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： $ n: k$ J3 w E( t' E6 u9 E9 `7 e: c4 l) f4 g, @; v
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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.% o2 l' g; B$ K) W, K9 |
& q$ p: V7 t2 t+ W% |1 Q6 G3 h- o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”。 5 ?; i L* H5 x$ c0 k# j1 d1 X+ E! Y" [# T
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! v# m& ~' J8 \
2 F0 k8 p3 {: u! `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。# D" [: \9 x) v9 r2 m2 Z
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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.8 }( e2 i& R2 c* @0 W" K
4 p S' K& R' i& j9 d6 b# O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 F6 B) N3 V. M0 ^: j ) K. S- M% r8 KA 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 T" G5 v1 }4 C" b1 B8 s8 a. ~5 K
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。 - \" x! d9 K! w; i& C# U3 n: f2 j$ U3 s5 l
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ F- q% N7 H8 f- m* o0 X
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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。 & Z- l& F9 d ^/ H5 E6 } V- s0 [# w) g/ y( e4 v! T. L
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. 1 B+ P, Z+ z5 d$ j0 F" c 0 M" d; y- m- w0 T: 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。2 S+ H: H: M$ L8 j" R' V
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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 U, `$ R$ K+ h0 J. u" M& G 2 d+ ?; C' c% X0 s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。1 h+ f/ k: p2 n- `4 f2 B
( D4 V" g- T X$ x* f2 [' ~$ gYou 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. + {3 I' b' e+ L X/ B
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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。 M: X2 B8 U" _7 o7 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. , g: J6 C& _3 k8 F$ i/ Q. F! H; E# T9 x, L; x8 P* O
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; ^2 ^- Q, o& {( {: e 1 M" b' w4 m' zHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 P. ^& ?( A' P! j3 M( M4 e9 d
0 w8 s, q3 m0 g7 v1 ^. U8 S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。 6 ]- f3 F7 [( R: ~: C* N% x2 a* n3 s q$ l* @/ s0 s, \* T
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. "# h3 b( B& K8 J, T
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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。 j% a1 I* H2 G8 \1 J: [% S + H3 W; i( o) i" w2 I% |2 ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 7 ?, k7 m; r2 ]/ K3 R* y: b ) t; q/ S% S- U: L) u3 f9 U$ Q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。# [ [! ^7 q: ^* }* H
. ]7 b6 Y1 |' G, i ~ H% ~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." / h2 r3 e n. [" D+ c6 k! J+ y" P# Z$ b. J! H% L, |) Z1 g. Q8 c; h
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”。 ; s4 g5 {! N! ^2 D. q# B $ N2 F* ~! E% }+ y[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html