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： % c$ i- ?0 r2 e+ U' d' Q3 m7 g1 t5 _8 h, {6 B. M: w
生命就是小甜饼：4 p# t! p4 P& K4 a/ P
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. . x- T0 U: Z% Q* N7 ^$ O- }2 ?2 _; m: ?! t i- w0 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”。 & x, h0 o, U3 ?% f+ g) Y ( m& P& L& w0 G. v; b. d8 QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 L2 q8 W, p& x5 d 4 K# Z" N) `+ o! I( n7 C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。+ ^ \2 I. T" o
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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. x+ E; R9 E4 A3 B9 c" ?$ |
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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。 ! j; H# k+ B. c% g1 r+ e1 n; ]4 W9 {
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. / a/ Q& ~4 g" a K0 j # z! `1 R9 L8 T) g; j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。 8 y2 w1 A" s1 ]1 n q3 L+ B+ h+ W: N3 J b* k5 d1 eWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.1 T" L. J; B8 H" V3 w2 c
/ W/ x5 Z F$ t$ h( r v$ [& c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。 5 p; U& H% }" `( j c6 @ `* T7 _7 s8 j
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.7 |! P. W9 S0 l T
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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。' D7 } u# j6 _1 \4 }5 C) B* t
G& g! A3 H" d: t6 [/ FThe 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.# M0 G; n6 d. q5 p
& l& s. }4 A0 \6 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。3 q) O Z, }) U% F/ Y
+ L( `" k# R) e; \! N& V( wYou 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. 2 W) E' y! j! S1 w _, q! R; Y y. i- d0 i" ~) z( ]0 v0 T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。. t+ V& |- ?& s" C. o
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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. 5 D, l. w& ?( [2 m2 s8 A( K7 b, s/ r9 f4 d* D
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 p* c. I$ I5 x9 [' | - ?; G$ |1 V$ J: i" C: EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. . n" k" x8 ?3 G- k) q! W; f- k. v5 B* v
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。 $ y0 }8 \' e7 [/ ]! D. S+ y# M/ l/ X: i U
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. " , V, r, J2 A' F' V# q / f [! n/ o1 h* h8 v: d- m0 ]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。 ) l$ @0 b* o5 C) L# y3 b' ` 1 v- w, J% m* ]/ I! w+ T/ RTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.9 S$ I. v* |- L9 F4 _
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% _6 E$ t X8 C* b5 F& T% B4 [" kLife. 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."/ \9 P' g. H4 U1 Y+ d% ]
% i) x" W. k) Y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”。 ! m$ ~! [3 u5 k3 C) X8 g- r # ~. {2 {: `& }[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html