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： 5 {! e. D4 ?$ I3 A0 U' D( [8 v
生命就是小甜饼： & R# B7 S/ {8 Q- N" ZOne 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./ D4 ]. Q9 N) h7 @: A+ r
5 v8 o8 h9 d9 v! v4 _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”。 ) \# L: Z2 p! h" K! S3 x \ * R _' |( Z) kIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ r* M" R) @1 g7 R
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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 B" j4 H6 I9 [( u6 e$ {! m: [# l- u0 Y/ y* K( D+ X; t; _4 D) N
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. ) f5 q7 T# V6 }# [3 Q+ Z7 } $ R/ |( W$ k( z2 H/ H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 h, ~2 c0 o/ O( a. W
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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.% D- X3 O4 p1 G. N6 W4 g
! b5 v+ K5 Z* m$ \, n) l) s2 q8 U, Q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。 # i) V N. A9 O: u( e 3 m9 U1 `; ?( g4 D" {" o; X1 uWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. $ q2 v/ W( |( w3 r$ F' R% w% z& {' M% |' q$ w7 h; Y
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。$ S2 c$ k1 a- K# X0 I
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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.: d, f) r$ m7 h" A
$ n1 S# g; w& R6 x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。 0 l% j/ M7 j/ m2 j, L , a% o% U1 F8 U( wThe 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 w& p- F9 C) P" ]7 o4 a# l 2 q7 Z8 ?/ z% E0 q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。 2 |+ o# ?- u' ~' z/ F* C) y 6 U7 c$ T( T& L! `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. 5 k; m, n1 `( N3 w+ E$ i$ u
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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。 ) |$ ~' M: R" L I! f- P- Y7 e+ z& { i
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. w: [2 o; \% U( ?. x; W2 k! y: W3 u& b. x: u5 B: @2 h
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) {) V7 d5 w1 \! g7 o7 l' D
7 w J2 l2 I8 U; {3 Z6 BHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 S" p3 H# R, h( {" S: v% u5 J" t
; O5 R% i$ N4 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. "( x @1 l' A" m
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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。 . p0 D" c- U! |/ ?, T( i& \! d B& z+ d
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 `6 ^5 ^; Z/ P/ d/ Y4 Q! z
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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。 3 {( @+ `, E# M2 h n0 p - D) N7 T" n/ r4 OLife. 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: r2 P; o: V- y* y4 l, n$ n8 J' ~2 `- h6 j
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”。 / K! u: s; L1 k0 H; v2 B ! G# Q/ p/ u$ M& e$ H1 e7 C# h[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html