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： b1 Y: g- C x5 j4 n& \( c9 W 3 U3 l. q U/ ?* S) [生命就是小甜饼：/ k/ ?8 X2 p0 P) J
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. ; C, T8 E& c6 d8 p% d, Y1 b$ a) [ r1 F% I& L2 G
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”。! n* T0 @/ X& a. e
- O% d8 [3 L' g0 Z- d) @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.; A7 H" b, }: Q! e" O
% q# b; t+ f% X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。0 r$ ]7 H- P! t3 v1 w
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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.0 T1 I" i6 T& G/ f. N+ U& x+ h
+ G: {$ ?, }7 Y8 n( YA 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. ! ^8 Z: [0 f/ N. O9 h4 S( W2 e6 V3 i3 M
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。. ]% |2 I+ n! ~0 x% }
! V6 W, A! ?+ r9 Q9 X' l5 FWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. ^& U% v+ ?. f( u% q
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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。5 m$ @0 `& _; _9 m' F- R
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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 i7 p' y3 |& Y, B; ? : V g L" S: i, T4 ]4 x9 V5 T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。8 }2 L* D. v, m2 w3 F# A b6 t
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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. 2 k4 y4 H( u- U. _7 ?4 d. I: O( p- ^" J0 S) U1 G8 C
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。 # |, ?3 O# T, k) n8 q) S; e - p& L4 a: E0 v; SYou 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. $ m, N+ H# q; M% K: N
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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。0 y" n$ [* q- N, M4 G! e
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. g1 z7 N8 T2 E. |% W: E
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) ~6 t, h1 H' w6 W) T' Z
( I8 P% I1 D! l* |. RHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' j+ f* H- Z2 `$ i6 ]
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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。, j2 j3 _( G! Q4 t
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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. "6 C' D& s$ [. P& E: |% P4 |
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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。 4 c/ ?8 P- ]5 G- e( @( C0 Y2 V- p3 E+ w! ]6 U. O' C
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ! \/ B. X! P1 T! T5 f3 D9 }1 q$ ?1 N0 ]! j P
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, |+ @; Z1 `( R0 t: z: ]! D" T
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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.": N* t, L/ B5 \: y4 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”。 " T9 E- M( \0 m+ r3 _2 Z) f # g" j7 B) l! _[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html