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作者: 173110223泮斐飞    时间: 2017-11-15 19:44
标题: 生命就是小甜品
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+ g$ e& o1 C1 o* q% D% aOne 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.
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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”。
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5 _( Q9 B4 }5 K) UIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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6 M, z" P2 p3 u) H! c2 r: k7 u( c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 T+ ]! ^3 J, C4 `+ |
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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.
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. y$ Z6 A8 a& c& P, T1 K$ y- c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。
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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.
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: F& P! c: K. D! V- s* Q# x+ H9 k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。5 f/ W: N% M2 n! r( X+ j: k" c7 v

  x* k6 }- z  a  ]When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.
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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。
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( n3 @- L4 l9 z& `* p4 sBut 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.
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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。8 I# }# G% r8 ^+ }$ F$ y- Y/ d

# O8 l! }, o' T% S" B! I5 g6 }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.
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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。- }8 ?  q/ @# g1 e, c6 `
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You 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.
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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。
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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.
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2 N; }" |& P: p' n你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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. z9 {& i+ q" WHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.- s: G  ?# n+ e9 R" T6 [# T
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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。
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5 m! ~! k; M, M5 ?0 r# 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. "
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, x7 @1 n2 k7 c: f. _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。, k# D$ Z5 z- Q) t) q& D
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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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7 z& B* @: W+ ]  [9 @; 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。7 z& _' }& j2 ?- z* t4 X; b$ V
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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."5 X' b, O0 L- V0 i

7 y! F7 r2 G; @, V+ i( u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”。
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