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 p7 x/ h" ?: q ) g+ f9 |% _7 q7 e生命就是小甜饼：) o N* y0 f5 o
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. 8 o# }7 v1 k T3 t' y7 K6 K, w: n: J8 N8 f! _
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”。* d# ~: g( b- d/ l* C
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.# n4 W8 H; O6 c! `. b
4 z& x; Y ], A# X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。8 w3 B0 d% k0 A5 B' t! p" Z8 Y# C
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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. I5 C: C7 l8 N$ E3 O0 n# t7 N5 p7 ^7 r3 p0 l5 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。& y. d* Y$ x Y8 {5 j
) D$ B5 d& M, a% U$ 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. / w2 ^3 S4 w* m) m/ ]: _% ] H5 L4 t! i1 g+ Z
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。 O8 _8 |, N$ ^, B6 k \ h% y) y( b1 j2 b! [5 FWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. . t$ P) T& R6 F7 V" f* H 2 A+ h* [% h! g2 U0 R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。 , C! R+ Q" M8 Z$ U/ P! q3 E# |+ l5 h7 h1 b! N b
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./ v1 Q7 k3 D9 U! h! M
5 L* o: y5 Q. i* m6 s& P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 P1 Q) `5 p' A3 L; m A' S9 E# J# H
) \( G9 T) L( m4 C% {/ W# bThe 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. / H# |6 O; L* O- m+ F2 N7 r1 x9 v. V+ I
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。 5 \ \" S6 K, N. E2 Z7 \5 Y2 s- A; Y1 r+ j
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. ; _& Y# X+ g8 o7 i) ^3 N: [5 `
" w/ Y; M2 J) T3 L, C7 T% ]2 X0 ]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 [+ A2 a, g' [; [! J 4 @0 j t- B1 }$ G( HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 5 v5 ^* {( |! S8 {$ ]! z- v5 v# F2 ~& D9 A 6 p. Q. w0 m6 T! w! ^# l你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 v L9 Z( X, z% G5 o3 \ ; ^- s; ?8 M7 t" H0 RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 I. j- f+ L4 ] O: 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。1 P) c$ Z7 g# U9 h
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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. " 9 Z6 z. ^# e% k; ?9 E7 p5 p4 b* Q. r* r; k: x1 H# O! 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。8 e4 X' J6 v0 L. O. c/ ^
* I/ q- l0 w' a% _' @ r4 S; s3 STwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 2 [' j7 u4 a. L L% k! f# _( w" Z3 t3 `; D& o' c! O7 H O
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。& \. N8 L. l4 Q. B1 ]; x% v& {
, U: y8 h; Z l5 r/ g* G, m+ fLife. 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." 4 I, T2 ?4 t7 @& s* X6 j0 l- z! r! h2 E7 {' l& @4 w
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”。 , {/ M3 f" I$ @) _ 1 K. Z0 x! Z/ A2 H6 v" q- G[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html