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/ W r) }* z; r 8 D! n( N8 i, b$ _5 F) P# E! k生命就是小甜饼：1 y8 v X7 P: l
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. 4 I, ^; l! M% D1 W2 a6 _* f6 u& A3 P" ]' k1 t2 P0 W& m. e: [) u
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 Z: j# k% U! D$ [ - d) e2 P) ^$ z1 uIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 2 G5 {: `% R2 G* \ + X* J2 M7 k! b: s1 j9 z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。4 c% d# u" O4 F: ` P/ O! t
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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.! W& Z6 c" ?; J) {6 Q
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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。0 z9 S$ U6 g( ]8 g1 m7 T' ]% V
9 r- F. {* O1 S0 V; Q f, s0 qA 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.5 S5 Y! W0 t9 m- }' Z* d
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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。 & J; u5 F& N: h C7 m5 Y 1 `# Q5 W8 D4 o# r( @. EWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# V1 @# W3 }% w- y3 s+ ^( h3 d
3 L( e- ~4 n* f) H- d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。 , [1 O- t! A' Z' G # ~3 A9 Z& D/ r' @9 @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.$ P6 m& `3 W& g$ t
7 a3 G( P# `6 _" [- \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。 ( k* Q2 f- P' r7 u7 ` Q# R % A$ Y- K1 R8 q% I, ^- lThe 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.0 ?% E R" w: a
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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。 6 h7 W m7 O7 Q3 s- N/ g4 ?9 e( i, ]% U
You 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. 4 c$ d" e3 t1 }1 u & W z W9 d# `4 q: M1 ~1 L* Q C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。 3 N. P" T4 O; q4 H$ a, R. u$ T) s7 e& R; o
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it." C- I0 M1 ?+ c( d+ S9 X; J0 ], ]
$ r. t; _& e. c% `9 @& ~. R0 F6 t9 G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 1 }" ~; z# n+ k0 @7 c/ t( z" _: {0 I6 w9 m& C% a" B W
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.1 L0 o+ b! x( o* ~7 Z
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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 D* _- _% B- W% J7 }" s) A* v. W
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. "( x6 Q: n! n- s6 G7 X' C% z' v
# _+ y) E7 ?+ K5 ?4 q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。 0 c7 D+ T) I. A. U' l - n' ~, N$ E+ j8 @9 TTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. s4 Q2 t( c5 I) `2 B
) ?( a# \6 f/ H4 [“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。! K( e# ?9 q- @. x5 ~3 B S
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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." 2 E* L( ]/ b) B, k 5 m0 _/ m( u9 i' s( s2 n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”。 ' o7 r3 G6 n- r. [3 d 2 H" k* v9 A$ n# ~% J: f[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html