! Z4 r# r# F3 B1 ?( Z% A生命就是小甜饼： 1 y ~$ v: V8 O% TOne 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. # l: w i$ W4 S9 N2 Z , n/ S: N% f0 i8 G4 j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”。 9 d: g: g7 t4 _, X0 J' U( r ! ]3 @( q/ R* j" GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 8 ?9 Y7 c4 j+ D' m7 {3 [ : ^* y1 ]3 N( d* O/ e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。% h6 x- k5 D2 m) x2 r* o
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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. + ^7 J5 ~3 Y* ]1 N# T. L/ a $ _4 v+ e3 U" I( _3 w; h/ r( J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。6 _2 B2 H: i x
( s* G J; ?* p) g3 SA 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. 3 F/ I7 C/ j1 V' i 1 _' g* h* L: u+ n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。% T/ R1 v+ l/ T. U! c
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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.; m* i. x4 t9 q' @: o& K$ L$ B
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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.- q. `9 h2 I% c8 U# \4 W
% I, ]. P1 X( G/ O7 Q1 @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。 : P0 z$ }0 b- ~$ C! D/ A' K. B S$ F" r3 E1 b7 P3 ]8 {7 s- ?
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. 2 {/ u- e% r, \) J* Z% Y7 V" {. a7 F 0 _! C2 ? W+ v- k5 W0 y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。& ?/ G& |, [2 @( b1 W$ Z
5 D/ v4 T& z$ c0 V FYou 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. 2 }2 n4 ~2 \ ?. g8 Q; w$ C. E6 o1 s9 w4 K! q
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。 & D, X" h U/ |% Z9 z L , \7 R/ E8 P: M; Z7 U; L# X4 FYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 8 m+ s5 S8 b% g6 j8 E # n( _1 R- y. \! {- X你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。& J! D0 H5 J6 `6 ~ R" u
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. # k# x: d( Y' W7 n, F9 e . \8 l, l9 X- Y" v7 ]- `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。 9 p |) [& F( l1 g- W: \+ a2 h2 i% ]# q& {/ U* `0 P4 O2 o
For 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. " 0 D; P3 R& Y! T ' S4 ^+ k0 V: q( d' Z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。 * e* u0 s! b& _) u( B0 \9 O - ^9 S) l. Q9 ?Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.3 r: Y2 h1 Q8 d$ r* n
+ L; _' q5 o1 G' W“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 I3 _4 {. K7 I. g 2 U) j6 ]) a+ X' f6 V- L3 xLife. 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."# O1 d6 f1 n9 Q
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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”。 / n, L* H! O' c3 _0 Q% U8 h) i : e ^/ l) }% m( u8 b; a2 y[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html