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： 4 @% l0 U7 U& W+ i0 p , v/ P6 l% f7 ~. a( a生命就是小甜饼：' @" i8 z! z; n 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.8 O$ I, J: j( K: ~ ?4 w
; [% O7 g5 @ |9 s' t4 a$ }% G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 y, C8 H1 x. e& a
' ]) l9 z& l" L5 TIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " p! n9 [; E! n' C; v6 w5 h# `" Z* v. q& N% f% {
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。8 i+ S7 {0 H! V c+ Y. W
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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. 4 d4 _8 |7 X' z: G' o5 g ; H: f1 R* V; ]7 x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。 % w f" ?) b% D% L* p( N7 ~3 H+ h! e
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.( _( [& q8 z. t" F! _
& H. _5 _ j0 m" e/ F4 OWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " h+ h- ^' A- S$ u- D( _ _/ ` l3 g) k3 N) l7 E
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。 ~3 p6 H) w' |$ c; C! p' p
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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." S7 V9 M; l/ m6 X/ q; O6 n2 u
6 R% d/ r9 _9 M+ }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。5 s" P' [* C8 x, r' r$ q! P
1 d4 L$ ~+ S# d+ n/ b5 OThe 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.6 b( t/ c5 }3 f& z
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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。 7 d- C9 C9 _: H0 t/ [1 [ 1 h0 @$ X! y; z# {9 P j* 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. , x! y* n5 |: v' G. q3 ?% ?, K" W6 ]& y% g2 h
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。 : E! @3 C$ H* l % ^5 C% V6 r! A" C3 y4 ZYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.$ d+ Q& b) w2 X% O0 T1 F3 [
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % F4 Q" V2 }3 H# U; d) G: J3 g4 R
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 `6 D5 J8 `# n/ U, j( h/ x" ?- P9 N: \. {' t, |' K8 k, [
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。 5 Z8 S8 w( T; A5 C. h2 y9 n2 I3 d3 h" w- J+ O
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. " ( s: l/ w3 r% s7 y9 Z2 k! b& C2 V* J - `- ]0 w9 h9 Z1 v$ ~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。+ V- i) J3 s' D! d2 T) Y. j' }5 _# Q
r) B2 Z# C" ]. {3 jTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. , n, A5 e0 |; t1 K8 m+ g ]0 H( v. g8 g! P, K! K3 H5 P
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 % C2 e! l5 E8 o* R! K5 R8 W7 a6 H- q$ B) z, L2 o" T
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."3 o# R/ D3 f, n) C
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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”。 7 C+ e- u4 ^* L 1 X8 Q3 o: D' R6 H$ s[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html