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： 9 ?8 z( Q/ N2 X# `. }, a5 l: b. M1 W & C6 I. T* C5 y* z/ V( v6 s生命就是小甜饼：: s) B7 z7 [1 ~ a" c* a
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." ]. r% k5 |3 Z0 i2 d. y
4 G$ S- r, V; |2 K) p; Z: c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”。, A' M. w: [, T6 O( s, n3 h% \4 e
& s1 M. [$ s/ Q# X# q% hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; C9 f. i5 m/ c2 J' Z9 Q" u
k1 q) }! X. ^6 l; n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。! f4 h( ]+ G. {' K
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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.+ l- Q: R: f' B! }
. C$ d" r$ V/ K. e2 |" N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。 ; c; b+ i( o( P+ @8 E4 T, D( [& h
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.: \& i V$ d+ f1 B. ?2 E7 a, D% Q
# T( V5 K2 V( C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。 y! a7 f) |2 @/ b( ~# W+ H/ w# U2 [) I0 S( h7 z" M: z
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. & v# }+ M7 n- N' Y: I0 O; Z" J- Q" a5 [+ T( H# A4 {
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。3 o3 w/ Z/ n9 o
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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.5 @" q2 v% g- w( d9 g6 W
+ z4 G! ?1 d% x4 u' _1 [/ ^) c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。 * c! Z3 j2 G$ x4 Y8 g- n; r' R) m7 \# g8 h+ ?1 J
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. ; S% {1 x# F% V) x: M$ n* h+ T, ^2 y. l' Y% y6 g) n8 }$ k
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。 + W5 C/ w- |! [4 u* W/ ?& H& V! K1 c- H% T% C. o
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. ( _, ?$ E% z! V& i & ^( b% I" j" t3 U% R( 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。 * s- U( v* D2 {5 B _9 s7 L4 H( Y1 @- c
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ K& _) W' ^( n x" }2 F
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) K; l8 A) K- H9 e+ c/ \1 B8 r
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 8 {) l4 F5 p; [3 l; h - d' U1 e& Y- H; D% t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 S, ?' n% |2 q5 V6 l4 h1 h* q2 _! ?( [1 Z8 s1 s' o
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. " - h- x7 E3 y3 Y$ o% I2 n / W9 S. t) Q3 v) k8 r7 \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 \: h- u8 {( k & B- v# g O! B; g- J8 _" @' N- `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 f& I' O* z, I8 \- k % i1 d1 j& h9 e) E' G+ X1 [“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 $ Q% A* ~6 h b8 O3 E' G6 O ; D8 _# m3 c, Z" ~ R+ ~. dLife. 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.": H2 K' i2 z) X, {3 `" o, J \
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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”。 + R9 m8 o; A+ F4 L$ S3 i. w 7 [" M8 W8 p1 s( | D; |[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html