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： , [$ f" ?3 i* O8 P% F % t+ f) L+ L+ P" w生命就是小甜饼： $ D( y! \- Q# q m0 N" F. \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.4 {5 J7 [4 B7 @
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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”。 9 Y. M7 P* {# y ; g! V5 A4 k0 \* y( P6 O; R: J3 nIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. . b5 i1 ^0 S8 T7 ~! r, ]+ ^0 ~+ Q- D7 K' 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。1 o! ]. \+ F1 F& `. _, T0 M5 j
6 f6 G4 \! E; `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. / q2 O( {' b) ^# z% Z0 G 3 L! ~5 t, M3 U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。& R6 e: j0 m: C
3 d2 t% m @) L; aA 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. 1 R5 [ a8 m: y% B 7 n% R( {% E* F, E2 g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。 / [; T5 C" K. t. ?7 c R8 y0 ]5 {8 N- V5 z* `* B/ r. M
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. X0 K4 ?: }. N. R' h
/ Y2 A2 u. ?; i% ?# M5 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。& p& H$ @6 N8 E5 J8 @ H
( S [3 b1 B, [" j- ?6 SBut 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. . h1 B2 R8 }- g! @$ q * r0 r' I5 t7 \2 x6 {( j& d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。( _, a5 N$ C( C) x
5 A1 T( P; {8 i9 `9 j9 w, tThe 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.+ z( H" ]1 L9 V3 y
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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。 & m& |( P1 b( |: T$ ?! U' [0 s / I" K* _% p1 X1 p5 NYou 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. 0 N# _7 F2 D y: X4 \/ B
0 N3 O, m( q' g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。, x' j: x" r9 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.: S1 B4 q9 T0 N+ b3 I* b
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。3 n4 Q" d2 E' r# c5 u4 I
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.: @/ {, {+ _8 Y' c
/ ~0 v8 B( j' T- x9 O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。 * ?: f: r# o _2 b7 n4 V" v' S9 S
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: Z6 L, W( o4 J9 y
) V) o, x. W! N4 y* Z \/ ^- h2 W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+ ^: x3 w . S6 t9 k/ l! w1 t* OTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 N% x; p5 V" d3 m- J% |; A
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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。, U+ {9 Y- y4 i. N/ D% 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."5 G8 P0 n I) G0 V% _4 L6 B7 z8 M4 f
5 L5 l0 O# v% `0 ]- G8 Y$ \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”。+ J4 F8 d' P& y, z9 ?