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： " d1 |: `' \ R7 b0 W9 D7 o$ H# B5 i: D5 s' A5 O
生命就是小甜饼：9 s, D; n( t. V
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. + m3 p. \& W; k) [5 }' [ : I1 `9 D" j' M, ~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 a( p) g0 p0 N2 C( o
8 v5 Q# x" K5 t& MIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : |+ B* C/ H$ J8 ` 2 U. T& ^5 n1 s9 G/ t% S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。 ) d+ g( s: L0 @ a; t/ B# J- g0 u: `7 g; ^2 v8 y7 y- A
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. % F. X3 U/ d {$ b2 T/ Y& B . x+ c* s* O6 N0 z6 ^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。5 _9 p! p6 [! b) G
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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.3 _. p k [3 y1 h, Q" B! U7 ^ J
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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。, b, y/ }# Y+ l6 G) j: u
4 g: F6 s7 G6 }; b5 P# CWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 8 F( T! _8 K& D$ U( _4 y W7 B! z- l+ V
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。 # i5 y5 R# R% |! ^. U7 _7 l) t) s* S9 H# Q/ A8 U& x$ d( I
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. i3 q { A! ?+ @
5 E4 ]6 D0 V. P1 g8 `! R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。 % q7 N- n# }8 R% l0 {+ l5 X% j+ I 6 ?- z8 ?9 s/ JThe 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. 9 M; b* ^) p) _( }7 S7 v3 L# u * R! n: n/ }' k+ B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。( }6 ]4 [) S( J0 b# {6 M( A
1 T% v6 p, a2 H* Z3 GYou 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. 1 B% F+ j3 Y8 ~4 P. x4 \2 j
1 P' K) a1 w& U& t- i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: f5 n3 l5 t/ M# _% y1 p* z3 N
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 ]/ ?* F2 W2 @
7 s g/ B8 D. }2 W0 E5 Y* r你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 + ^8 o% ?& G/ X 0 @, T6 \( @( B2 l/ h% sHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.) C# a0 Z: n" _8 G
& @! Z* R" Y! H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 X* v! H# ~, O" u" A% g' v- A* m! l7 H
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. " . c8 u2 e5 e. z, Y; k7 c* v 1 u3 c0 G. Y3 m( @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。2 M( c! C& @% w6 M8 G
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; c5 G( v) X2 W/ 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。+ O: m/ q1 Q3 b& o! e3 }
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Life. 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."1 N" ]9 W5 y4 @7 \+ b" u
7 g8 ~5 v& t, Q, K z" e3 B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”。0 D; X; R9 H U, q- m5 S
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