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 Q" Y* y' L0 }8 q+ W8 s) v7 H * B2 R: s7 T- x生命就是小甜饼：2 j# J; P7 Z( P) w& [, ~
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. 1 e9 D( q8 F" t7 |, v+ y1 t* k" k& e, `( i
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”。4 h. n3 g! u/ C% g/ I0 R
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " F4 T! q$ q! @+ l% o% K1 K: \3 `9 k* Z1 G/ p, A1 [7 y
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。 & K* H0 o: n0 {" a; }# V0 `; Z1 V3 h! X [
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.) s' c& a! ]; ~& B5 Z
1 ^: e8 A, Y0 t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。- O, I% x8 P; q: F. M
1 }9 ?# N& X& s$ h! j; SA 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.! p5 i/ d0 |- r
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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。 0 I6 Z D( G$ @% H P8 w F9 _. i2 U3 G* ]2 X
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.2 i9 T( p, G( c r
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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。 : Z7 y) p) c6 m # c* Y* C0 G7 e1 }; V {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.5 Y6 z* f& } y9 M" n) U
* H/ \4 Y9 \, H( `" ]6 d) k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。 + X# F7 C: J8 a6 n% v/ c: F- V" i3 g3 M& o( S2 T
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., c9 Y- V3 Z. c3 Y$ E- N* m& v6 r
! F' i) N g$ Z9 m' Z7 e# k0 TYou 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. 6 [% G! ^2 R; [$ Z4 `! E5 u- f5 z+ l
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。 6 a2 ^4 c) |$ D w4 K' r# q 4 d9 H* L8 E; n0 ~You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 q6 s0 t: ~6 x/ M5 O2 I
J; A9 M A2 O& ?你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 T+ o _' @; ^ 0 ]$ ^, ]7 Y. h8 g9 }Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., E6 c( ~/ d0 [/ }5 P: D
4 Y9 }* s* s& r9 z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。 ( J* P3 r) R& w+ p1 H6 L8 f' y % D3 X) r% s* ~8 qFor 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. "% n8 m* k& X+ k8 o6 C! c! m
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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) r8 t. h0 o8 n0 N0 A
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., U5 I4 Y* i5 t# E8 d: u
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 # ^6 J2 n V v8 f B# s# l% W' Z$ c' M9 w; O7 ]/ w0 D
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." ) k4 c ~ L: y- d5 w; J 1 _3 y7 Z2 |1 j" ~4 g* j' w% ?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”。 ' _% i. I, s, |2 H* K & R! Q$ y; M/ Y, ]9 S6 [8 Z[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html