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： 8 `8 `+ |+ A. g! d; v( m: w W' q' d' k5 ^* L! k7 ~4 }5 y生命就是小甜饼：/ g/ J( E+ y% G% Y
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.' F) v) @1 Z& I1 p$ x
% l) U! W+ r t6 O; ]) l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- R- ^, }0 m5 f8 S7 h - }, ^- C$ O4 S1 t+ J2 V) ^: FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.' x3 ]& _+ v8 O6 p [) J2 @, [) E
# [8 Z& L/ Q9 U) h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。2 R* m/ x5 q- g, s( r* M
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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.' y L, T& z/ H6 ~4 a Y
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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。 . F( z! y1 \; f4 H, @8 u7 u 4 e) l) R4 z9 `! @5 g- PA 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./ U1 m% Y5 a8 o; N3 e) A
! E9 W+ P6 G, _2 [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。7 i3 s1 J. r) @( [
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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.: z, [$ Y/ l R* C
! [6 c$ O- x, W: ^0 f/ C/ \8 N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。 9 f# }) X% u+ ?' Z+ i* N8 q8 F" f9 c
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.& P7 ~& ^0 A/ Y% J
, i$ j& Q1 B3 b4 K" Q2 ^" y9 Z2 k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。 4 o9 {" e7 Q S. s' d/ F8 R6 {6 ]% G4 @3 U h8 d
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.) _; V, c* M( y. m% O
* U1 g/ k" K% o4 h6 |6 D# @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. : t, h) X8 K; M$ T/ _' L 3 j, j2 h8 {# r+ H. X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。 , ], @9 d# Y% |4 i 5 b, U) u7 H! k. Y# @9 w" \ q2 lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( [- L- v) y5 u0 ~8 Q; ~* t3 m5 d; S. [& L' W1 g
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。! D% v0 s, s8 h
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 M0 `& J7 i# O$ u / N8 Z. @" L3 k8 K A: t* i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。8 H9 |) J, J% r! X {' K
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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. "; Z2 ~/ B+ x6 j8 r) g
) _' K2 U9 F# I& T1 z! x5 |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。 + _# p. v, d) Z, e5 ]2 J, b2 a, z0 L2 e- l" g. Y/ A, L# ?
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . J0 }3 i9 e: Q g0 v$ ~6 q; q6 b) B9 w% H“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 7 i5 h/ \ z+ m3 t/ c0 \) I8 \2 ^8 _9 v
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." 3 P3 S) S7 i% U) k' p" Z" l( i; x8 K! }2 v9 ~3 I
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”。 . S3 Y9 F# G* c D$ Z ~/ g* i5 a0 h 8 } C6 x/ K: W& I[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html