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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. . e2 i9 X9 i2 X: F* F% {1 k: I, g% N5 E L, }
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”。7 Q; ]* \) h) p/ X
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. $ M- o' I3 E! `7 O1 _! O; D( b, ?5 R $ J6 p3 ~# ?, O: K2 u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。9 x# s; p. S2 x' \- r. ~+ X
+ x% K8 N8 ^; h {9 H) J1 l6 PSome 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.! z& g7 Y4 ]- Y/ N8 \0 o& V0 b
+ }- _/ |- Q+ u9 d ~9 `/ j2 r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。 3 _6 o: V, A `6 f' k . p ^$ |8 I: h$ z5 y: O6 @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.. u7 ~) _9 k/ {& i2 ]4 e* N
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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。 $ X% H# H# ]) H0 C2 {* B3 Q2 _! K 4 h; K* h1 N: D6 s9 kWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.( Q, n) w+ C7 w5 h6 a! Z3 ?
, Z# E5 j3 n/ b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。 % |+ N* n( `/ @9 K# M+ } / ]2 O3 i" f; ]# n: mBut 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.! f6 `. l0 _5 f+ M* J0 E/ h
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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 s3 G, j d" [2 x
2 |' j, s' j3 {# Z0 m+ V3 ?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. ( Q# h* Y! {( u. r; S* ]* A4 D( h% c1 o0 A
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。 . w s0 F o( m8 z) ~: V+ [ 0 }, ]) L. v: w2 A9 d( aYou 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. 5 W% l' K9 h9 m: |
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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。 , F; r/ _. S m; [5 |0 ]( r/ z* ]0 { @6 w# F( l: q4 a
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.5 Z! T3 \7 {5 R4 j
% @2 j1 E# T" b你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 9 ?/ w+ h+ o% o % w: M `1 B8 j1 |: ?Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 8 t8 Z* C1 y5 D+ ^$ O& \+ Y ! E; U) V. t# \4 H$ z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。 - A1 @9 R/ d. l $ U9 L1 Q1 g# T/ Z: V. PFor 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. "8 a. F+ s3 T# n( l3 H- D
* y8 v+ K! R- R- u7 o; 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。 - s3 l6 K% Y, b8 V2 N5 p- v- k' }' z v7 {1 T3 @
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.! ], V7 G L v9 S! Y
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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。 0 M6 J* W5 @/ f, v3 o6 l, U! \6 U. e* R
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."# ? N8 T L, Z8 ~- B