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： ( d$ w/ f, `$ s/ H6 U# H; G" }' W
生命就是小甜饼： 3 E E- [' C3 h# ]6 u* @3 xOne 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. / a; m8 v0 e3 c8 |7 c ! ^8 r C; ]: f) f& s2 g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”。! I5 ]8 d! h0 m2 @$ T' w, s# n
4 Z- `2 U: f U( \. h2 t3 xIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % z/ A2 V; q/ n* W( Z1 @& z6 }/ e t( v( N; R# n
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。 & ~# l/ i1 o- K% z4 ]) [4 q6 x* W' Y m+ P+ H0 j8 F
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.- n( R3 h2 Y n3 B/ N" J
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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。 6 U9 H9 q f% R! ?( y3 ?& z" B V
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.7 @; k; h8 Z4 a* F
& i- I( k# Z P6 e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。 ! p4 E c4 U3 A 6 | l2 o; t* f! g, YWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., R3 x9 M$ K" K* R# k. |
) v, ~+ h0 H% T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。 2 T$ L+ H8 L$ o$ U3 d. u" n' l . f, {" _; N6 r* P L% }% q, u- L5 xBut 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.5 C; `1 `5 | b, h
8 O$ p z2 r/ [5 K& V, e/ \8 LThe 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." c& ]2 L/ y( z w* A7 i
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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。1 k. P* Y& o7 A: F; o) `8 o) h
7 b, t1 i5 b( a/ 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. , ?. l8 w# _7 ^6 F5 U3 y
3 ~, ?3 c' [1 j" F0 A8 A5 v; ~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。8 u2 s$ g, F) y3 G/ q5 e
& c3 u, M* G" KYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. $ E; X, S* u! t, d' \$ }) N* u 9 r6 ?( y( w8 W0 ?你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ! A5 e- _9 K: H. K1 M& ^" {, c' Z + U( f, C9 l/ J+ b& C0 c }! ZHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- l; W2 o9 K0 G, T0 t' }' ]- w
2 n8 T- b8 U7 ?1 Y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。 ' Q/ }6 W0 A3 v0 q* E4 N : l; z% m( s* ^" e9 {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. " + x% ]" i/ B3 s; O P% H" X 8 P& r" a5 T. b9 M$ ` Z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。 . z" o( G; v0 ` + E# u ]2 g. P% Z0 x! O9 v( b% V( PTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 3 I& f F) a+ k- x# i 9 F8 Z/ n+ N/ v6 S5 C“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 & G# a, @# x6 F' d * }" l9 S% ^8 J6 {8 x- p' a/ 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."- L6 {. K& B3 H! i0 a
. j8 r) y, s( N) E. S( V( Z: k+ U Z+ m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”。 & J8 Z# s9 u( X0 N! I$ s8 S5 p- n7 e m8 ` {% D) B
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