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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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; e) S0 l8 a0 ^+ wOne 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." G1 y$ |8 q/ b( L6 d6 S7 G7 x" h5 P

( q+ i# S! h! X$ l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”。
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.4 C) ?) {, A4 i( i
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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。6 L$ [5 c, K, i

9 R. i7 [2 ?- NSome 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。
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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.
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4 r  A0 g4 C3 ^8 ]* 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。
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$ e. Z% ]. Y$ e/ a8 dWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.5 W- y7 W3 k+ @) _6 u) J# m+ U

6 F, C+ B4 m8 L3 l+ k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。) [5 }, y! [9 ?; O* n

3 o: m  i+ J1 {6 pBut 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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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 t2 S, z4 z  A& Z2 m, S
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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。( q# ^; H: }% ^- l5 L8 ?9 u
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You 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. " L1 M* T+ y( n& S

* _3 S2 s# G/ V; x% m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。7 s$ r8 S6 `8 R; z! N0 Y8 M+ a

+ z* r% Y# B8 S6 N! [- j3 s/ l, mYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 N# c% e3 K- W* C7 z  w

7 B/ `# n1 R* o! q  P你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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! v" }$ T! j* s4 CHaving 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。/ \( L4 _7 o  l1 D/ y$ V

" }" x/ s: A3 Z6 I  K% B2 h* hFor 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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9 \% z4 o" m4 cTwo 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。
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+ B" \" _7 h" f* G* Y$ f, |4 F& |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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' @$ W# ^; |% |5 [1 l3 Q- |$ K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”。& z5 W6 l! j& V' S0 a

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