生命就是小甜品

173110223泮斐飞

大学英语美文摘录：

4 A* E! u  m+ `8 K$ w生命就是小甜饼：
9 M% t$ }' w# J6 |, d& AOne 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.
: S8 k* g3 h  V# ^" C7 V
$ @; r- ~* `) h3 [7 |& d4 ]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”。
! `# t% c; }, K  t9 }
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
7 p: i/ m7 T8 {5 @5 Y
2 A1 B6 B: S& W$ m/ G* {1 @4 u3 I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。

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.

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。

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.
, p- _' m& Z7 w
7 c& Z2 ~# W' j+ C' W" x+ 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。

; ]% q& f1 V+ i/ r7 S; dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.

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。

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.
* ^5 X8 U  u2 N  \5 }; I
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。
: q; D5 E. [4 A- c/ Z- \, Q- V
, o: B- Y' w' j5 b( h: m6 ?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.
% Z6 H' |9 x0 t4 q7 B
) V/ C& _& {- [1 R& o9 l( O! z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。
) ]5 R8 v1 ^3 P
3 g' h" d& D' F( O! k. L  MYou 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.
) [) p- J% d8 x1 t( p7 t
8 I- {: e. E  U7 p: T) ~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。
" H+ n8 P0 B! K2 U- P* S! g& Q
! ]6 I& p7 k- E8 e  |% Z$ oYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.

* c* \' O% {( _3 A: R你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。
; V6 u8 P! s: }4 g+ W
. ~5 I8 i& {7 d( wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
. h* g( r- L6 H3 \% u9 Q
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。

- J+ @, R8 O0 ?) F. m1 TFor 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. "

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。

2 U# o7 y: a4 Y8 e7 t) Z' {Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.

“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。
6 m. b' ~; l& d. E+ I& M1 P2 I8 d
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."
1 l- V3 M, }3 q6 ^7 |+ {
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”。

" ]1 b; J: s1 rhttps://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html