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 t O! I4 I+ |/ b" `8 H* x - f/ a7 \% o" _* e生命就是小甜饼： f) Y! ~" Z8 q/ Z) U/ S/ Q0 u( 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. * R1 p. B% G% K4 B* v8 |6 T4 }
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”。1 N% A" m% ^, T, s2 g7 V2 Y& N
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % y! b9 W' E$ g. l" L3 a 9 v6 k+ r, y( d# k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。 h0 l* o6 V/ K. H. @. h0 b2 v" U, [
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. , @8 H* f. Q2 X, _0 d {! G' A2 J9 l6 n% N$ t8 @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。 - w9 z8 i# ^) \# B3 S7 H6 b$ r9 ~% e# j6 B4 r
A 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. 6 W& A$ T$ E+ g; n3 D* I- v5 _/ v% k6 V* U" {
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。, d' e4 B. I3 }7 O5 u: N, A
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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. 3 M1 _/ g' m* ~ _ + ], T3 o" C+ P/ c6 }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。+ A2 i) q& J2 k
; ^/ `9 T' K0 d+ ]# ?) N) S. mBut 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. ' s1 ?7 t' a+ u& ?2 M% ` / g# x! z+ x( c/ `4 m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。 # m( @ t `' s* k+ A" b5 w( Y* R; D" A% K! }" k
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. / ^: }( H' _" I# }- W. s1 k! M6 N7 i4 }( i- M" [
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。7 M7 {- M9 `0 P
4 m8 ~: y2 ?* i9 [* c, D w6 ~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. ' O* i6 H/ N* x5 U$ f# Y
0 ]8 j: `" d. T5 ^( d# i5 `) U6 R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。 / T9 |. y4 h3 E3 W) W) A" p& Z& s; n+ k0 t1 B
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- k; \+ w6 W# [# X6 _! d* \
$ ]8 o' G6 B' L1 v* V1 z% C7 C你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 k1 {4 D. K4 ^/ x: O3 V- f- g% W" A2 Y# J* i8 @3 B
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 B T" F' y3 l S( e
% \7 r6 `1 Z, M: E) 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。 1 ~$ k2 @1 c# `8 Y7 Z 4 X/ B" \0 `7 a1 l1 f8 f, uFor 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. " 9 Q: H5 O) x1 o6 h # r, @! i7 K# T2 o# M1 _/ A1 `1 k, V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。7 W+ O1 z# ^0 ?7 r/ U/ A
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.' A3 v0 F9 u6 \. r! u. J8 @% s& r5 q8 Q
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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。 , D# m* @5 F# l! f. } % e6 Y( R' U9 O2 T. x+ b3 o- KLife. 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." 2 V7 ~3 j% s7 d- m& F9 z' R; x4 v2 {. D% i# J
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”。 9 F5 F- o ?+ q 1 `. u$ N5 z: {9 @0 {[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html