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生命就是小甜饼:# A; A9 K/ H) U7 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.
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y0 I6 c+ j% c) {- t( T* 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”。4 w& r8 O8 k2 P, l7 Z# |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.. u A* @2 L" Z: U
) {0 M1 j) z- `# ^7 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。
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, P! R# w0 U3 p4 z/ z; ?$ K) hSome 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.
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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。& @- p/ p! a2 X \7 C
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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.. ~' s+ m# o' @0 ?# D% K: s4 ?. q
i6 V* a! s) l5 W+ ]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。
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4 ^5 r: e$ b: ^" Z; M) N& AWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.+ U+ U# }+ v r" W. z5 {* a
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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。
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x2 r# q: W4 }* b0 LBut 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.
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' N4 d2 P- Q3 v" J* b" c' a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。5 J C/ b* R1 x& a: F
2 Z- F X* n9 P4 n" LThe 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.9 Y( a. z; R$ h$ c2 \
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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。9 |9 F% z- w; I1 u
$ O3 v! u3 {5 P) r8 KYou 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. 1 m) B5 h# C8 D6 J9 X8 Z. A7 R' u
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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。
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1 d* Y# R( B( z: a4 HYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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! |' E" v4 a% x& g你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。' O7 p& [9 O. b, L0 \
[6 Z+ Z) Z7 i. X$ K- rHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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。/ }0 x3 W3 d4 m( k
8 R# N* J3 |1 c2 u" q- SFor 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. "
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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。
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! c& J0 ~" H5 D$ H1 o9 x! _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important./ s/ d. s4 I B9 t: N4 n) m/ f# _
; x# b! l& _1 q0 b/ }: `“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。5 s' e# d0 E$ ~- H \9 G! d% A
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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."
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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”。
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