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： 3 O* D6 ^$ h# c3 z* D* W( D* ~4 j / s3 n1 ~0 M- S v: T$ }( \5 [生命就是小甜饼：8 _4 z0 Y( u- ^
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.% s. q$ q$ z) B' G3 k
& o* S1 A# `, m {" 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”。 ( b6 m/ H: o6 G+ O7 q% G9 o8 M, f" I
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! [6 x8 F$ L$ R& F
' R2 E- Y0 M* J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。8 @0 z$ H: ]: N% U0 @" o+ @; M
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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.8 ~+ i5 t% a3 W) @6 y1 v1 R
1 r! t8 q% k: _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。: b- N: y# J1 k: k# A' q( r
1 L: q9 W1 ~$ n/ _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. W( S7 h. o9 C. S3 G+ b& j8 u
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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。6 _* [7 k; f* b) H
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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. / G7 [6 x/ F- ~" q ' F" L" G1 U6 h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。1 r5 z7 N! ?8 m9 L0 N$ g5 i( ?
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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.* j% ?8 o8 h) a7 q0 s; X) B
& H& @' t9 f ]) s. @6 k8 U8 |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. 6 q8 O8 G8 n* V9 r; S/ Z6 w9 l* x* X4 R4 \' n! f% O5 c
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。 - N7 X$ G$ g/ p. S! T% @( J4 p6 H$ I9 S2 v
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. ! n- W, s/ K+ g- C7 S6 T
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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。! |$ }) o5 w" R N: t. U
8 o+ M9 V! E7 s5 ]0 C5 eYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 \3 g! g5 y7 q# c1 t) ^
9 j. W6 Q7 I3 v6 L0 W* t你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 6 t/ K2 r/ b. n5 {: }$ n# l ( M3 G5 X/ {1 n- f1 w4 zHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.& I7 N4 e% W" ]4 O2 X
" l, T& \0 ?5 | |0 {+ C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+ w1 [( g$ _3 |/ l ] " `# i6 h" f) r+ Y6 u/ eFor 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. " 6 C1 |# c) Q4 n) i6 ^ 5 _1 H7 a$ ^, l0 {# u( r1 i% B2 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。 9 Q" [$ u- _& v, \ , T" s( L! k O: ?, ?Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. " l" i+ h' N& L# K, R * u5 U! k7 I2 g3 P% x# ]“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 K9 Z8 X5 @; u+ p6 o. Q3 B
% T+ i! V5 f" i' V3 BLife. 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."& A, A0 D* {3 `8 ~; z
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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”。5 G; G: g# y, d8 ~6 W& H; b
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