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： # {2 j1 M( U: ]% J+ G/ g5 _; v, t1 z% w/ u8 R/ H$ F
生命就是小甜饼： + z ^5 H# `; H" B9 EOne 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. 4 b, P$ Y. ]9 ^; T5 J' b3 P5 h+ r
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”。 " r' h2 k" i5 y" D! \2 a* w& j % I9 e; |) M. r: M5 f" T nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 P$ d1 o$ P" e1 M) u: e Q
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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。, l* V* C1 o, A/ `
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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. " |! V- M% ~- q: G/ u) C& ^9 f# L [8 ?$ ~
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。 / k* D* L" e3 N/ r$ R! n; [3 d 7 k2 Z/ }% L2 G4 Y8 I: e+ zA 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 P7 ?0 M x3 p
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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。+ V9 y7 u2 [/ I+ u, m
& Z7 N B- _) o3 mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' o* w2 _" E, N7 L$ h
# C1 f( C+ g, s1 ?' P( _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。 0 B5 j7 s, x! F) y* v! q x 7 o- Q6 ~' p% Q; F. ~5 T9 K* wBut 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. ; y. U# _) [% f% \( ?# [* X0 [, ` 4 a7 X3 ~9 K# ?8 ~* r" T3 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。 : V+ J& {# S9 q* V$ m" `0 e0 B2 x" ~+ k1 @, g
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. 1 j j6 `& ]5 T2 v: I' X% `( b, q! \2 A) E# R* _/ @
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。 ; ^1 n) E/ m, l) s- Q$ U% q; x" A5 J- c6 H( Q
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. % H% m. ]# M0 Z0 C) N4 W7 e 3 W0 X4 ~" ]+ u! f3 [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。 / N. E1 D% M; N% f 8 \& f3 \; q' k. X8 V9 H% cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.; Q, Y+ \7 m; y% Y* t) D
) A0 m7 u) k/ i你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。, L$ F I1 l, [ Q1 }/ L' W/ i, c
- l! s9 }3 ~. F. W# XHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. q# u. b5 K$ v" v9 `' } . f. ]0 O0 }' d8 U; q% S8 G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。 # M7 j$ @$ k5 T* T6 y% T$ i 8 r. B+ W/ A+ K. M/ x# zFor 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. "% j/ P' R6 q* R- z
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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。/ [) o: l' g; E! l u
|. w. K3 X" s4 KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ R1 p: G( S3 y) @2 ^/ @
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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 L: X$ g! ~1 M* d- W _+ g; O6 |( bLife. 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."6 {9 F" r. H5 q/ l: _4 @
5 m# p" u! _) o8 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”。 5 Q# `7 G- f7 x0 t3 m , w7 M9 |/ L j# x9 p[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html