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：, N# U7 e0 N& p# U. y/ S$ w
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生命就是小甜饼：2 u1 K1 e6 \$ M2 P5 l
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.! \5 l! n( H( m5 I" w. }+ D
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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”。3 \4 R8 s/ x& r
9 d0 F8 D; _4 L% u6 o6 ]If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. - ]0 k- y9 N3 G& v6 Y" Z3 |9 p / j5 j& ?, D( O% J3 b: I9 d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。! G3 m; Z' C( p1 u, N4 z
- T5 _+ y- i, j1 Y, DSome 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. 1 o% a N) w7 C( t: e4 C( t' W 5 a0 w. t! C8 ~- r4 W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。 2 } j( X( `8 W8 a9 w! O8 \! S7 b; Z+ t& R/ L6 ?
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. 4 {3 x& t- G7 j# `/ b e! c* r C9 f 2 a3 a- ^8 m9 o+ D- J: P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。 & z2 y4 U# a: M& q4 m7 y) O, O- v' c( S5 p6 W
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.# z4 q6 q n$ t7 j% ?5 c
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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。8 l9 O! z; u9 X$ c8 n+ `: x$ ~* H6 d6 `
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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.& f; l+ {2 |3 O6 t
t5 j5 s$ s% B9 Q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 D4 x& R+ }9 s$ l8 ]4 j
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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.! Z& ]8 V$ L/ F+ ]; U& z2 L' u6 T
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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。 ( R g0 W g5 U. m5 }$ l' G8 o0 G/ u0 x" C3 ?" p3 N9 o
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. " e$ G* }6 C: b' T) J6 A ]! G9 O+ T9 _- M9 `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。 5 a: U* I0 T' a! z- L( E( E. T/ h' C o) [& n
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. : p9 @( }) O) p- n6 s5 f% G: u# [+ |2 r3 C6 g- D- R$ I/ `
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。% r# Y \3 Y( d" U4 G; x) X
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. ) s# y/ n4 v! S; L( l- d2 l5 X) M - T: z) `" c5 F" ^1 V9 L% f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。7 W( U! F. Y3 r
" P, _7 S" U3 ^, ^" g3 R/ XFor 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. "5 Q5 b1 ]$ @- N( E
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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。 0 F$ t i+ ~) D% J" S 5 [7 R& R3 B: m6 d Q. ITwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.2 r3 f. E$ p5 R: b# f
2 l8 X- f6 E( P# m* [' w& 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。# A9 r. \! [9 U+ o+ U
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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." ( a( U$ U R! U# Y# @& S& \& U' ^, q1 j h4 J
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”。 9 X& H9 v; {' p0 b& h, Z, |+ j/ G* k! h8 P+ x G4 t. p
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