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作者: 173110223泮斐飞    时间: 2017-11-15 19:44
标题: 生命就是小甜品
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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.
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% V; l+ t) e# L) X7 R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”。1 B3 ?" h, ~( i6 [+ }

) s& ?) a% N- d; S# B4 |If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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* x' M8 J1 G! N8 {7 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。" G" ?. z- Z' {& H& H: X+ V

) Y( u0 g0 j9 Q1 n# W, w0 D  OSome 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.! y9 C5 g# k* S' W# q

7 t2 R. D/ c' S8 r4 Q. z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。
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4 W) B0 J" L: |9 X' iA 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.
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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。- z' V% L0 m  t+ W9 m& ]
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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* k4 F( ^: f5 J4 t% Q

0 Q; F: h* }$ q- p. E: H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。4 x( n1 A) G/ O3 y) I2 Z

6 w1 [; a: U2 S2 v9 ABut 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.1 J/ a6 Y8 d7 Z& o* ?1 ]3 G; m
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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。
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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.
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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。
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" U. N* l% R. |0 WYou 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.
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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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' g) n$ T. C3 k2 XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* O* l$ I! W0 c- N& `0 A& g

+ u2 b/ V7 g: f6 N/ H你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。* N! a9 o5 ]- I3 _' @$ S
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( A, b( O6 `7 b; K2 `

6 D  @2 y4 J9 B6 h+ O1 x7 M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 C) L- \, e5 ]

( Y/ r& V7 O+ S& p' W& ~; 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. "* ~/ Z1 e2 U3 B" h  ]8 Z$ d

+ `* l* a! K  k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。- d, r& J+ \( ^

; w+ s! B0 Q+ i) G7 V2 _Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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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。; m! u- b0 X- K8 x. k( c

' ?9 ?8 a( P/ O  N; a! fLife. 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."7 I  {8 W/ b6 b& g$ u' M

- g& J- }# v8 ]* r9 B% ^; A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”。( u1 @' @: ]5 T2 q, _2 ^
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