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： * f! ^& S! z. g s# {2 @& D% j. ~) J x1 r; O
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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.& W* a' Y$ A' m- F8 W
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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”。8 r& z$ ]2 v2 J1 S- j
* D1 W& \3 T6 f ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. # Y0 s+ {5 T& V6 s9 q : ?: i% I/ Y; |9 j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。 ; a, W# H2 O4 A& w% r( X6 y) G$ }6 u& R3 Q% A' B
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. # f7 {" j' Z! E, ~3 J$ a0 Y 0 w2 b3 H4 \9 L' P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。5 }5 b+ E, \' h& ?& P
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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. 2 O; r) h$ g5 }- r1 [ / C+ n6 J2 S3 `7 o6 T. P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。 : i4 @6 c1 ]( A8 _# F. v7 R $ A) b$ n, i; X% p9 vWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. # w( H% s) x) u5 D" C r" N6 T- J- Y G' S% R9 E5 Z3 b/ ^
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。 6 T8 L2 E7 A c6 v# x5 \ " A7 V4 l# q$ }2 pBut 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. / u6 c1 t3 {9 A; S) ]% i O9 g& a# ^4 C8 Y
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。/ r8 } X' ^, S1 S8 b. C8 N: m1 s
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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.0 h" @! u, L* E z( Q
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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。 2 j+ n, O- O, F2 {/ L4 I 9 V* Y/ @- C% y* _9 h9 XYou 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. / X2 Z" v* o5 h+ {2 o2 {3 j
B3 K% @8 u3 c) F' [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。 , w8 B7 W2 b: g% T8 c9 [* L" H7 [$ E$ O/ U0 k z
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 7 Z/ _7 U2 U& R% S" N& j6 q" G2 B9 ~
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 _* t! w; @1 s6 J- O* u$ m* s- e; O1 m4 B
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. * e& v& z, v& R# T + n6 `( N/ _- F* q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。% W" Y# I8 B1 b& ?2 j) C& R
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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. " # C- f+ E9 h3 h1 p# L6 w7 ^. I 4 S0 O* v. b7 i7 n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。 ( f* b) d$ Y s @8 _6 U E% v1 C1 B : h/ _% r2 B5 ~0 Z1 h7 b) v+ CTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.8 Q( x2 M# u8 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。 8 \; H' Z F! h1 D/ r! S " {5 J5 K1 J4 D# n4 g0 OLife. 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." ; n& O G1 z( l$ j; q( u1 l$ O K0 h3 @$ }" j w. |) |' s4 @+ p9 U
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”。 : n, d' m9 e0 c! [% @, \ ` ( j! V$ l; [( w, b Q[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html