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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. $ Z# w/ u$ x5 t9 g % K. S' n- I; ^* _9 F0 c, h* m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; M) o5 r! j : \) W2 {' j& `# T3 M3 P- @If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.( c3 o, U* ^' j; H" N
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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。 ! @5 K' {, I9 c& D( a' L / U- h+ @3 Z/ h! ^1 ]% 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.- I7 N. Z# P5 g( P R. T8 ]
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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。4 O( f( G$ I1 q: G" W6 L9 g% l
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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. 6 L/ |- H4 N5 ?) i9 Z 4 G! I; Y8 G, b0 ~ x8 \" |. R2 l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。 5 Y( t' |4 w# O! X' K4 `: Z! x9 X- T: i6 e- _' _4 l
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.8 }2 c, ]+ F v- m8 J. ? A" z
* M6 a- n: I8 u0 C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。 6 I1 Z8 P7 z9 {5 P, A6 w 0 o4 O3 p) n! e3 ?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. $ z6 s& {' O% H# |" N 7 ? a7 \- ^& _6 e( ]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。 0 `( X; `; h3 B4 c2 V# Z- Z4 E/ d1 K3 u# Q1 D
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. ( u" m$ G4 g( G, [0 S F4 x w& m9 K9 I5 p$ c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。 ( |" x4 f# e" \( V; r9 X8 _ ; B. m4 K7 U, |$ Q0 F, P2 O* ~9 XYou 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. ( A: A+ N/ b* F, u4 ^* a8 ?
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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。 9 Q# y4 ?" m+ g9 G8 M# ?! i- @2 f) C& e+ @ E! \. p
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.. c1 j2 c/ D- ^8 V8 X0 K
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. w( A$ i& }) m! i5 m( x5 @
3 ?8 h5 @9 w; o( uHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 4 A# W) F) c5 Q0 [/ a% @7 ~4 e- |2 v8 k
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。 + o, Y. S$ V0 |5 `: Y5 O: `: Y5 X- G 4 Y. q% A c! wFor 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. " & Q3 a% p4 M1 j5 @+ C) {% C- X) p + [, j/ \0 \% J% p/ V$ R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。- [! C" ~) n" U0 a6 r
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: c$ V/ [0 r b, u' f& V5 _% }4 y
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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." 8 \: b5 j. L* J' v: c 0 S* A9 S$ V4 ^9 w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”。 6 [3 u' {" m% [9 }# V5 I 2 U" S+ S) y: o }[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html