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： 0 X: ?5 Z o& C 8 H; o3 j! n( A2 h, h0 J生命就是小甜饼： 8 j# w- s' U4 Y; j \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. 7 H, w, G' t2 x+ V! s: T; z' T 1 }1 L) t& H% N5 w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”。8 B& u% P# f& u/ H
# P W0 F3 d5 r) J; `, y$ V1 V% XIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 1 f$ ^" Z5 P2 Y C( z6 p) A- Y! r0 |$ g+ L* p
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。* O3 A* n8 d3 i2 [- l5 { [" a7 Q
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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.* K9 E6 i) t% x: R! t1 G
6 l l' N0 ?/ y9 I! j( g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。7 o0 U- A* ]. R1 A- K/ S. y
, p& g U5 I# `+ |: ^$ mA 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. # x; D& j3 |. L& d! ~ Y1 I+ I5 B1 u
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。 9 {* T: t" p( G S% O; R, G 5 }( H+ ^" G$ HWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.4 o' A' ]4 H: O T
/ q5 W: D) W/ M: y. t X; q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。1 Q0 `3 p0 Q! b; h; E! ]6 v. v
. ~( n# m. [& [$ rBut 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.9 r$ C( b& B; c) [- g9 S9 \
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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。% U) c) @$ x C8 L! R4 v5 o
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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 B0 \. a: ~5 ^: l3 C3 _* p& n# O/ @$ ?/ _. 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。9 e7 ?7 U& ]+ j
- E. F- J. x4 X( XYou 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. ) j: M/ H. r* P' j6 ]2 j0 F) ?
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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。 F$ }0 y, G" e4 K3 G8 A5 i9 ?% y( s7 ]
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 c' R1 n3 y M9 G6 A
1 N a% X7 x6 b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。$ u! r! I Z/ b% s4 d
% @/ d* M/ O5 l% G- gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ( U" N' \# E. C. F8 p9 } 1 d) ?( U3 Z w3 T$ 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。 % o6 u) o4 Y& |9 u, P* }1 S ( }* c/ x. @' C7 H6 JFor 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. " ' a$ b" F/ |" X/ U: I" G; g0 N f7 \/ f* X3 K: Q
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。 8 c( k3 ?3 V! y' u. }! e4 D* m5 n6 ^0 m1 F+ ^+ S- k. _
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 j5 f8 m$ k1 y) I6 e + b4 C5 d$ d: ?3 j“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。1 J. C* _1 ]- [4 j6 g/ p" {/ |0 S
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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." , z, N @1 |0 j% j% k' n5 X, w) f, Z6 E3 U5 v& M
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”。 : x2 @, R5 _* ] 0 @) n% T1 h! l. \ i' E[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html