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：4 A' c3 n0 R! i9 Q9 i
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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. 7 v! Y1 o$ E, e; N+ J! h) j* v- ~! J& \ P& |
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”。 4 A. P6 }% B. _, |( m# w' f# x1 D. ~* g% x: v
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 N! c4 j7 Y6 P& j
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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。: }7 }- F4 ~' v' q, m' }5 m. q
& `1 n h5 n# J# g% BSome 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.5 d& o, z @0 v) b
/ c" M: q, r# k3 H. R9 C6 E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。1 k b5 \" }- b7 R- i
9 ]' |# e% j* m) ^- I0 YA 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. o+ q! a6 ]# ~, J# c# l/ B2 f
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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。 6 H$ w9 e" Z0 c- d! q8 X4 \ - t/ |# \+ m8 R M' H4 }7 `When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& p" h, Z# V) t6 q U8 v- t
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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。 - i- i# i7 c( B. ^. y0 n4 b ) p+ y7 B& I0 ^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: K" A. S# q* o/ i) V c" n+ u: O3 E% |3 {; y/ w Q% w' s
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。2 _7 t, V: R: ?- t6 P4 E
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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.% F3 l) x5 w E
7 ?' a' S- L- I V- F0 K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。 ! z- F# M [ ] ) o; ^$ H! V5 t/ n; z# V3 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. 3 s- Z" c/ O& P' I: G 4 t/ p" c b+ s9 H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。 % Y I: H+ w5 I# O & { q) x3 Z I$ s: [( lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. . [3 I$ f& l7 u4 X8 H5 b l5 F4 O6 T! V' q v
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。2 M+ X% S/ A# j1 a
- \! b% G, h9 ^: c" n; aHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. & S: F4 U7 Y5 M $ I+ u! G6 t& N( N6 s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。 6 l+ C% G% y5 I z1 ^ $ {6 u' E9 F# m$ Z& A+ H+ wFor 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. " - B4 k" `# _7 Y% m % f) ]; h8 G! D4 l# _4 @& v- 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。 : b1 Z( a$ N! E5 ?- x- F$ o% K$ F. j
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 g- W+ I0 w# P3 A7 V, V# `- s
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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。1 A# v: i1 c3 K# W$ @! G
8 ?/ a8 x/ K. T( sLife. 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."7 b* z' z: x* D: f+ ^
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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”。 1 F: a; w4 O0 g3 J* J# n! g' \" s! u8 L
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