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：; V* r+ b0 l1 U" B9 F' h
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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.7 K7 v; k; R& ?
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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”。2 |. E- I! |/ y. ]! r/ K' Q9 y4 Q
: [) n$ C+ ~* z! ]! h9 WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . f4 E* @, q0 K6 I/ ~0 a* W, M2 B3 h. r6 r5 ^7 c
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。 % ]( F7 T4 L( L$ ^8 _8 J- U& e 7 a" B1 R5 Y9 v$ \% E9 c/ W ?5 XSome 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. * P$ }' @( S8 c- E% z' ^) r& U# w, E9 F. J
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。# b$ Q: y" t; ~% c
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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 |" ]9 e& ^/ A+ n" G( H - e( b) U- K, y+ l! q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。' X* p; s! ~2 [& L3 o) y
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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.8 Y9 A. c2 c3 d
- C+ t$ X' z& l& r/ s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。 ' q8 j; ~1 k6 a1 `) E' a: {5 J9 J+ ?: X/ y; 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. / u) F9 G$ T. B3 x$ \# H( v8 L1 S4 z6 R+ R7 K1 D" ?
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。 9 i, N* ?- f( q- P9 j9 b' m$ g! D' z4 F C; j
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. * i8 ?7 _$ \! ^ 1 N/ d# ^6 U5 l; [7 a" y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。 + `! s4 p! b8 A 2 O) h# A4 B7 Z+ h: _; 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. , J# P, I- u( F+ V; s8 T- m3 D k
* O! U6 o/ k$ R3 ^3 W2 o/ g) o7 r; q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。, Y U9 ^6 l$ S7 e- ?
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., F9 P% O9 `; j7 u, U+ m- T
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。0 @5 q3 ^. @ W. {5 w1 V2 M
5 [$ C+ Y: }9 {1 g/ ?$ F6 D2 wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.0 R1 k0 z! F6 A
, w8 S6 n, D, ?1 N* }4 z- p+ j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。 * u. ~" o: I$ R, A8 s7 |; w0 ` 3 C( f8 T( l4 a2 i/ C7 GFor 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. " 9 G+ r+ v/ y) D9 u! T4 `& U6 h ( f) Z, ^" I9 i f9 k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。5 G( a3 I: y) ~' G
/ s5 }+ [, \/ F) QTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 0 R6 S* f( S9 Y% O3 ^7 @/ C& u% N* R
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。3 ]; v' [: Z- @: O4 e
) ^9 w9 W# o( y1 VLife. 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." ^, g. Y8 R1 j! F % H5 }% M7 W7 Y) L5 b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 M0 h( _9 j5 h5 v0 j; ?& e* e 7 O# ^ u: k0 \( h& x[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html