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： ! {2 H7 j5 `% S3 o- r) Z9 q' \' c9 \; s# B4 ~/ ]5 b& F7 ?) A
生命就是小甜饼： # d2 H, o" h3 D9 P& eOne 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. $ ~% P# I* O# m- ?+ F E2 G+ s+ x* z" V) N8 A6 ]- A% w
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”。, Y0 ^9 U7 P# L( k* [+ c+ n
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.2 \- b! Y$ w; d# ]# X1 o
) e, M7 T) y& d6 r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; F# \9 ?0 f0 x9 Y
- W, ^: n* w' y; V: SSome 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.4 ^. ?, b5 ]+ B2 ~: v# T# i
+ Z2 r/ I f$ @+ [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. [, G9 g1 t! \7 W) i% ]
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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。 ( S7 j; A# C/ i, R( M' |7 |) }8 | / A! m7 O( Z4 @/ O8 z! UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 c* t+ j0 ^' o
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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。 & \( ]% }1 `) x0 k+ d7 r' u3 L8 H8 w9 I% f3 a& h
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. + K0 h+ f. e) D- m+ w3 {1 Q ) v6 K& u9 Y/ g/ w& |" S, o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。 6 r7 X, ?, c1 r1 ~& t. d' Z7 v - o# M0 i. [; L$ Z3 S. V5 D0 v" JThe 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. ' J+ G+ V5 {$ P' k5 C$ g- V) j3 b' c" K: A3 E
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。& P& X4 q0 D& M4 J# x3 N
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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. ! N. l2 T: }) u& I8 C' E E: f
! m; n8 r! `/ c- j9 f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。 0 f$ I! R; t) ?3 O" a* Y/ F3 w( o( h, W6 g
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 1 ~) k) d% {, B1 W! y0 |- G! b7 N2 s9 M7 @
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。: k* H6 @( M' J; \
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: }, o \2 E b2 v
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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。 4 P2 G% T2 U& L" C8 \ F% P2 z. T! N) X5 m; R$ _5 L
For 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 f6 V4 v; Y; E / k; c5 o# d6 I: S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 O w+ J% y2 _; D: g( P$ l# h- K ( i' }) J0 I& a1 r! T' PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.7 p' ~ y: C! P% \$ y4 X
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。7 @( P+ K3 ^7 b4 u1 }! V
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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."; }, h" J, G& e- M; _
9 ?# s0 r5 _ v* p* a+ F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”。 " l3 Z! L1 a, B" f- Q) ]. A f7 N' @8 c# Q/ C
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