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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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生命就是小甜饼:
" K% F4 u3 ~$ e7 b/ 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.
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8 s. v) [3 m9 [& T- s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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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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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 y9 U2 M4 h9 D$ K+ ?- b

1 E* `) b# S" y( n$ SSome 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.2 y% X' H4 |8 p
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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。
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( T* J% g2 `% V) d: w# z, xA 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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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。: w+ r" ^( m6 s, b+ f# p3 t, z

& Q& v8 F3 E3 a. w* UWhen 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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. @5 R7 W! i# L4 iBut 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。
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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.' `2 J5 O" i; o  `8 h) w$ S, [

1 Y( E& @$ e& \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。
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9 {  I& X3 d4 m# p, k4 UYou 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. 6 U2 e! ]. ?+ B$ h5 Y/ z7 e
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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。1 W# V9 t4 V7 }, r$ d- a, L
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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 F  k$ P/ E# @! j4 r3 g/ o你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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( X9 z  a) m' UHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. _$ o' E% H' e2 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。
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% d5 i/ _" r) KFor 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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! }  `: L1 z% S6 X9 {1 c- S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。# j; R( ~7 U; d: 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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“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。# Q- Z' X  u. ?( k- y; E0 r! N! K

8 p& O: Z* J( V% x6 ALife. 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."
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  H% K" E8 o/ ?2 y. v& 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”。3 m# X( x) B5 s" r
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