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： 1 ~7 B8 O$ v/ b; f6 w' l! }( ?+ k: z& m+ H. L3 U! K& V' C
生命就是小甜饼：1 m9 V" l5 J+ U" N+ A1 g
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. ' A* b7 M' q1 k7 T7 S9 _/ Y 2 Z3 O3 o% n7 D- m2 ^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”。7 d& t- h) u0 t2 }" {/ V: P3 D
) q" y3 C1 R) k. U8 ^1 O) YIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 q7 i! D% z; D- p
, P* }$ ^- P6 K7 L! E. g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。 5 O% o* `- P+ Z4 E7 M1 D. f * D1 Z6 I- W0 e. d9 G- S7 sSome 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. 9 [. Z/ N. M! i9 v * y2 \9 |9 ?' m3 Y' ]/ C, I4 H4 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。 5 @2 |- h7 d3 O8 N 2 b o0 p6 Q5 Z1 u N# JA 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. 4 B( M5 M' @( g& ~+ K 9 n* L* l' C2 F$ W% Q/ c( M2 D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。 , m# p/ s. H. e4 B1 E7 J8 U1 p N0 s- \3 J
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 [1 }+ H/ G9 d
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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。- w, [% x" F# z; {8 @
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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. # R" p+ g' q$ r8 N3 G2 m+ I $ P' z& Y% p0 o6 V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。6 g3 T% b5 |% X. E- L: A/ W F
% a0 W T; C. \. U5 Y% kThe 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. ! m& [7 v0 K( n Q& L; |& A% w/ ?9 {% O: l
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。 / t3 p' Q& {$ s* z9 L 5 w% P3 X0 k6 E1 G3 i& dYou 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. r6 l! g. [( ^) E) S$ h H" o) G; g/ A2 ?, G5 _! j
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。 1 ~" H; o9 b7 x* ]4 ]2 y/ `! a 5 ]! j7 c. \% jYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.+ B' k$ O( L) A
; E3 X4 L b8 i, l8 N' \你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % `0 w) t" L. ^2 S; s; I; f) w ! ]5 S: f5 M5 V5 \) ?# o$ y) FHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. , {9 M, A, M* Y" H 9 c& L8 ?" S9 g! f0 j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。 ; Q" Q Z$ ~! B* m* V4 g: Y- x/ G K/ `
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. " ; O' r3 A) i8 s: K' w+ D& u5 F7 S- a 0 d' S! X( w6 u6 ^- P, p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。 `% R' T2 K- `5 n( X0 A/ y @
( L. c7 I) D6 _5 ]Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 ?8 p& y" K0 H; J. p1 {
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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 g' W; G9 d" S6 \8 i& V: M: q2 M+ I6 j/ p# y
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.") F5 ]+ X: q# K g1 ~
* v7 s& p& Q3 Y" E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”。 - f% N% ~/ D4 H1 J8 C5 u2 Z2 P+ o ( H$ w- T' C' X) H' G7 ~[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html