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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.& v7 j+ Y% W% ]% F, {
$ Y+ h: t5 T7 e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”。0 Q9 C Z. Q8 l: P; G& T1 f# |
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 T" c m' S& Q
d) Y2 t8 `, X! R. D4 R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。" N6 d, `3 f8 R. q% c4 L- k7 \
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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.. `3 _ B; R" t. l
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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。6 H& ?5 j. }+ L: k! U3 o
, {2 h1 ~7 c/ s5 F9 T. ]( \) r9 ^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. 2 s0 d5 G5 K) m: P 4 p0 X& v1 W! B8 z$ g! J# Q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。 & H/ [8 s! r6 Q- n; C% [6 K5 l7 l/ R& |/ v r; f
When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 2 \2 T( j" K" f 3 ~- L" z K7 J- C0 ]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。 + I9 o; P. ^& _6 E/ w- z( z% l6 O" A& g L7 q; g
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.$ p' l5 G% E' {$ a H5 G
( h! c9 \; [# [/ h2 w" b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。+ Z5 s0 v, |9 n* c) Q9 \* r
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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.% a% d3 W2 Q6 S; ~
B+ I, K; ~' Z" T% l- o9 H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。( ?& c# G7 N- t8 I' n& V
& d/ k+ W8 k$ R2 Q! gYou 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 K: h i6 S5 y, o7 f7 u8 p0 T5 X1 |$ ~& F6 Z7 T+ Q2 i3 M0 U5 y
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。) R7 e- g/ P( l4 @) Q3 ?
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 8 R$ x5 Y0 W' ~% E! Z4 j# o- o2 i# |
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。 5 v( p% z! ~# a: t0 K+ }) T ( S f+ O4 `& ^) qFor 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. " ( c- |& x1 C. e2 }$ A/ Q6 T; y: ~6 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。) [- o0 r& {2 m8 ]1 Z* ~# q4 }8 R3 B7 }
; b& s+ m7 U) S* s+ p9 B% tTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.1 t Y# t1 ~2 [/ U/ B* ]' s
' w" [2 o K0 |5 Z“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 8 O( w" I1 U. ^2 s4 N {3 ~; `1 ~4 b( c, l# J/ O1 S
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." $ m$ Q6 N! @& w5 h _. z' y5 o% L. W" Q; T* O! F! Q
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”。 5 U0 G6 U( M) C 1 { w) d$ T7 w# @+ H5 O5 d7 b[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html