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： 5 O3 N, q* V# c" d ; |/ _, m1 y# [& g) l% B生命就是小甜饼： 0 K$ Z3 K; ?! S1 `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.! u: B, @% c7 Z3 T% j2 b
, e) ^2 }& A9 c, l7 ^" M7 C& F! w2 k5 T
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”。4 q1 t1 B, D# J
0 f' r" l: E& ^' H
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( F R0 u, J* P [' S# E3 |
* T7 Q. C% J, P( ~; z; I2 R/ m8 o% v
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 b: i4 _; I- R2 @
7 ]' `9 s6 Y8 B
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. , {& Q3 K4 O: O 2 S }* n4 _! Y9 e8 Z& b4 m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。 * K3 ]4 X" b* M+ M1 Z6 s0 @; |5 `1 F! c. I/ ^
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. 2 v9 i/ [- @2 n3 E. G& D1 Y8 [# n7 @/ O, j0 z p& p
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。 0 p8 {; U O2 Z( {+ X) }5 l6 m. F* v7 W& Q- ?
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.9 j8 Z# u7 }1 |/ Z! o
7 @2 I; a+ g+ ~2 r; `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。 . f# ~3 B0 [# h6 N) C& h1 i a( T7 O. O6 I
But 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. & q) B9 I0 B1 `+ u! s8 ^ / r+ p1 H* ^/ U+ x3 V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。" L7 h, G. M$ ?8 j
8 d% r1 p* h9 S
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. ) |) A. W9 T/ E/ M" z% d# L0 ^; E' F* Y: j; n' {
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。$ P3 B5 ]3 X7 r7 n, y3 K0 z
$ [( n, D0 R6 a, M: o% c7 k* {) O/ cYou 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. . P6 X, T$ I! _ M7 `: g1 m* l ?7 } / W4 d X* |' z# E) d" 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。. x, b# r; w8 w! }, c
6 ^0 N- w$ @+ b+ o9 w, D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.& e2 c* G- W* o) v
* M! b5 T# Z; t& q* J: r
你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& E1 t* {( l) h+ @) k. @
) t0 s4 n d% T6 {; [Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., |1 O/ y; d1 [: C& P7 b
C/ ]4 I1 t. I: t7 e( _+ Z5 s
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。# M& I$ [. L9 O* }
F' r! N! J/ i' T
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. "$ f, P6 z; | I, P/ P) b/ j5 Q
* D7 r0 H3 H! `& Q: 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。, P: W! z* V* e( w) W- K- ]" h
' W$ z+ N! Z& H; LTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. 1 i$ [. g$ A1 C& `+ \$ F, A) G0 g8 _! `. V! j2 O- Z
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ; T& b9 x( L8 r! v }& P * v6 y7 R' e* U. p/ A6 v& m4 `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."7 E6 O' I( h d! u
" K+ y/ \* x$ k
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”。. _0 t/ O0 M% S+ j: d. J