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： * f: Z2 c5 E, b" p* f6 A$ B5 u5 f! M" P
生命就是小甜饼： . d" Z, y/ K% aOne 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. ! G Y# \1 |$ f# q6 M6 x2 d- h( i3 M, M9 p. e
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”。 # P2 b& ~2 R$ b* J( x 9 A p# g4 b ~) t. _0 JIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % b; w, g5 C+ G0 L 0 b) Q% l$ `) e% O6 t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。4 }$ `. X! u+ R4 n* F0 L
+ R0 q2 o' X7 J5 } 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.) r% ], }, e: Z1 _/ L) d8 Q
1 C3 W& o% h M8 }3 L) x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。+ S( m/ O' Y7 B3 v! ]* W
1 i8 M6 u) V, g8 j. uA 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. ( w5 }1 C, q1 T- l/ S ] 5 `8 @, B# m+ [9 S, r% A# G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。3 S( N- j+ p% S e0 u+ P! l$ v
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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. " R6 s# `% K1 _ & X6 m5 G7 j$ d6 l3 ?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。 9 h& R( f, d+ d4 v' b& |" Z; \7 g; V7 D6 T& s
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. 4 v: @# l) k) J3 `3 z8 E7 j. M8 M5 @$ ~. B3 R( n0 C
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。 / c7 Q) }1 t$ Z2 e: C$ n- g* `0 `& ?+ i+ D
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./ H; ?4 P; @; E1 K8 q9 Z
' @5 N; T0 d; |- u( p' O9 j2 n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。 ! D6 \6 m" P* P4 @& J) V0 ~( e* S
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. + h; Z) b" u7 \% K; |
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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。 * E; `# |$ K7 E$ x) O9 p& k( t. A 1 `# e, Y5 `$ B4 Z" r% P! lYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.7 C* D* n+ F8 K
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 X) N2 O: R" j& o! k. p0 h) S- `9 E. }
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.5 p+ R# g: S+ o4 a4 K7 Z: L
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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。 & v! b- T& n1 W8 j4 b9 ^4 c 3 j. W! {. e* Y+ eFor 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. " 4 Y9 P# p% b( o% ^4 [! K& f) R" s& [ h0 R
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。 / u. r( F" C- Q6 O' Y% L: u / e# Q4 W3 ^2 M# ]- Z# GTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 4 B9 a* @- x3 V ) D, U- D5 U1 f8 C! u- u& k“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。- i# {4 R3 f+ x
( S; R; Q0 q# rLife. 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 i: q5 j. G0 R1 i/ H/ D# z! c. k