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： ) n1 W5 t4 \# F3 B; v. U3 |! O" Y6 i" l0 N/ c4 J0 _& L9 Q
生命就是小甜饼：; a8 x+ e" T2 Y) o
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. 0 r# P+ _9 }1 g5 h! C% g 0 a8 k: L5 \8 f& E& F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”。+ F% D9 y8 f/ \* d: r6 d; C
' L3 x* p$ z! _$ M0 X" hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing." z3 m* ~) z4 Z4 U2 ^4 ?/ ?, d7 B
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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 d1 y1 ~3 x! I6 H$ U) f# x% i! E$ w
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.6 \/ v; y0 a( K; v0 X" \9 h# m
2 K3 U8 b, R) Q2 }3 G0 {. r9 _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. $ Y& b% o5 i0 ?3 p5 w4 t6 ~; t6 P0 y# m+ _
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。 1 _- ~* q, e0 }* n- r 3 I& {) o$ ~3 a) |$ M# r! lWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 6 G4 I( ]$ j7 J( h$ ~# @! e , ~4 m& D+ c3 a0 x- J$ y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 M" P7 c& d2 }; t4 H/ d. H- r
+ p) N; `/ p$ @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. ; W" b+ }' z+ T7 W3 ^% [ 0 c: {8 y. ?8 S: F! [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。% y9 S/ z" u9 W: r
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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. d/ Q' G4 }: Y- G" x% u. Y7 s0 z# D
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。 & l. E/ _7 o/ k : S) c5 ~8 A. W" oYou 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. ) ^) x' u5 Q" h0 K8 Q6 D; m
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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。 ! e' K+ Z4 T* g; J& E0 N+ ^ - y; {0 n w$ q; `You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 }3 x1 t3 l K8 Q
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 , P/ k* g. x/ u } * K K8 y% q7 ^. U: P1 L& SHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 6 @* x: C& b$ }( N5 v; a % @& r+ s1 S8 v5 k' e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" M) j* v( E6 ~/ g
: @6 P9 G3 V: z) ZFor 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. "/ N/ g [* k; M P$ i, e. g7 ]
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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。1 }6 L% D+ A& w) S- [' A [" w
1 n2 @- ^8 o/ o/ U' e2 D" xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. A+ b1 O9 q# y( o( z6 P/ a" p0 ?9 f+ S9 C" g. X$ w# 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。1 y6 Z; f# S2 |- ~2 u
7 g: ~8 N2 W4 S B# Z! QLife. 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." ; _2 S: z: `) k4 A) V/ z5 V/ J# x: \, L
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”。" h* _! e3 |7 \4 ^
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