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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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生命就是小甜饼:" O8 R% u# Z3 I6 A: m0 C' L
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.( t2 ]/ g5 D, ]* a

5 E& k* h1 g, \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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4 R: f# p- ?9 C. R. m4 o) aIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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: V* n5 y9 u- g" k) p. ?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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! j! y- }$ W$ T: g* MSome 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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: J6 t9 `( U9 u, |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。# p0 B2 W0 S1 d2 c
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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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9 d2 \3 d1 _1 S& p0 ]$ \  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.( @4 u1 G7 m- e7 A* g1 {" v  d

3 R$ c# L" v( D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。* k$ M" I+ U( A/ P8 \5 s9 P2 K

* j" z) ^/ _5 i) l1 n. ?" nBut 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.1 C$ {* \, t; {4 }$ J5 n

; w8 |0 C/ i4 g' g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。$ p0 I' J6 ~, D$ U+ I) E7 j
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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.1 j; i; W4 u! {8 m1 U

% M3 h+ t; Y& P+ I  U& F1 |) Q* u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。& t- z8 L7 U: r4 z: ?/ M
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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. + ]- K& c$ X" w0 X# w

3 r1 |/ X) h  m% D/ C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。
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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- J, W; i3 z" _2 W# b2 Y" ?* U& w- A4 p$ s3 R你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。, Q9 M5 V# X3 Y1 {- h* y
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Having 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。
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% ]! u% |3 W% AFor 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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( z  Q' ^) Z6 m4 {6 K' i$ Y: a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。, x+ x2 s5 Z7 c$ r& \; `4 c4 U

  C! l; p% s: c+ z/ p7 H3 L; ATwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.) h+ u; l4 g( R

# G' g' z5 i5 ]  O“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。. E- u. A5 Y) W$ d) F
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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."9 N2 i# p! _  r2 @

# _7 _- A* }! x( Y1 R5 t6 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”。$ P7 F& j  O0 M" ]6 ?5 J

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