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： 6 t9 o3 i" ?& j8 R5 T7 Y$ {4 i/ ?* h5 E1 l1 k' m3 {
生命就是小甜饼：0 t, p6 u! Q8 {( D6 R! O9 |* D& s
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. 3 _6 B+ K/ y; _/ u6 E 2 M' y% o( \# Q5 z6 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”。* ]7 R* d0 V' g+ o" }$ F7 G- |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 5 X' M0 D) X8 v/ ~$ K$ |" l0 e- V! z% r6 q" O
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。 ! n' d0 Q7 Z( `7 l2 w* W' x$ I3 r# Z6 Q8 M) 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.. T4 R9 g4 F+ Z* D r& \
% R! E; _) Q1 { s. Q* ^$ b- W7 }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.& g) v! w7 R. K7 a
% |* p, }; K' F! |: m$ h$ tWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 5 E, X' @4 ~& G# K4 W7 O' B Y9 A1 A6 U0 w
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。 # j! m0 }/ l; }! ?4 A7 B2 U. u( O! }1 k! a& [( f
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. # T4 Y; N2 o+ ~) K3 G. T A+ n/ p' j" F9 R$ ]% }2 N7 n9 B
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。 1 _+ E5 ]% J+ G8 G; X E8 H5 i1 q& m1 A$ L) \1 nThe 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., |1 S. K O L L
0 X/ v. Z5 w6 H( P+ S* C8 |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。 ; t1 v. _, X0 k+ F8 Z& b. q+ X( V; B6 W
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. ! R4 Z0 R; e0 G( h - [ f- |5 j2 Y2 f" C$ t* I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。 6 Q& t! v, e% l8 ~) F7 a- ~2 _& S% T9 |
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.1 ?' S1 j0 Z$ J8 o
0 G( ~8 d8 [& r0 h你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. ^! j; L( k5 p- O, }
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 2 h' h! A1 w, b+ o& w/ d. x- j- m1 Y1 @
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。 & [ Y8 i, V8 k' C9 V2 }2 D; f, B# C6 V5 c* }. i
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. " 0 v. t: q0 {" I+ c9 Z 2 C: ]: J8 \ Q2 q- P* e4 O- Z# x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。 1 c3 m6 w2 c# f3 x, ]% F% N- F Z3 q3 s7 j" @& h: E7 ^
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important., G1 X* s' g1 u3 F) {: g0 P
6 v. |& ?2 m' g ]/ 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。 + {, M5 ~" }7 l# }8 L! B$ a# O0 ]) J) ]; P
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." 6 o4 T7 Z, K @; N! S " C: _' p5 W: ~( _) o0 W$ {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”。 / K- g8 [ f" u/ |2 B! `3 I# C0 |5 d' ]% c' @& x* I1 P8 D
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