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： x' o# w/ K2 s! L7 g8 h0 ~5 L% g4 Q! D. U5 W
生命就是小甜饼： 8 [! q z& f% |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 G H2 B! Z! C, h2 x/ s n; Y0 R) M @3 z5 v4 A2 c
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 c, ]* w% D, a& ` D' i$ w2 m' C 2 i' X7 P1 e0 jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 d7 y* ?/ o" Q- x, |$ S7 { * J. T$ d! l' P, G S% O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。# ^ ?6 r3 X0 B& A
0 ?' G5 S6 m% Z8 hSome 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.# g5 n1 X1 r: ]* m& \
2 g5 C9 C- j. W4 o) i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。 6 |! m3 \7 x6 \0 X0 _& L/ C$ Y. D2 h/ a: I) S/ X/ f3 [
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.0 J, v w. L1 `6 u, E9 `
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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。2 A6 | f( P- Y0 D; W) X
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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.; H B3 k; B+ i$ P
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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。' G( ^: z! [8 B5 u" j9 q8 O; _
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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. ' P8 Y* w9 s& J " c q0 ?- \, `: ~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。6 S( T- j7 g7 V c" r% z7 Y
- F- B& [7 k iThe 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./ `. e3 d* w; j l9 X
0 L& G" N% M" C+ U% o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。& ] i* } @2 V" X: I, T
N6 f" n7 D" V' ~) z: m* F& H/ K' x' n x3 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. 2 P% r9 P, B. w
. x; Q& f3 s* c+ c, Z8 ^# ^* Z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。 1 [; |3 |7 g% c4 R' L , W! ^8 J0 O; \3 @$ \You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 U) H& s+ ~* v! |2 [
" q- h" N$ Z& {; l, F你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 X/ d u! g' s g+ A' [. \: c+ K & |2 s4 \% u* |# p, r+ X7 H2 AHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# @/ `7 ^. v7 F" d% u9 n) y
& x8 w% E; K5 r; A; d$ R# f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 \( B7 p; u9 t' J* ?* l0 W) c5 \+ E V
For 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. " " ^1 V4 t+ [) y# @+ M# O% \+ e2 m
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。+ r1 B: N9 \& |0 {$ {. F
: S, i, u; [9 j. B6 r5 W" sTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , L1 e1 }' G3 \ k9 K+ u% S% a8 V2 _2 B- f
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。) D1 v! C, C. ]& a' X* [5 v
+ M# N& `4 W, _' OLife. 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." $ B7 N% u' P; q7 }3 X * g6 K& @% J8 c( `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”。 + t/ j3 ^2 Q: p. t. R & {$ y* j8 D2 q; A& Y9 B& M[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html