; _7 V$ S. D8 ^" D; [) V* v' S生命就是小甜饼： % F7 E4 o' h, sOne 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.. L& L2 y; K2 o" H! n( {
# N7 v3 G8 q" c) B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 G/ }; L3 \8 L2 O, E4 S : {4 e4 \. m- [ CIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ' o0 Z d% E7 I8 k0 ?: e X7 N* h4 w8 H) h1 v0 M2 ?1 o/ |
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 S6 C. ?: U5 M7 F5 D9 Z
* A- ?* Z5 d1 w- B) C! N; B9 M: @& ~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.; _0 O1 ?5 U+ s' g
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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。1 `: v, j2 U8 u4 Z6 |1 s; q
. p. u; e) n) L0 ^- RA 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.9 R7 r" O- V$ @3 A, w% Z4 H+ a2 a3 _
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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。 : K5 Y( b8 O6 D7 C" ?0 N # X( T1 J( s* V; O" D9 KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.3 i W1 b2 M. b5 F
3 U/ B! C0 e% B8 k8 H% u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 G! l3 a/ {1 A4 T9 @- X" u" v% |
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.5 S$ _7 ]4 n4 A2 \
: \( B! V) m3 r; s* K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。 % M5 Y4 _7 j& P; o/ \ $ Q0 j3 D$ x5 E+ B; oThe 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.! F+ t) d/ x3 o, P8 H. B
- ~* e, r& z+ L7 h9 R L6 D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。) D6 ?. f- X8 Y( I8 r
( c3 R% K& f7 T- qYou 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. " F# k/ A4 D$ ~; ~" o
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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。" {) w F$ C' r H4 z5 [5 s/ x
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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.( q# j( G* ~3 d
) ^& ?6 p2 s# f, m" }7 p0 V* H你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 : {' O& m; `- F2 Q- Y6 O9 k7 |3 `) ^6 T4 P. L& ]$ q" k r
Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.' V1 z: f" V6 B4 n) k
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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。% L: c- Q" v7 ?
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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。 ; Z8 ?7 Y1 V( @& g% x' y& a! ]0 l5 J0 N' @) g% S- m7 \" b9 e
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.* p; \6 E7 K" M2 m
" T) ?5 s# o' X- N% J4 [% p/ k' m“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- s0 C% B! H4 l( F
8 a8 c, y' J9 dLife. 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.": z. o6 {9 f' T a/ L- j
5 T0 E H) E4 H1 \7 {) T, ~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”。 1 o! h- J$ E3 j' M, f w4 s2 Q. ~1 `$ m) K8 s4 V0 B! s
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