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： 7 x) U4 n+ w4 i( h9 M& i& g0 ] 8 |5 g* C5 v3 C& I生命就是小甜饼：" ^, B8 K& L$ m. J0 Y- b; W1 |$ Q( ?
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. " F3 x/ y6 O6 ^0 r+ O6 C; C4 p3 o, r2 N7 L4 ^! M6 T
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”。 5 Z% I3 S: V3 ^* ]" A& i3 E " O* q& h/ A8 d: HIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.3 j# c7 J( Z9 v+ C% A5 [+ J8 A
1 @; `) d# c* r; Q7 {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。 8 x/ ?' I9 f; p3 m1 o$ F4 s7 `, f: G3 S- V' R5 \: N s( ~) {
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. 6 w; u' t# _+ l- E* M0 w, x% g! C' `$ ?
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。0 q7 k* D# W H9 B, y
2 p# b! p7 f9 Q5 {& [" z/ ~, HA 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. C: f: X O- H: b+ W Y: l. U4 q3 W1 T/ O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。$ }% \7 | P. z1 c0 p! w& N& G
d* @8 O' U! \* u8 A4 C& lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / I! Y7 E) ^$ x, m4 ?' q+ M" G5 d. d' A: Y4 X" l
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。: E2 r4 H% |! _1 B, a1 f) K
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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. : R# `" V% ]$ C/ ` 3 @) |- I% |# I2 n3 E. A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。 # A% b& @. e! R) H1 Q6 ^8 ] * M! n* O8 a: h; x6 a( XThe 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 w" w% h8 ?2 I# v7 y8 B- G ) ?' I# \5 R% X9 k8 H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。) i; c/ b; Q3 B' {- g' k, G9 _3 \
" M9 t: K Q& V7 l- 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. 1 W/ S9 v- A( L5 ^) y2 q5 n! @/ e# A
! j4 j$ M" U* m, U9 ]! a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。8 v1 ^/ S! R1 _% o) e
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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. 8 x0 Q7 V. a- j" k# e" `. V: p' }3 d* n& p& y% S
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。; E& F/ q0 d( ~1 p- U
: A# x- O# h! r3 b6 [/ I: L$ ~3 xHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 3 e B7 L! U3 P$ s8 g, [ : Z1 W4 p9 ~- U0 g: J, h. x- 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。4 r6 E9 p1 G3 F( k `
( p' U5 X( U. T x; bFor 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. "6 k/ ^8 b1 B: ?9 G+ r
: R; \) B) j: X/ K/ b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。3 v B- c3 X1 v: Y! @5 w2 b
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.; X) j6 k: e' e" x
6 a2 f7 U( E, P“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。0 W7 o% [5 t6 l2 E' A. |
1 ]' J/ W8 C% @9 |! C1 Z7 nLife. 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."9 D, X# D* G9 H- x/ x0 j$ ?0 A
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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”。: U+ @; d* f% |& M1 z
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