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： # J+ K/ l1 ~8 E ) h9 a: Z) K. t! ^0 u生命就是小甜饼：9 }% V6 q" P/ N0 I% c: 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.* \! B0 ~+ ^ Q0 m, |4 \
. [0 G7 c5 F! j# z* m+ T. i+ B7 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”。 + r! R% t4 T" C H1 d . }8 S. v, x `0 oIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 7 u# G2 S1 @1 }8 e$ B( \' U! L8 ~
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。 ( I* q0 d& P5 t2 L9 K 5 A. D* B2 V+ [1 kSome 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. % }# B/ W) F& q. d/ ~) K& o6 h . s' l! U# g5 B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。 3 y) e& ]" o, C% w' e * w# @% U! b, O/ y* w! Q! z4 OA 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.3 t+ Q* W$ f0 l0 {* j k- l
% p5 u2 r+ [. \) R2 X0 B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。 $ U( t; \( z* l2 ` . O) @# |( Y7 mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 x4 E; I/ g# m8 O9 O3 s( \0 e- z
7 \9 i2 U' B& N, ]# i6 F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。/ c" R1 H/ n; v
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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.; H! p7 ]+ }4 V
U; K8 o. @) D5 m% c" }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。 ; a. |4 O% Q: j# e. B( Q6 ~) q8 p) v! S; H: j. f: [
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.# H7 [) u" j+ U/ I# t" L. B, C
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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。 v. P# Y+ e$ e! n# S* Q
4 I+ P7 s. I& W8 `! AYou 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. ! K: Y1 h/ d5 t0 k; l5 T. o6 L8 w' ?. S- c8 ~
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。8 A, y6 G2 O _. p9 E
5 b& B1 i6 c7 T* N0 N* w- t- lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ) c7 R# |7 Q; M: f' J. g/ u ' z+ B/ r5 D8 R( a% i你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 e4 N$ ]8 b9 O2 _9 A# D: \6 ?# d, M# P. L: o) u) D
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 8 t& Y. l8 g7 k% ?2 n. n; x) t; v5 b$ w {4 s0 s
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。& h+ M( t" \5 g1 v
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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. "7 b% C8 W* P; ]2 z& D6 c0 D4 R! W
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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) Z4 T, m
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 8 x* c$ H; M H+ X) g. x( u! `; O9 U5 g4 p5 p; d
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * U* L+ W( o$ L" O9 b) f. A$ I3 [9 ]/ e8 }1 u3 n* ` D4 ?* m$ e
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 _$ ]( ]# e& u. i* P1 e
0 _3 c1 L6 @) \' M, g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”。 4 E' a9 r* k) o' c$ I! v+ K/ k 4 I; E* } P% `9 s' a. A1 ]" w( x) v. t+ ?! h[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html