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： h) @4 |! p. ~/ V ) f0 D! F, |. {9 e) M4 b生命就是小甜饼：1 t% E, y1 T" Y
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.0 x# [- {# X6 @& X4 ~5 t
6 [& F5 k7 K( Z9 M2 jIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. " M; c5 X2 g+ o3 S# S! Q3 e/ {% Z" K; a/ h, D
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。# ?) q3 c5 @5 `. A+ w4 v
; ?) ?& q+ ]* |0 r K% QSome 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. 9 J A: _; G+ v o% M% m% N( p 0 U, @7 K7 e. L* ^ d/ v9 t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。! L; v9 L- v/ c. y1 d
; r m* |; \4 W, ?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. 2 E* s3 Z) N5 _ ~2 F( k& [: K* k% c" w9 q
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。 & d9 }' Q. o$ _( x$ X* o6 K m' H1 N
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 w5 `; Z, v8 L( l8 N$ ?
# U8 j6 H8 K: T* U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。 5 I: x, b% W0 I$ B & ~3 V$ e: o$ h2 _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.) V: z5 c" g- o0 S8 r* R
3 \$ e7 Z3 `/ 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。. p+ V7 h: X) {4 L$ q) ]# ?9 }( F
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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.& o0 S o3 |& p, ~3 t( X
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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。 2 n% p1 e( w; ~5 f/ { ( H2 b2 \& U. _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. 2 s5 h) p/ J; @7 }: Y q3 `& J1 k: u 3 Y2 Q2 n D2 w s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 u1 B) E5 h; u; ^& P1 c" [' v/ O! V
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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. " I1 f6 e+ p! u3 S . g9 I! w& r0 K0 _/ k$ X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 + f! y+ Y: l- q; {4 l* F$ F" w* p! {' j2 n, }
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 h, A& p7 r2 M; ?1 a. j3 _3 C$ h* t- I- J, G
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 f2 ]0 C; {; b X& S+ }
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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. "9 Z# {" E; O: M
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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。/ v6 o" ]" ^. M( N# r- ]
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 7 ~4 t) e& G, s% \6 k 1 ]2 z- r$ Z; J6 ?$ s4 Z" f( Q“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。6 t6 w8 H0 D: J( d$ T3 q# h
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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." , |) w& x2 L, L5 I; n/ b _, s _1 w" I
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”。 6 o, Q% t8 P4 V- Y' g: \( i' z4 j# _5 v% e6 E% x& H9 Z! c
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