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： / I [& e% {' d& Q( V+ o/ [9 g. f6 E- r7 Q% b4 s, Q5 X$ }8 n
生命就是小甜饼：9 S3 r4 x( o& Z( \
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.6 U( W6 o7 ~% W4 J. j: }
3 y# V3 X: t" r# r% W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 v5 m x' `8 E3 C$ H 1 _9 m4 V5 S. z5 `$ XIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ! ^1 H8 V; ~) n% T; B4 Z; _1 F( b) O9 S4 i$ u
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。5 J; n" u4 S1 }
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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.7 H' ~* m4 l% `7 T9 G
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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。* U5 d- L0 _$ D# O+ {
7 i% S/ C- n5 `- R8 W* @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. o+ ?# B; w: s: J% a% v5 N: Y* S, x % W4 u% d. \% [% C7 @: A7 u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。# @1 M' p3 U9 }& S
9 C# v( B; t' h* GWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 j* w( a3 [9 _/ i% |2 F% Z
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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。 ( ~2 b! t \8 W: j. j3 ] 6 D4 @# k6 I3 ^' e: X9 BBut 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. ' w! q, c# y9 Z1 A& v% D: F: n) R' } I6 e* I
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。# o! b$ M# L2 P+ z; [+ g
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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. $ p! _: B2 ^3 t: X. \5 e$ N7 G& n3 G: j- I h4 ?: S
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。' S0 _+ g7 q& l L! L3 Q" r
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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. 0 b( l" H$ L$ m; }8 U* T% a8 h6 ]
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。 0 s4 h& ^& ?, J' L9 g/ A( N $ R: l! L S1 c# w8 u. _+ J6 tYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. & ]- q$ g# ~: F7 A( C" c- D4 m& M n& p; j8 i" \
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。4 H5 d" N3 r! t+ g& I, y
) L* D( G% N( y; J* |9 g* gHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % W: q [7 z" g+ p8 Y' A( M3 i/ C: N- P
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。 # X8 q* R7 z! u; m# y * N% n+ t1 R# i( l2 OFor 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. "3 a* W& O0 U/ Z
! k1 \1 Q {) K9 g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。8 K0 l0 [ c; Z/ H" E* D
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ( g7 V& O: S0 \3 W5 b% Q" Y 2 G1 ~: C. z0 R# ^0 f; A“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 + E, n7 V" A6 _) y- S: r' B% ?- L# n: o6 R6 l+ p
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." + O A2 j/ m. g2 v0 X7 j / _$ ]) h4 }- L7 w ~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”。 . l0 u& }8 w5 V; O5 h4 Y* n, ` ) W( i. g2 T7 I( I6 q+ A/ m[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html