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： , _" x3 Z5 Q) L8 T; Z8 n4 K# e9 ]* p B9 o
生命就是小甜饼： - P/ o/ g# K! V2 v' d$ N2 HOne 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. f8 [% U# ]8 b/ q9 l# x. o7 e5 V, Q4 p
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”。 2 W4 }1 | q+ T+ Z7 ]+ G, H) K- l( p7 E% |; J$ L0 N
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 O% R( o! B9 }% j6 i) H. m
+ R7 s a, ]9 I3 L% a3 ?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。% B$ Q# B; {: r. S5 w6 N3 I
6 ~& Z% m' `9 v8 b, I5 }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." T% @% s: G7 O
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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。% G m% m5 a$ A* Q( w1 a3 ^
5 X& O7 t$ @$ K/ V8 j* h0 aA 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.0 ^4 R3 a. G* O# n! v( Z
3 J1 @' `" x$ ]7 b9 z% L. |1 A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。* t3 ] T9 [% ?
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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. * {0 i5 X$ t6 q. p $ |6 P/ p. y n" H: M4 g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。' T# T6 v* Q4 a$ X
) x; w( r4 A# O# ]! E* UBut 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. 2 I6 N" \8 f$ ?- o& z J; C7 h9 D4 p1 Z) v, a- a
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。" n5 C7 T4 q. u5 W
+ N. u0 r7 Q% o2 nThe 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.% A- f2 `+ o% W
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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。. ~, H* E5 f( x
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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. f& `; K! |# W! U8 P& u4 z0 p* l + q) N) R6 n7 n! C$ u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。 - O! `# }# X0 q* w3 `1 K7 V$ L: G( b! j+ G N
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. , n, x" R6 {$ u1 o7 q$ U+ m& u/ n- {9 g& G0 a
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 f+ n! s" {5 ^0 e2 s; F& s 0 G+ `) Z5 N$ I5 U! y+ VHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.+ N, ?' ^( Y% f% N
- X3 B( s" @7 f5 L# T1 H0 M1 a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。; R8 }( n6 L7 k' B) |4 z
8 s( d: q& W; z1 O' W+ EFor 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. "- C, D& B/ r& D8 [3 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。) b8 S% F* n' W0 ?! y1 ?
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 \6 t8 L0 }# |1 U8 Q+ z # i4 O" S. v- t' j8 t* m& S s“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" D1 L' D6 R& L( |9 G8 Z1 N, z
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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."- u( P" q9 ~, P) T( Y% @( @! ?" |
; F( I4 z; P9 D' M: v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”。 ! s0 f2 v' ?2 r8 x9 ~ b- O. V; {" A/ H6 r6 u$ M; t[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html