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： / ?" p1 s+ u' f, R" Z* P, O7 f N$ \+ `& S0 z
生命就是小甜饼：* x3 o; K- |' o
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. p; U" z R+ A" t3 e* r9 z
8 P# V ]% t' Q& h, N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”。 u+ ~6 E4 D5 z5 ?2 M# R" m
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.- T" c% |# Q3 X6 Z9 f" b
6 y9 v% Z; B; }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。 K e4 E ^+ \* u . \; ^0 H7 j9 w) }; WSome 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. % w; y/ b6 W6 G4 p, D- f/ o6 | 5 x$ v% _, {$ z: v1 a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。/ N4 b, R( e b
( z6 Y% a V; G+ O$ ?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.1 [9 n" `0 W$ t, Y& i) c' s& T
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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。! ? \& ?; N: G7 e2 m
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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.) E- S! N" Y8 R d! [5 V
: [1 N" L5 R1 H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。- c/ z, r5 u3 f b
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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.0 r3 O. X, h3 c, X( p
6 @' c) j- b# J" Z1 f. Y1 U5 C; tThe 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.. F! w" ^5 e3 k0 A
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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。- n. E+ l" Z9 X4 }
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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. - B( @! G) X$ E
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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。/ j+ y, @: `* m
# N" x1 ^ |/ D/ S# MYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% G5 S6 v0 C2 d, M
6 S- b1 j; Z6 u0 T1 Z8 M4 j7 v0 K" t0 C你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ) h& i; P: k, E+ p! t. }( \3 t M* U0 r X6 P
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & q9 V, X6 N* K4 U K' q C7 [5 A/ `, _, X
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。3 \1 r7 Z6 J W) i2 }: G( W
3 ^+ R# J+ b M0 I1 U/ I) [* _0 l$ rFor 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. " * r* C) [6 I2 y% Y . V6 P E1 W- i5 d1 q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。 % A6 s" @2 C0 K8 T " N( Z& I* Z1 r, j: cTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& v3 E: B# M) U) W1 w/ U7 q
% R' O! T! V. p$ }* E& ULife. 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." ; D* g$ {5 U8 Q: a# e/ ]/ ? 9 f5 _6 [, s3 y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”。 7 ? G, M! k( m' c; N3 X' i & i0 [" Q! o |! }[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html