ A( V/ ~9 G" S2 W/ s5 @8 L ` 5 D5 K% N! B) `& l1 V, E( b# N. ~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”。 0 ~4 m$ p( p1 b3 k( N" ^2 @2 X: h9 U ; l8 |6 c! U7 W% X- l' P; s[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html