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： % A& ?( s, [: `. c" R5 i/ U8 o: B9 p3 P5 s& h W
生命就是小甜饼：2 l- W: O' l6 u5 @* y: ~' ^# {8 W
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. / X! v. X6 j: f6 P5 s: k! c4 f9 z6 u; t2 l% K7 K8 B+ 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”。6 M/ y( S7 e% _0 S
- u. f2 O3 I QIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. i/ \4 l+ b/ z1 Q* g
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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。1 Y/ o4 i! A5 y3 N1 U# {9 s
+ V- R: r3 h# J( B" @, cSome 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.. p, d* b6 r9 N! k
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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。 : H: g, j9 B4 V8 B3 e5 F2 M; s& q9 D; z
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.: o6 U+ t* V! q1 v( p* v" p% B
) W) R' C# F- z7 h3 v% Y6 g) Q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。 7 T9 E% W6 ~% a # d% a; c$ Z1 Z( \, a8 ]When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. " A% M" X+ ~& I# o* Y3 h # h) `* [/ T: 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。 9 c! b5 ^: H; \& q, G N8 E. T) o! u# ?, F& M5 W% f
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.8 q0 E5 F. y5 \2 J4 p7 {1 p$ Y+ X% F
( ~# Z- B- ]% v( `8 v. j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。 . Z" Q+ v! l1 ~( B6 N: S5 k' h & }0 v4 j0 q3 s( K9 i& y. Q+ z& ]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.* S, {. R0 w& u- A* P( I3 \
4 | G9 B! X; j7 ?3 V% W! B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* o8 E; D2 Q8 Y* o5 R2 J4 J& G" a: C2 _7 E1 z) Q# F
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. 9 r. e) g' c' T+ d/ 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。 8 _7 a; O9 j% p3 u" L7 f& M8 ?( g0 k3 O' n3 ^. s
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 O% m6 ^7 S+ X* N! f- D. X
C1 b9 c4 r3 W" R3 V你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 \3 [0 `& R) I7 ^9 Z5 d" j " Y5 G2 y' ]8 h! Q/ k9 a9 EHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. $ J6 {4 I# w$ U, V9 c / M: I+ S+ {+ L% a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。: y' x) C2 K1 x) J3 m2 f
: k U$ W& W 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. "$ ~. r% P% T1 L6 ^
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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。 / P4 Z8 T5 M4 I# j8 W0 H' {/ h# |; ?+ a1 ]& t: r
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. ) G1 ~. R; ]) J. r$ f2 b/ u0 K3 b: \3 ?/ _5 n9 b5 G* D
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 * D3 F, w& s7 q/ y! p* P8 m& s/ z7 e; N3 u8 I7 C1 g% u
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 n$ ?8 p( l8 ]+ t4 y% s, ^# V5 {
- s; h1 ?+ V( r; D6 r9 |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”。2 ]+ I Q' j! `1 _' `9 X' k
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