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： & K9 R, d' c' `" \4 t2 d ^+ f1 i) {# Q: X" ?7 {
生命就是小甜饼：! c( a8 C: ]1 k: v
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.- N. H+ m" {; s* |1 _9 V
; v( K# K1 G0 A8 e# D$ D) w# {7 F; V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 f& w2 W, `7 H2 J- ^2 R; N* g & u0 u W6 r F1 tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; R U ?6 j, F L$ B5 U6 F, ]5 Z$ x! E% W. H
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。 / k6 J: H& L7 ^; B& J4 X! y* @2 r- D" U8 Y
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.# w0 p. a) f+ ~# m' u! a
g5 d+ c5 g; p0 J# y. j8 c( [. nA 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. R8 \/ R% |2 j( p
' J3 w; q( e8 l( a/ mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( C2 Y9 J+ ?8 h8 |. D- |
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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。9 P L1 H$ v" a
2 D+ p/ W1 u; _9 F( D" BBut 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.% B0 f4 }! Y. |+ {: T0 N+ a
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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。 9 \% R5 @- A2 X! ~! C" }( m5 H1 K; h2 e7 z( u$ m, c* H
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.% ]. }+ H0 C0 m
' ~/ e: J- O8 F/ p* e' g% `- x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。+ a- }% y5 \8 _, a7 g2 I
0 D& I" G' c1 `! Y6 kYou 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. + O9 T# p- T0 I0 b $ o2 g; p9 `4 [5 L; c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。 - @' U* L3 p" U4 q i# I ; H) K. E2 r: D/ v; jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.2 T, ?. x; K7 H% g8 e7 m! b5 ]" a
, _& } c" M9 G4 [, F: D+ }6 \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 l& v- k5 b5 @6 R2 ^) e3 A1 x+ J# w* `) o$ Z% _# `
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 j3 O* ]' q! A
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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。( b8 [. G2 f% h* P8 [, c
& B* W% }4 B/ N0 pFor 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. " / E* d! {+ J \! O4 Z/ w9 b- V1 r: \2 O
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。! M. ~1 C/ Z. z: k" Q; f q
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.( O1 k' w: l2 o1 s' ^; O8 A% {
, |- E: v: ^ p' ~9 E7 @( L“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ) T7 f: O* N2 b: z! w) Y4 S! f3 S4 `% F
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."! C8 h1 w0 M: q+ U e& i
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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”。 1 [9 }# P1 _( w) q0 ~: ? 7 L- c& {- P0 E1 `[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html