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：+ {# f2 n3 v: @2 ^! b
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生命就是小甜饼： + h: N) w+ f6 d! \1 KOne 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. , Z" e2 o$ W% i7 o6 y+ x- n/ a5 q3 N2 S2 O% [
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”。" B3 S6 X# ?5 m) ]- \7 ^
, B& \6 t/ b' y+ i6 e' tIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : o) n9 y) ~0 P |: R5 k* H' f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。) Y5 ?" h& A$ e0 A2 P0 O. ]7 U3 n
$ S- V: M. y$ n# S- _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. ~+ g& f2 }2 m. | ] + r1 f% P2 d4 K0 x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。 * v# W! x/ O8 F3 @# G 9 l& s; ^1 ?4 g6 K$ f7 BA 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., T: i3 M9 k6 N
5 n) U2 m6 F" `- u4 [/ @9 ]6 x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。' K" d E$ q0 f \# G
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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.7 ` X& T+ x1 ?- k3 e
# B1 P. l! q: R: Q: ]- l+ z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。* U1 r7 k8 P5 M0 e( _' }# T1 Q
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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.$ H: a5 X0 b) q3 R3 r
8 }6 c4 ]" J; K% S9 u! z+ e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。 0 u/ s' V' Y% y4 B& n7 @" j, U; C% x- |
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.# `$ W+ t, B% ~& I- j, L6 X
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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。 , v; w6 a0 Y% b0 f5 F 2 e6 b0 `' W# e% [: WYou 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. % D" Y, X# A+ z N% N3 g7 J2 K; S- k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。 % d3 n, P9 y; [% S$ q8 ?4 \+ F8 Y+ U) D8 h; r3 _/ Z
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 5 Y, [% t' ]$ N9 s: i( s* N& L2 |9 ?' N/ C, M) d: F
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 Y8 m2 A) W' D0 j5 N1 s$ C1 k% h7 B' c1 @6 E* D9 N2 F
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. % Z4 O& @7 \) l% c; B! e( Y! Y0 Z 6 Z2 A6 ^6 B' ]. U: S" B: a) A% f4 \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。 ) G0 n, b% o8 Q+ u' t4 L* |. t. K! g, e2 i' A( M1 W
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. "5 A2 f' Y; j3 S
. o6 q) W( u% }4 Y( XTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - m- ~4 ^+ d1 Q0 _! [4 t$ H ! }* T8 [: V4 S: _3 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。 ) [6 f/ i- r5 N, U" W: } 6 i! }) y* t& tLife. 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."* I8 U" v5 n1 W$ a2 p" K* }
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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”。 8 E8 Z9 \* i$ Y5 ?: Z8 \; D 8 q5 G8 v5 {: [2 S% G9 g[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html