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：+ Q* \; C: K6 F
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生命就是小甜饼： ! m7 ~0 X, |* B5 vOne 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. " D& \; e" S) U& u0 D2 S+ {( |& I/ I* [! v
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”。 8 H; J1 [) [! }9 S* r) E# W6 u7 X, |* P- C0 ^& r2 X6 K1 h$ V$ p0 Z
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; b; y6 ^0 S3 H& c0 M0 h* _ | E , e8 z( E 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。 7 H, g1 B. P- D t9 c' P9 a+ E3 G9 ]" R, C$ X+ h+ O
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.' C5 S5 f+ y/ B: v5 O" M
9 ~7 i3 u m. @7 q9 R! B: q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。 6 W/ b0 S4 F6 l* [6 s8 g / C% T) T% ^: p- R/ z$ @# aA 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.; k. v+ \5 g& ~# r: a6 y
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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。5 a/ L/ Z8 P1 j% x' e
4 L' n& n/ @& z7 jWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.% _7 p) W! i3 B. D0 X# f4 [) r( r
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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。3 d" Y, M& g* [% k( @: R
* O O7 D7 q! U6 ^8 v6 nBut 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.$ i8 c8 {& z6 \( a# O! S
* T) e* k1 B: t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。 $ D$ W% T% G+ [: c8 T8 Z: {! q& q; I+ b/ ]6 o( w1 u: 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.7 }2 K+ |3 U: g' v( 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。 1 Z- w2 L7 a V7 p+ W2 J & N& f" X: y' j& W1 e0 ^' C" oYou 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. $ ]' [5 G+ T0 ]% J0 w# ~* l8 I
: Y$ T. r" e% Z( o( _You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 8 p- ^- t5 Y" T( E- K; D+ N, s+ V1 W9 F e) I9 Z
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 % l t# t r/ b8 F! a # R. |4 d4 [9 V1 q# }$ e3 [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) p. ^5 E3 m% m3 k ( \5 v3 b9 Z: C- O- S7 B- q9 O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。8 Y- V& |% w8 I+ [' i! K/ t+ p
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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. "7 s* z* S0 x6 G6 T1 `0 l
$ g3 K- D2 Z' i% l* I' H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。6 d# k( s0 b" f2 b+ `! I1 g
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 f0 X* S3 c/ ?8 [
8 H$ x) s" ^+ R! u“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。" U2 B1 x! f2 f9 a! H4 F2 D" v8 k
- u- |- d8 s; GLife. 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." - q( P& W5 m) t- {" _" x# r" S- Z4 L
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”。 ' `" Y/ o3 C& L, J$ B: G: t1 h7 K5 s4 k8 @& m' A" H+ G9 o v
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