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：- b% K1 c) e1 U, f4 f# M9 p
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生命就是小甜饼：8 }/ {- T& a' 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. , d! y" S& }# }" E9 N1 l% u1 Q$ T& B
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”。6 c" j6 C: K% j8 h) E5 C6 o
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.5 a0 G0 x$ g: J& D# E
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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。 " Q/ M" P3 i9 s8 p4 D1 n0 E5 R3 Z
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.) v5 y# k3 \4 Y' a5 k1 {
+ W+ K5 M; g5 E 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.' O+ f$ g; Z. o% n! \9 A$ k
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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。 o% i" V* y- _& X4 D# v
% f2 v- C* o6 F' h( TWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., U/ _& e- E4 ^& u5 W& t% K+ v
$ ^% ]! D" w! ?1 {8 i* O e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。 ' s6 ]/ e8 E/ N2 o2 D) ^" I( H2 c [1 \7 J+ {
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.9 k3 V, L% _1 B. S0 }; t* b4 a
! }2 h# E, I. p+ }+ `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。" C6 q( k/ _' 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. / a$ I: B6 f9 v7 M) S. a" B7 G) u/ c- k! [6 ^1 V
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。 5 ?( ^0 H t; G. M5 D* f9 D! y( Z" E( K
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. + [( M2 ^7 r' j# T+ `& t& q8 c 2 `& ^5 a0 K; G/ x5 J* e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。3 z6 m2 D/ ^# ^$ p& I6 y% p
+ l# I/ \ W! C/ _) D0 F$ }4 HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- n4 r0 |9 M- k8 Q8 D
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 h9 T6 F0 e% @8 h4 u; y3 n
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.3 W! I. t g: {* l t) R
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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。 1 l! S4 [0 [' p4 j. o& P* k ; [% b% ?! P- y% u: z1 l, t7 NFor 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. "9 f b+ m1 J' k7 m& [8 K
, }; v3 E8 t/ U3 o6 H+ gTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 6 n: x# ?9 P: D9 w- s* N& ^- Q % h* T* V, q, o6 |9 p$ u3 \% I* w“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 : z; F4 P- e; g8 G! Q . e' x( u& t) v2 xLife. 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." : D9 V( g( [0 K o; N3 {* V c, p! a t/ h
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”。$ v1 o' \# q% @8 A
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