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：4 V/ x8 x; L0 E. R
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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. \: A" l) k+ F' H3 R 2 B% t" X# l9 ~% E9 ]5 Q9 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”。 % m+ q/ {: T) i5 e, u2 X( o# p# g4 Q; s
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ( b9 T+ Y( r, t0 t% ]' a* F$ w! n 8 n: {( y m: Z& u$ r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 F% f( ^; J( o
% D/ T, ]* {5 } U2 Z, D! Z3 }$ rSome 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.6 H! M/ u7 G/ O/ ]
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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。 ! U9 A5 ~2 R N) r 2 j. m2 S- O# {; tA 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. ) U7 U+ w* B1 W/ S0 i5 D4 z) ?" Z9 ~6 i8 M W, D
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。 Q& a1 L" Z. p' R1 _! c8 x' B. l$ x! j" ~$ p2 I# T4 K
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 X5 \7 ?4 V. ~% P8 Y& J
9 `+ \9 ]% g5 |/ }+ l- g6 I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。 ! \6 Z, D' l5 Q' T2 q% \7 S3 X' @ P5 s
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. ' g. _0 S |9 t" h9 S4 B! [& y7 ]: r# A$ ~
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。 ! u; i$ T0 I8 h- T0 Z' Q 2 ], f! G7 @' X9 D$ 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. % {, s' k: |- j& t( y% r, e, M 7 | m+ q: _, a- K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。9 e/ Y# `9 B9 l
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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. ( Q/ T/ Q$ h% Y
3 w$ z3 Y3 u5 L" p5 Y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。 * P2 k4 ^! d# E! F* y, U - y+ [6 T7 q( IYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ! M( O8 q& n7 x4 [! E7 N- U" b" S ) G* p* ?% {+ ^# ?. E8 c- J你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ; O) s; \4 L2 l' y7 m8 g * O2 I9 S& e0 ]4 J; wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( S: c: I* V a& @# M$ ~ # d7 E2 J/ B9 q$ E' \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。 3 Q# P* A' T2 ^. P * k& A" \% Q0 e0 x: i2 ?7 iFor 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. "3 n* [3 l- [5 X- w
$ D9 P! E6 q: d/ x& B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。 + u: k. i9 T5 k& W 7 S( L5 D2 [/ S" `8 dTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ; { F A$ G- I! Q- s# o2 {- Q- ^0 H2 M* g" p B2 L: N4 @ V
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 , N% z9 ?, M; X. z3 ~ , ~6 N2 t* s4 _' hLife. 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." 0 j! S9 h5 O% W& e5 I9 {9 [% c4 R! q* W( D8 u
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 B a+ ]2 k( U2 Z! Z 2 c. |5 j7 E7 f[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html