深圳大学 赖小琪
昨天在饭堂吃饭遇见张凯，便坐下来一起用餐。谈笑间，我说起了这周的期中考把我折磨死了，经常开夜车，生活有点失调，脸上都长了几颗暗疮。他笑着对我说：“小琪，你不觉得有时候小病是福吗？俗话说：痘疹粒粒皆是宝。脸上的每一颗痘都很珍贵啊，因为它一方面把你身体的毒素排出来了，一方面暗示了你的健康可能有问题了，要你注意休息和饮食！”我听了怔了一下，然后忍不住开怀大笑：“说得对啊！”
Yesterday I encountered my friend Zhang Kai in the canteen, and we enjoyed the meal together. During the pleasant chat, I groaned that the mid-term exams tormented me to death and I had to burn midnight oil, which resulted in my unbalanced and irregular life that caused some awful acne on my cheeks. He smiled to me and said, “Xiaoqi, don’t you think that sometimes it is a blessing to have some small ailments? There is a popular saying that every acne is a treasure. Therefore, every acne on your face is very precious, for on the one hand, it can help pump out the toxic materials from your body, and on the other hand, it signals your potential health problems and indicates you should pay enough attention to your rest and diet.” Hearing his words, I felt shocked an speechless for a moment, then uncontrollable laughed gleefully, “You are absolutely right!”
其实生活中很多事情，或许乍一看不是件好事，其实是a blessing in disguise（表面看似不好实则是好事），关键在于你从哪个角度看问题。以前常听老人们说“小病是福”，当时不以为然，心里纳闷着怎么有病还是福呢？这个问题一直困扰了我很久，直到这个暑假，我才恍然大悟。
In fact, there are many things in our life which seem not favorable at the first glance, but turn out to be a blessing in disguise. The most significant point is the angle from which you value the problem. In the past, I often heard the elderly say that a small ailment is actually a blessing. At that time, I kept skeptical of it and puzzled why a disease would ever mean blessing. This puzzlement had been haunting my mind for a long time and not until this summer vacation did I get its point!
这个暑假很不幸我的喉咙由于某种原因变得嘶哑了，由急性咽炎变成慢性咽炎，久治不愈。这可把我折磨死了。平时的晨读习惯被迫暂停差不多两个月，更惨的是不能像以前那样畅所欲言地练习口语，对我这种平时说起话就来滔滔不绝的人来讲实在是一种精神折磨。
This summer vacation, unfortunately, I came down with hoarseness due to certain reason. Worse still, it worsened gradually from acute pharyngitis to chronic one. I was tortured to death. I had to give up my morning-reading habit for nearly two months. What is worse, I could no longer practice oral English freely as I used to, which was a mental suffering to me who could not stop talking once opening my mouth.
然而喉咙有事，身体状况却好起来了。由于喉咙不行，杜绝了一切热气油炸的食物（这些以前是我的最爱），辣的一点也不敢沾，多吃水果和天天喝蜂蜜水。日子久了，脸上的暗疮居然奇迹般地慢慢消失了，还创下了两个多月不长一粒暗疮的历史纪录（想当年脸上是“满目疮痍”）。 现在喉咙渐渐好了，可是我依然不敢掉以轻心，仍然非常注意饮食，时不时喝一下凉茶，人的精神状态也更胜从前。
However, while my throat was under the weather, my overall health condition was bettering. Due to hoarseness, I have to abandon all the fried, oily and spicy food. Meantime, I must eat more fruits and drink honey every day. With time passing by, the acne on my cheeks was declining miraculously, and I broke my own history record of not having a single spot of acne for more than two months! Now my throat is recovering little by little, but I still keep alert of my diet and now and again I will drink some herbal soup to keep me vigorous than ever.
现在我终于明白了“小病是福”的真正含义。一个人有了小病了，比如说一些不会致命的慢性病，如咽喉炎，鼻炎等，自然会比一般的人特别注重饮食和休息，吃不健康的食品的机率大大低于一般的人，所以他们虽然局部有毛病，可是整体的健康状况可能会比一般的人好。这不是“福气”是什么呢？以前曾经看过一项调查，说经常患感冒的人得癌症的机率大大低于不常感冒的人，当时一样觉得荒谬，可是现在仔细一想，也未尝不无道理。经常得感冒的人由于“病怕了”，所以会特别注意不吃油腻热气的食物，还要经常加强锻炼身体。所以他们的身体就不会出现大毛病。
Now I have come to understand the real meaning of “a small ailment is a blessing”. Once a person gets sick, say some chronic but not deadly diseases like pharyngitis, rhinitis, etc, he will pay special attention to his diets and rest compared with average individuals. He will not eat unhealthy food easily. So he may get sick with the small illness, but his overall condition may be better than others. I have read a survey showing that people who often catch a cold have a far lower possibility of getting cancer than those who seldom. At that time, I felt it totally absurd, but now after meditating on it, it seems reasonable to a large extent. Those who often catch a cold will seldom eat fried and oily food and work out more regularly. Therefore, they will not get severe illness easily.
俗话说得好：“病从口入”，当你注意你的饮食时，你已经把疾病拒之门外相当一段距离了。而一些平时不太生病，经常自诩什么也不怕的人，一旦生病了反而一病不起，枉送性命。为何？这些人往往觉得自己很健康，可以任意吃东西，可以任意透支体力，结果积毒成病，积劳成疾，一旦爆发，往往难以补救了。
There goes a saying that illness comes from mouth. When you care enough about what you eat, you have already successfully keep illness outdoor at a large distance. However, some people who do not get sick easily and claim fear of nothing, tend to lose their lives once getting ill. Why? It is because these people tend to believe that they are very healthy and can eat anything casually and overwork. Then their health may be ruined by long-term weariness and unhealthy diets.
当然，我不是在吹嘘生小病的重要性，更不是鼓励大家努力“生小病”来防“大病”。须知生小病而不注意，一样会发展为大病而夺人性命。我想和大家说的是，不管你是否经常生病，都得要时刻注意你的饮食和作息，还有你的运动，只有这样才可以让你大病渐缓，小病渐愈，无病则更壮。
Of course, I am not boasting the significance of getting ailments, nor am I encouraging you to get small disease in order to prevent severe one! You should all know that if we do not care about the small illness, it will also develop into a big one that will claim your life. What I want to tell you is that whether you often get ill or not, you should take special care of your diets and rest as well as your exercise. Only by doing so can help you relieve your acute disease, get rid of small one, and build a stronger body if you are already healthy!
回到宿舍，想起张凯的话，拿起镜子看着脸上的几颗暗疮，想起张凯的话“痘疹粒粒是珍宝”，居然感到一种惬意。是的，小病是福，我想，我该喝凉茶了。
Coming back to my dormitory, I thought of what Mr Zhang told me and picked up a mirror to see my acne. Thinking of the sentence “ every acne is indeed a treasure”, I felt totally relaxed. Yes, a small ailment is a blessing, and I think I need to drink some herbal soup now. |
