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： 1 O5 B5 b) G! i% [) T( X/ Y5 F* H& Q2 x% j7 R
生命就是小甜饼：2 }- H& Y' T0 q7 Q' Z
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. " i4 |1 i+ K1 k" h; Y" D! t3 i( A) h; x, O0 [4 b8 K! \
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”。 2 e* }3 } S0 A) F/ E & w6 m% V, z3 zIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ G, j: ^/ v 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。 s( u/ j. G, p# D: x
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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.% U' Y4 O7 V* U+ _: C3 M
! k0 i6 X' Q" p, A( W+ M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。. ?( D8 ], q' j
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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.1 T9 Y7 B- V9 F, r! M( A, R# N
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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。. `8 a7 M# u- A' j
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 7 J7 N% e( h2 y, k6 J- V5 B" k) @" n1 d
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。 4 _2 E6 B0 N" P - e; V- ]/ B4 |" f( iBut 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.8 R5 T; Z e# L7 |6 v
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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 c j+ d% s, k ) `( d1 E3 Z, hThe 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.# z3 }$ A; C! j/ v( y
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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。0 F2 R' |4 [% A4 I9 _0 b6 T& Q1 w
2 I \8 D5 E) r! i5 R \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. 3 E5 p3 q8 `$ ], y' a! u v2 [6 f& @. v
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。- o+ r# }/ X: {" ~
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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.! D: R4 |! R4 @, M. }
; o# `6 N# s% g$ Q* `你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 4 c" R& P; D" N3 F/ a7 F1 U& ~+ T $ r( @7 [4 c+ r: s; A% [$ L3 Q2 j$ fHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. / Z. h) y% Y; |8 O x( x5 @# y6 F & g# `$ E8 j! p; N5 r/ l7 E" K$ B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。0 S4 V! d0 I' R. M8 O$ V( ~1 i
$ C: s9 _5 Q6 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. " / J4 T5 Q9 p. Z% H) |1 |0 N) ~/ G& F% P1 r3 \
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。4 p3 }" q# g5 }' a5 _
& {0 F% ^. `% S5 D& `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ' I' [: r/ c1 a1 Z6 } ' l4 k* l! c5 D! {. b“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 q6 o2 z W) R4 B
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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."5 A4 _; {# N3 F( h @
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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”。 0 b7 B( L7 f6 d6 F' J( I! V0 T5 t5 n' l$ A6 V2 {. Y: {
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