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： 4 X9 |% n( d( j0 D. d! b7 E( A) ]$ C- E% | a' c
生命就是小甜饼：* p) O7 V$ J# i: W, b* d& ~
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. T1 ]4 |/ H! I0 z% x+ Q/ x
1 f* p( |- w9 x; Q( ~7 H. T0 FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.% ]6 g' W6 i( C
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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。" ?, C/ t; x4 H {+ a; h- p' h6 J2 Q
0 W3 I6 y/ P- j% [0 ESome 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. ! W1 R' G! x- i6 i- z3 j. k- c$ s4 M) 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。 " P+ }: ^8 C4 l7 X3 ~( [. S" \0 c3 _$ _( W' e& P! ]) P. Q
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.3 U0 n6 Z) D* u& [0 s6 v- ]
& q v) i- V& Q& V% p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。( L% n0 C: k# c7 I
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. - ^1 n9 x) {9 |8 F! w9 b- L) S 9 G; n1 V: i! n! c9 i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。 + r; v. S' D* K0 W2 g9 B9 t- U+ o, d* {; s0 P% T
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. 0 \2 r, I, Z5 y8 f/ s/ ]- L- ]4 a- I( k6 v; @* R# M+ p
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。! n9 Z+ ]5 {6 g1 l1 ~" P" f
' K# j( \7 [4 uThe 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./ E# }$ V" d, A7 u3 ?) K
0 W. D; ?% E8 V7 x0 E# e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 t2 e# H {7 E( {0 P, G/ R$ i
: l# K0 P+ h6 TYou 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. ) u8 W3 V* a4 d7 n3 J + \: @' u, L7 q% G [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。 5 F7 [" |- x* u% s& F7 q- M8 g: b2 A2 e+ k
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( t' N: L( {( a, t* v7 g 1 d& O" s! ? p# H# V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。( Q, g2 N6 s3 v
+ O+ F, D Q, C, Z) LHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ W6 J8 p9 Q1 ` 1 h; c3 Z' n! z" Y# l6 y& }4 \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。: o8 C. R$ v* H1 `7 A
9 |% y$ S8 `- v- n0 c0 Z( X$ M/ u! ZFor 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. "9 j9 L: S" n2 z
3 S9 _% b9 |' P. |' @. `3 L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。 9 U* }9 T8 A9 F) {2 C- g) L' A, g: _. Q' f/ A
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 ?1 L; N( ~! ~
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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。 6 N8 c) T# G& f& q7 ~7 h% U$ P0 J' }* c
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."4 _/ }3 Z! t" C9 F3 H0 _: N
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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”。 $ q6 B6 Y5 u' E; T5 e6 u! S& |' l ; `2 G$ E' w4 E[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html