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：+ g1 p" M/ U+ P: _- C3 T2 I
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生命就是小甜饼：. E' f( R5 I5 u# j
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.) }" P' r; x, A4 p
! D2 R! ~- y# I0 C- E0 F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”。" u ]: z) z# b5 p6 D5 H/ H
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.: w: F& W9 |- M- g* C0 F1 i
' o2 b* x8 D1 w- Q/ K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。 ( m! a4 E5 H( m# y5 M& y - W" n/ r+ I. r) [7 R! WSome 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.8 `% ] R1 {$ C+ ?
% D: F: E, o+ Y) ^. ~& w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。 # |2 [# y3 ?% g# G/ P7 ]/ _; A3 }. O) Q
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. ! p% F* q3 b* G t3 x( N3 f3 }- n% X1 h
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。5 L$ K7 R. n" b* Z$ E
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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. + L# m* M1 g: @4 R) F- o) q0 j U$ I' Z( Q
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。4 K. Y5 P7 ?, j) N4 z( t
& I' e0 i8 ^: ]# @2 G3 i CBut 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.9 N( k7 l" l* X0 s
7 G8 a; s5 ]4 \( U9 ^8 }5 F( r/ { E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。 ) I. S* g; G' z& O7 T3 t" U1 B' V, J* R. A$ _
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.# w) a, N. Z+ \& k, r$ }2 s6 c
4 Y2 P: n7 l4 a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。! Z3 M# I) b" _9 }
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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. 5 n5 c) f9 q! k7 _7 S4 c
& z: q1 a" v1 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。 9 b. |5 h! W( q 5 _$ x9 c& f! J3 ?. oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 3 O% | u+ M" q9 O: Y& J8 | n1 p/ C" F+ Z0 y你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( @4 m$ W _7 ~ q4 _2 j - l0 F* ^# v! |1 THaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 5 ~5 z+ c. w: Q9 j3 W! h" q: S& A7 k6 `
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 ^9 i m1 y( U! {( A
; ^* l R, h2 z9 A% \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. " u6 S3 \1 {$ F: S% }
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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。 . n" \5 M% Q1 ^! U% `3 _ 6 Q- |# p! N9 aTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important." ^( f: ~. b/ U1 T/ u5 k
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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。. c, S) W: f+ i
8 s4 a% e/ e( U2 iLife. 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."( _- g7 h2 F/ L3 Q7 S
" F! h0 k* x9 C7 k- 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”。3 U1 {6 W( z( B9 B* w2 t
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