( M1 L1 J" C: |! |( y1 ]% v生命就是小甜饼： & V, c J- X' {7 g) Y+ P4 s$ BOne 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. 3 h- f. I, g% p5 _% \$ F; h4 R+ c' W% n: @. z+ ?4 |6 E* n
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”。 e0 r- B$ N5 B, q \
0 _1 P. |5 G2 z7 l2 ]6 pIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. : h. c2 F1 m; E; Q7 m- f5 L # F" ^( H( C( V& x N. j9 |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 ]% w+ [8 I# b/ J, ^3 d$ M: L* U! {2 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. 8 z! l* a2 j5 }% e$ Q+ [1 ~- ` : n7 D; C5 F: O- G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。 ! k6 y8 T- B& l; [4 |* S* i7 R' L8 C+ F [$ h$ j" V3 G9 j
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.+ l) o+ V1 r! F3 c' R3 @6 k+ a- d
- P' e j7 ]7 D7 i' }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。 1 H6 F, B1 _$ o" [, _0 t' q ' _- u% A* C7 [7 Z4 m$ j2 R% H6 [When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.' e* t$ J2 p, f* h* P
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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。9 d, L: V$ D& O- c _2 Y
% b6 y. y9 @/ z4 A) [) HBut 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.( H6 T2 u6 f$ X8 l1 T5 j6 l
) U4 M% ~5 u2 {' |+ D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。 3 M. @, s8 f- q8 D ! W4 j/ | K3 g F5 s9 Q0 C+ zThe 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., _0 h' u) |9 x& }/ w; \
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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。4 F6 |# _- m' `0 e# z) l8 S2 `8 j4 ]& T
1 Y7 c1 k- g. QYou 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. 9 l. T* \8 `& n$ w: y
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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。- e$ j3 f+ Q, N4 R' F
, l/ X9 A2 Y9 h/ H1 a0 a# K5 XYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 S8 n. a6 @" s
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。1 g0 g4 a, C5 A3 c7 _7 o" h5 P
% _2 L8 n3 }; d4 b) A' K5 HHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 9 [, U2 B* s5 f4 F: S) j+ F2 ?- N, G2 c& }$ r* {
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。 ?8 t1 @. @* k
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p% Y; O+ M5 d l, j; u" q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。/ ~$ u% l; c$ X" t) u- A/ x% T
* j- `. M# j$ p3 D) T6 ~5 S9 d" `Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# V9 X0 C) G; J e3 i0 i( x
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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。 * u) Q- \4 }0 w4 L# C, G0 X * c1 `4 @) d5 \( Z# H7 m: s* U! mLife. 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.": D1 M' e0 q/ A% f3 K4 {
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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”。 8 \% v& c# Z: a/ I: ^5 ^0 z0 M & `# h7 ?; |. v" d7 c+ z: f[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html