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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. 6 E' Z6 v( f2 y3 Z& X5 ?. N+ d! I g: C r) ^
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”。* z4 |" V+ C7 X; e1 r
- P, B2 s& s) `! a( GIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.7 I. j' ]; T0 |5 n, ]0 b/ }4 z
0 {$ @& ^5 O* a, X6 I6 E4 ?# _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。 # R& V) I* p6 a" |2 A; I8 _: `' n/ I+ m8 P$ w# _" R; e
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.; ~* f# i1 q( Z' `1 ^7 m
, g- a* d8 \- h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。% w* J/ E. Y9 r- a4 e
" w M/ O0 F$ d; l& Y4 i: ^9 c0 g* m/ [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. % o; Z! A4 w) a# y' U5 L8 t' n% F) |& ^
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。: q# S9 a1 @' F! e$ J( B" N9 s
+ b5 |' n" u( Y5 V& j/ z6 o# KWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. % I6 y9 q+ B; a$ s1 v. J t 5 t2 E, n. X2 x1 n0 d8 K! z; [6 q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。 ; C) h- S+ o5 @1 z( T' H( V5 n- ?* a J
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.( l( F: N q6 ]9 A2 P. X
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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。 # _" }* ~2 [( h1 z9 _ 6 {& A2 o8 U0 TThe 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. ) n* ~, K8 P* N . C( B! C7 P+ a/ x* 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。 % I/ b* Z5 ^' S* M: L: B- v( H/ H4 W, I. w
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. 2 P5 o2 M/ V* g* U; y" e. T9 ~& q b# u8 J
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。 ; O- O) B, c9 L6 [" o$ T3 A7 | G0 W$ b+ O& j+ |' D
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ( d# a, ~& o; u- L( A( R. v ' a0 O6 E* U9 D9 L' h6 X. x _, a你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 7 a+ _, R/ p6 i9 V 2 Z) X8 u1 h3 Q$ s! iHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# D" a/ o, ?! N$ h8 x1 s
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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。 * u+ }! J( z5 e$ O, p; [' p$ c7 c, X% l* N, Z! U% c
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. " 6 y* F8 s1 J7 Q4 p, ]5 i F 3 m, b; u' r2 i( C2 I- ]7 N- b/ v3 G- k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。 + b) f% j( C- a0 k2 E/ M9 y; U$ y. C% U
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. - G* R' Q; i% i! a; h; o% K # |! U; [3 e0 o1 M9 f$ ]“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。 " P" G: C0 M; P) c - F7 D& f7 j2 |) VLife. 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! q2 B |' w5 ~, X$ `6 P0 f; m0 T% c. c) u. I
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”。7 N9 i2 \; S1 A- h0 y