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" |4 c# S3 }4 s( {& `, L8 Q, h- ]4 k- X2 z' X8 |% ^9 g \
生命就是小甜饼： " K% F4 u3 ~$ e7 b/ sOne 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. , v$ m9 K/ q4 N2 K1 e' w( W 8 s. v) [3 m9 [& T- s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”。 2 v3 X, n4 e. B& {7 z% ]! ^% N3 B) x$ o/ j- B# E8 A; V
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. / r/ k2 O1 A6 f1 a: n! E0 G$ R' {0 E% z# o5 i
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。2 y9 U2 M4 h9 D$ K+ ?- b
1 E* `) b# S" y( n$ SSome 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.2 y% X' H4 |8 p
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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。 8 ^' Y; ^4 P2 b1 D9 ~ ( T* J% g2 `% V) d: w# z, xA 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. & m* B% x( H, u, N( ]' G5 |' F. M- Z1 y8 c/ U# J
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。: w+ r" ^( m6 s, b+ f# p3 t, z
& Q& v8 F3 E3 a. w* UWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 }/ i8 |' Q; d( ^/ s f' R% a5 G: c4 X
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。 9 V/ E0 V; o4 R( A' k . @5 R7 W! i# L4 iBut 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. 3 S8 G5 [9 e4 L. i2 ~( X( G1 D6 ?6 h9 q: R* m4 c1 c* o
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。 0 y! S+ a) J+ p7 N2 J5 t5 P6 o) }: j! k1 t
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.' `2 J5 O" i; o `8 h) w$ S, [
1 Y( E& @$ e& \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。 5 i. w( A; d* F! K6 |2 t6 x 9 { I& X3 d4 m# p, k4 UYou 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. 6 U2 e! ]. ?+ B$ h5 Y/ z7 e
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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。1 W# V9 t4 V7 }, r$ d- a, L
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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. ; d# S* }- O6 K. O" u7 W u 2 F k$ P/ E# @! j4 r3 g/ o你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 ( |6 K" R9 J! N7 F; o ( X9 z a) m' UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. _$ o' E% H' e2 k
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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。 - z0 Z& j" a5 a2 b: v % d5 i/ _" r) KFor 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. " 2 f) l) T# I8 ]3 @ ?, o& w ! } `: L1 z% S6 X9 {1 c- S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。# j; R( ~7 U; d: Q d
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 9 p+ ]8 P" w2 d( M" ]" O6 a/ X8 U* ?( v5 e
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。# Q- Z' X u. ?( k- y; E0 r! N! K
8 p& O: Z* J( V% x6 ALife. 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." G+ b2 [ C5 M8 D' K9 s H% K" E8 o/ ?2 y. v& T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 m# X( x) B5 s" r
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