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： : V4 X, |7 g/ r6 Y9 [$ I( o' y* T4 R0 ^% t! R" u! q2 ~. f9 }
生命就是小甜饼： 8 X3 x: M( D7 c }5 z0 g7 tOne 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.+ U, z0 R% g) t' l Y$ e0 @; S U
! ?8 g8 D5 `3 P& G1 x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”。 + c0 {- L/ `4 b; D 0 S! l' D: ~7 w+ q5 VIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 Z5 n @2 {. i/ r4 x0 n" u: r8 S$ }0 P6 C
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。7 Y& `# v: ~. y
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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. , D1 O2 N9 X9 B/ n - e8 s6 j- \7 \4 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。 5 }3 U, g v; ^) j, J E6 ^ . X* n8 _+ e wA 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.: A. q( A1 e7 v* L
/ g- A/ C* {% ~) W& bWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.7 m+ r0 R3 c) E
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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 I4 j- j" H4 n
- ^+ J3 Y( q; P2 NBut 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.: _# A/ x# B! u# p5 s# J! r$ y
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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! Q! N# E 3 n. Z" ]9 x; [) r. O2 [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. + Y9 i3 L2 ~9 k7 d% ` ) [! }+ t" }# q0 |" w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。 . i7 `- a2 s# }" C & p/ s0 S/ X6 r2 _; P gYou 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. / [2 _8 f, @* q2 U# f $ S7 Z/ R. L7 p# O# |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 x& u" s* `! J& w( l2 @ 4 M' J0 _. h1 cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 d( O! C+ M& [0 C
) @+ G1 i* U2 j1 W! GHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , l$ x8 P' z5 P0 s9 q & E+ A; ~( } 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 J# j5 o5 b+ 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。& o. N- u! G' f- ^
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# G* l& c+ |! ]; L l# a% p5 F
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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。 + m. R9 e+ p0 d( w: O$ h; C1 c & S+ L( u: i2 M2 I( |7 {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." ) ^0 _" U; D" J8 A7 `7 [: M5 n 5 Q2 q; Q' k0 i, ~$ _5 a, B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”。 * |" E) h# ^/ ^2 H3 a4 ]# g , D( L4 K9 n. \[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html