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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.- e% Y$ i* t( Q9 m% D* T* h
( i, c7 F6 q5 D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”。 ( G9 Z" W& `8 d7 d / h! J6 \2 e! O/ N% _If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ T) _" { T% {% A1 I2 ~& a# ]( I: @+ {5 P, m" z" x3 h
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。' n; h; N2 g5 N. R5 h
) h4 c7 L$ s( E# d* V& i/ TSome 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.. O/ J# |9 V& t1 s# A! ]( i! O7 p
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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。! Q( N9 f7 T% l& q
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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. G! X8 D/ W& E; r7 s* }+ P + y3 t" P( {) Z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。$ u7 Q" l% `6 G9 t3 Q
( F# v. X( L; f+ J) A: c5 T# MWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." s- J* ?+ A1 T- t9 N: n
2 o" d* ~/ F5 @" g& h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。! e6 q0 a% K- i4 F2 W
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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. ) Y4 M; p2 k4 G `: ^( [0 B + B D. f* `$ H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。9 |# o7 d6 B' y- _. a
% Y% b1 e1 {) YThe 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.( D4 S+ s4 b: W/ R
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# ~7 B3 t0 @7 {) ~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. - a: ~$ S. |" `/ B
4 o; D3 d6 A8 m3 d) S. j7 }' 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。5 ]6 N4 ~, S6 u$ M; E. i
8 e- n' [$ y1 I6 Z1 U* e- kYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.- W7 s3 `* P0 b+ `: k! v" R
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 3 n+ [% l+ ]) Y- m0 L( `1 _* j* b# u- E( {- ^' a
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.8 M7 o# _: N3 _" c% ^2 H) @
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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。2 Q* R5 U# M, ]; Q+ ~3 J1 _6 d: C
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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。' @! K: g1 E+ c: J/ A
+ f4 i8 C J3 d; ~; nTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. / n# t, l7 C$ m/ C( E, ` 3 h9 x) p9 ^% G“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。, o+ D1 [0 G9 ~6 h$ _% I
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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." ; Y8 V; o+ E5 R7 W. D9 P7 b1 z" u, {: k8 Y5 M$ i: r9 Y
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”。 + K. S+ d X" }3 q- {0 U % _# G* v6 a* Q1 y$ W8 y) ^& c$ @6 y, S[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html