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： ! r t# h$ }( Q # s4 m$ @/ D) o8 M% m生命就是小甜饼：( d& \: P, _+ @9 a
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. 7 T; c! w7 P/ O3 g1 E# [( v( K: V! 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”。" j6 D% p. I- M
8 L* i, d1 u/ t1 G3 ?If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.9 [# R' x. U0 W! K
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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。 ) [7 g2 z7 L0 e6 p3 X6 I% n2 g7 |- s3 O# ~0 q( o6 E H& S2 q3 r
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.! L. @* [! r2 Y, u* ?2 f5 _
7 L1 R: T1 w8 Z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。0 d$ c( ?8 N2 l' z& V. F
& ?! k- C8 g6 K# c" 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.2 s9 m; T$ M! o+ m* {
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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。 ! f* j& a. F1 ~7 A" w% ^7 Z0 p4 a( Z7 e, d4 U" G. {. \0 e
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % J8 d' ~$ Y, B : e3 V+ f- [1 k2 ~ _* b) q# N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。$ q! @! T1 _; [; B
. s/ _2 c! p, w& W jBut 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. . f2 U6 }3 p) j# Y 0 S" x/ ?; Y( t! w! {4 V5 |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。. j) B2 M( ]4 j% Z% f: t
6 J7 z6 O1 v t( cThe 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.' a" [, _- D7 `( x- P6 Y
0 {' x8 G& a) Z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。' H/ g' B7 @3 z* j8 n; t
# x( }1 k+ J7 h: y0 C* jYou 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. 8 P* o8 M f% L9 k( s ) `* z/ } f8 r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 l: F- c/ ^% j7 C+ @5 D2 D5 j( S4 N
* ]$ K/ M& r" W4 y+ R. Z( hYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. # @) i" u( S! S0 J' u u; U, e8 W5 F$ g6 z7 X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 o# n8 @- N' S: _0 M2 Y' z" Z) t3 I, A! x; C! ^7 }
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.4 n; `# V; s; w( U4 @
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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。 * N: Q# i p- [5 ^/ U$ T2 b4 z" A/ u; g: b! F. c" ~$ r
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. " ( w. }/ ~9 W; c2 b8 Z/ `- A5 m/ f2 D5 {0 A& B
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。( }; r+ M1 A% X: c2 {" R
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 E; y) M e* S% @* L2 _1 Q
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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。) j; }& i5 K3 r4 L: B: V7 F
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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."2 G6 m! T% u$ x* `% y5 V7 H! V( B
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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”。+ \! Y" d% g; q g2 m
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