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： 3 k" P0 a, Z: k1 b1 E8 E9 `' B ) S0 ~: K# }2 H$ A D- ?生命就是小甜饼：( |, j- |# m0 A+ s
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. : g2 T1 F) ?# t8 u7 J 6 r0 ]7 k6 h* z- Z# }6 a- `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”。 : z! N5 X$ G! Q! m7 ^, m9 Y3 r1 X8 f! Z+ q6 Z
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : s l: Y% j0 n# ^/ P/ }5 h0 | 0 I& ~- c5 x/ W U9 W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。 ( z- N; [1 T D% U5 Z6 v; H- w6 M- S1 v! e; i
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.& e U/ F! j$ r7 ?: x+ A S9 [
9 U# u2 ^, @5 t- u7 T1 _0 l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; P% o0 @- Y2 \6 v! b% Z9 I4 a' z8 E/ s" P; {2 Z8 [# j
A 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 v: v) Z) ~# e, s+ D" |* I8 _
! u K7 J/ p' v& h# B* ]( w) j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。- q7 x2 Q2 N$ }
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % y5 k" U/ T/ k% a6 g# s! R ) t/ v& M- h; s+ x8 Q3 O1 X* F9 }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 z5 ^ J9 F$ q4 X% S
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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. + y2 x5 q; y- g1 P9 A ) {$ z+ x7 _# U& M! L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。 & B1 F" ^4 e0 Z: l( ?0 f6 j% o# L& R3 E) 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.3 l8 D; H: p! s4 D( n1 q# D
3 M9 U! N. l" ?" y7 F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。 ) F) B7 S8 A3 D% c; x2 @3 }1 e5 t* B$ Z, R* y0 B9 l1 I) m# J! Z
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. 0 B {, b2 @2 U- n; w& D2 f9 {# Z0 u$ G; v7 _7 T
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。 ! z/ K: v" Q* f. n( K6 a9 ~1 h4 k# G5 Q; b# A
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 9 _9 l3 f4 k x5 q& y. g8 s6 Q4 ~' Y) a$ J: F- J
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 2 i1 A& y" x3 W# E3 Z8 `: f" T& i
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! I) A6 W0 d7 ?. n/ g
6 {# |# B8 V3 o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。 1 C0 W% `5 z7 ?6 s7 [' k1 F * u6 S6 f7 [# g4 [6 UFor 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. "7 q5 ~( l; u. n- T' v( \
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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。$ d. F3 I' Z( }' \9 Y: G% m/ |$ G
8 a9 V' D7 A9 u5 e3 xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 E# q5 w- a8 U$ X . o p$ O; Z7 r# e: w0 K; l/ E2 c“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 , Y+ l F) K7 A . x& r& K1 \( T; q. q7 j5 m# lLife. 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."2 F3 `% H: C' P
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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”。 / U" g/ Y* y6 X5 q: b- u/ f! f- F- E' e % X K$ ^9 |7 x4 A4 E; I[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html