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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.3 _7 t/ O8 h: E' d

0 [1 [, P: e3 I: H7 y: \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”。' y  {# S3 o" t. _5 a( `; b
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.  e1 ^% _8 w; {! p, B( Z. |9 q: 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。
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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.4 l3 C1 c# G8 |8 l  I
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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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' w. m) |2 h2 @, k9 B( v) jA 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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) R& A8 T+ s4 L$ [- v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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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。
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2 K% V: u2 [; g9 c' iBut 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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; T5 w  ]; U, d' 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。
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& u) @- C! d; N5 @) }6 k" m4 {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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- ?6 A2 N; Z; ~4 ]6 k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。7 `( L: f5 f, G. R3 c

9 t6 M0 \$ l4 L) pYou 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。( d  A: w; a" b6 }9 ]  H: o$ i

, p: X# T" H# {# f% i, p8 rYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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6 Q- w0 d' c* R7 H( f. E你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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9 `- B6 u* @- e/ \7 ?) f% YHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- i- I4 I. J2 [! c# w- i

$ v8 |. V5 Z6 @( S, m7 ~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。2 P; @/ o( Z# @" N3 B. h6 |1 h; s

1 g! ~: X1 S3 KFor 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. "- j, u0 Q& q9 p  B3 N4 T
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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。0 ]8 w8 |8 U$ m  N
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: [; s# y) u3 g; l' k! y; G& \

) n$ M0 y3 [+ M4 G- 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。; ]3 p2 @4 p& @# ?& D

/ d) Q2 b( N! L' T) }3 R6 R+ ?2 LLife. 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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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”。( D& p; A: D$ N* K7 g5 O

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