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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.1 R+ q5 [# }2 [3 A
- o" W$ m! u, M9 o6 J& n/ @9 f! ]. W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 f% F. i g3 R) R C3 L
& [5 K$ B h+ o$ d0 T WIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. 9 [% Z0 k. I/ V0 l) ]+ F& G / m9 ^' i& I$ G) 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。5 W- a( W: T% U8 h1 x; ?8 v$ f$ W6 G
3 v* |, w; @6 _) {4 k4 wSome 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.- i; c+ L2 }( n3 S& i4 Q7 O
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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。 3 @3 N `+ D, ~7 B % y- Y* K% \7 }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. 9 ]5 V1 E4 B @1 H! @ 2 J8 b- ]) b/ }8 [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。2 U9 v. o8 ?% O1 H& f5 K0 v
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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.5 C2 m4 {* Q' t# h7 i* `: c u
9 a% T4 H$ s: } G0 |& c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。# d, d+ u; u. f7 t) h( x
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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.3 m; F2 `! {6 j4 W% ^; h# A3 C
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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。+ j4 `) _0 c. j; w. Z
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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. ' e! c' D7 L/ q' s+ C; A0 T/ a7 Q" B$ \2 z; X( I$ l
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。6 [( d, @( c$ k
# \* ?1 M0 y( E8 O3 [5 M! NYou 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. 0 m4 }2 J: U9 t ! O2 }8 U8 g0 l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。5 f7 w' v% E7 B0 O( t
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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. |, }- e2 t7 }% m0 n8 ~
3 n0 l7 |0 d/ I" F9 u9 G你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。) ]$ l& T6 ~3 e, X: o1 g. E
0 i, M2 P7 t$ Y F) g2 j6 y( WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.7 o/ P) s4 M: e, O
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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。' @% J6 d& Q& W3 O- L
- O- @" g* M6 }% h5 X+ `3 wFor 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. " 4 v5 ^7 }7 p: z& G9 M2 F& X) Z; Q ' V. W, [" {# q8 j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。 ' z7 T, Q& e4 G0 o8 e' K! m; A 0 E. S: [ I8 xTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. $ P1 ~( j% R: l' O; g; Q0 M$ C& [1 e- x, Q
“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 ' a0 R/ _- o. ?0 ~/ U% \) h; j6 H" l9 S0 o
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." 7 c4 I& n* t2 k4 z" h 2 A$ ?1 g) B& Z. m! n3 z5 Z: z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”。 ) z6 a0 i7 r; ~$ F* O `5 g- J3 D! j0 j; o* U[attach]55054[/attach]https://m.ishuo.cn/subject/nvoxiu.html