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： 7 Q0 d3 n. l2 \" E( ?0 e' k, A7 x/ B9 E% M5 q* |! ]! @3 u: ~& K" ], B
生命就是小甜饼： + W$ o' I6 q1 T: hOne 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.5 a% H4 m1 [- }1 X8 ], L' v& h/ y
+ q; K7 ~+ q. J; m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”。 |# H7 e5 _4 S& p! Q( w1 b( B6 D0 G! ~+ M, t% d7 [( q i
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 6 j) j+ S& @* Y1 l& g v9 Y- P# N+ Q) L2 G u7 {
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。 ) j3 k& L8 X! e( u7 m4 u, t- m; l; n# p+ Y8 H4 I1 E' u' j
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. 0 m- }% B1 }8 Q0 V8 E) u0 H/ }0 D4 s2 |
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。 , G7 b2 F' {" a5 r ( H$ w3 H; d5 h: H" Y0 Q0 HA 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. 4 T! h. s& t8 G$ s: C! b# ^& w$ j 7 H" }+ g l8 i; R3 ~* T* I. Y {5 a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。 $ y; Y# S! M* z; V ' j( n% b; E% U4 h* O. uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.; X5 j- `7 l5 c) z+ `
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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。4 |" u4 t6 k& b. v( T0 k, v6 Q
+ j- J. }& K' B. S/ nBut 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. " |* j$ _0 T X4 m* U 1 r3 \# p4 a# G \$ D8 i( K6 {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 K& Q( Q# J+ \5 U3 k. y- k
# _6 r5 \$ [, Q! e/ A9 z+ @1 I: s+ OThe 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.( P& b2 b! \& Y+ [1 |
6 e" |0 p5 s: _* 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。0 h& T6 [; |- q# O* v5 s
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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. 8 Q) S, G+ `1 m8 f- c: X- A1 d8 q) y8 F! B: Q& U
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。 1 _" k: h9 d& a4 r 3 z+ |8 [% P4 W) o! mYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , U# n1 t! r/ D$ P0 d* M 5 F9 `0 f7 S* X3 l; ?$ w8 I你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。/ b) j" ?) D+ O* k
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & N, q# ~0 P; Q3 q6 W " a- ] O$ U* b7 |5 h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。 & d8 B6 `8 L' v# j' ]/ r& ?) s/ 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. "- x( N; a4 B W6 j. z6 }
9 f" h6 E! o* _4 L7 M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。/ t, p1 u. J( ?( U2 F; I
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 s3 H2 R# f- X7 ^; [: g/ e% h. V$ h' k" t
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! }* o$ n4 a F9 }/ f
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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."4 X' }/ [" r0 s7 G+ H/ q
+ ?- b Z- p: J0 B) r% x1 e2 v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”。 9 _6 m) S; m0 ^4 f' U* j5 g 7 @8 O! W) G, s& `[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html