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+ D9 a9 `( _' {. b% E$ l $ p. D/ I. O$ F+ p2 x生命就是小甜饼：( E- G3 T+ o# h
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.$ Z( s n0 a1 K) z
- G' c$ }1 g* m* @% S3 ~; v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”。 ! l0 u1 `, g+ G [ $ {- i0 i/ w- m& AIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 e" l: M* r: n4 q) |6 Q' | 9 u8 B6 U9 I/ B) w" E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。( v1 s6 @8 @* V6 ^3 r K
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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.5 x' K4 w# F9 `9 k( x+ h4 V
! P: S' p1 P. M/ A% k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。 x2 ~5 q0 m* f7 l% Y+ ~# @5 W6 O* K
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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., c! d. T. F" }
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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。 / u; M) j4 l1 q: @6 j. W9 P* I5 Y0 h# X' o3 d) T3 g
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# K" R" G5 ]5 w) d3 @
3 B% b! x. K5 u5 {% _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。9 X; m- U2 U0 ]. m4 H8 b2 D
0 O" W o' w( d2 rBut 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.) O( ?1 f8 m- ^9 E& R0 T* b
: B3 y" u5 V' A: [6 O) H3 V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。 , B: U; ^4 m# E1 H+ a2 A& b " K- L) @1 M- vThe 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. / |2 `1 g9 \7 l7 w; [6 _' h C) V+ Y8 m( Y% _2 ?
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 ` w7 D: }( B* O; [7 P8 g
?' W# S4 e7 g* S ^$ E' UYou 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" p6 a8 I2 ~- o* f, G9 x9 h' k6 x1 n: C1 k8 N2 [
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。 $ i1 T! J9 r5 y, D/ b! d4 U: u9 B8 l' r4 p
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 9 ?$ }9 d2 O( U* f! @: d- T ; Y/ Y7 [ }* x8 H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。* T$ `% c6 p; o" z6 d
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 M B0 f7 @; C1 \# O A' c, Y: W% S8 ]
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。/ c7 E; w& _% Y2 ~8 y
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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. "' S/ G1 E# r) E& [6 p0 T
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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。. X, Y: U* S: O+ k, @
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* q; J* s/ I4 B" C
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 h6 m5 p' }" b
! b8 b3 ~; r& [+ ]- q0 PLife. 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." / Q( ~3 ` i( m, Y2 j8 U; n _* D" D: C7 k$ r3 o
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”。 0 G8 T; b3 U. o2 ?3 p4 { , ^9 H0 I Q& ?: r% ^[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html