% i$ E4 N) z5 q R8 j. B) w生命就是小甜饼： , P! T& I4 N0 N% G+ j/ cOne 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. $ W" J3 h0 W; ]& [5 X4 x 5 e# V; l, F2 n1 b8 e2 |0 h+ x: H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”。" \ _8 }" K2 Z U9 m, _# W
4 A, i f0 X- G( `If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' p2 z) S! s, l# n0 o F' s% C& y2 }6 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。 " j- ^! }$ h, d/ ~3 [' ^& i% e W5 Y4 o4 z$ p/ ^" ~+ r
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. ! {8 ~8 P$ `* r+ w+ J" e0 ~' |1 Z2 h& y, o* Q4 Q# v9 ]
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。+ }* L1 Q7 L0 N% [2 C$ I/ Y7 l3 i
y3 U; O2 ]/ E- Q) b( r; W0 BA 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.+ c: Z( k5 M" S9 P6 H
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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。1 {0 Y' }0 p9 E( a
! m: G4 N/ Q* V0 W: d- CWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. 7 B2 O! J$ o, E+ x9 N ; d& j6 S5 n; S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。. { G7 g0 b/ x
% p7 p5 _" Y$ K$ r7 jBut 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.- |& C8 e4 G4 h& i
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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。% S1 G* H" A! ?3 K8 y
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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. 6 m4 _; u- v0 }8 T' S3 ? # I2 X# s0 C) Q* |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。1 @6 [8 b3 s: l8 @+ ^7 q9 B; r
9 L: t0 B7 R, r7 `, M9 cYou 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. ! P! P0 \! m5 }) p
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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。 7 _4 G# r: s( G) d$ `& |' U# t% H) q# F9 g& E6 s
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 a6 k" B/ r& o. f. C! Y& A6 B
! l) _0 i# z8 m# lHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.( @" }( S2 E1 T+ S* d' p+ x
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For 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. " 0 D+ I5 A! u+ I) W; @ V f9 V) E a% D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。 7 |( ?& }+ {! d& u6 y) E& n8 I! z8 [0 ?
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. : t# B* h6 \7 I" Z) G : M6 v, M& r* m7 T: ^8 z9 A8 [- x“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 4 j& ^* T0 s! i V, N ( b" A5 O' ^. I9 ?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." . l( Y1 Z# ]+ x% }9 H; b% x ' G5 j' e1 t8 t) y# b- Z. c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”。 & x1 a% j( f* T, V# _9 M " s( g( a4 L9 N0 m[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html