6 j! a5 Y4 d& e生命就是小甜饼： + t8 \8 t( M2 g" R- h0 I8 JOne 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.( v, ?% Q. s- v
6 Q" R1 B( M8 Y1 L+ I' m- x+ lIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. ; K9 h6 v3 P) v4 q, Z- W, W9 \! L6 b+ v4 o! Z
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。2 f6 b( g7 ]" Q
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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.4 N1 b. T5 j# G0 [) U1 Z) _
5 e! ` Y/ ]4 o4 p) ^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。, B% G! z$ b9 B$ b: y n
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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.- z/ w8 p3 G3 }2 I
/ q. u- _* `% D. t9 mWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. / o) `% @* e4 } _3 ]9 [ 2 e1 V2 I% c7 t% J: b: Y$ k1 v8 f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。7 l% B( [+ ^* \8 b
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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.' S; {5 I- `4 b$ u h! P
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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。3 d( L8 A7 q. q! d! {5 U: O
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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.- {7 s- n6 i% ^) c ^7 s
- L6 z$ f# W6 P3 g3 b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。 ( }3 E+ z: m' \5 ]) J+ L+ D) b; }- G + w, J8 L9 _* VYou 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/ k0 \5 E1 b! l + F- W& i. W8 @4 S2 |9 F% t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。+ @4 a G1 H& [4 s/ D
+ R( w. B/ S2 z5 Y/ _3 k5 D& SYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 O g- Y$ M$ o. x, `$ o" A6 @
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. o, e: ~2 d7 S9 S9 a6 H4 z) P2 [
+ Z. E0 |2 h* n7 s' e/ s2 wHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., H. {* }# Z5 k( G
, k. i% C8 z- y+ a$ ?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。 * s, X2 }$ U q( F- @$ n1 ^, I9 b' P8 ?: N2 o& k
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. "% K7 C0 l; Y, c$ O8 _
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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。; u( n- Y A+ i4 x( b
# o" P2 D% r9 ?) r3 }0 P" p. UTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.6 v F) Z* e+ X4 R6 A' T
0 Z7 {4 E% u P6 f# x+ j# d“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 `8 }: \$ O9 ^/ f+ m3 Y * @1 V0 y6 e# o/ Z! P$ [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." : t, v1 ?, U& g5 S1 \8 d+ z) W 1 S$ s4 t- b: i. W0 N# X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”。 K1 |: @+ w1 A0 A. J/ c : E6 a. x+ o0 j( b0 \$ G# f; b[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html