- u/ | w1 L( ~$ d9 {( t, y生命就是小甜饼： 9 y* D% u, d! B% h3 s: XOne 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. : }4 P A, o3 r# g/ J6 d- M" w! s* T
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”。 $ ]8 x& V2 {( T9 W4 m2 g, U% c9 y5 B
If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. % A* D0 v1 p; P& T& M( T3 ]; F+ H6 n( d# X* I8 L0 i
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 m6 `7 `/ d" x& X/ ^3 m% u$ K/ o
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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. - t5 Q9 T$ }5 q! s, Z & q( O. z" n* I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 q+ Y5 P# ^( f& w: ?3 J1 \) ` \& ^. P% d# }
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. G- N7 _' C; n" H. E) a
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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。* g: h3 v. L( N; Q/ v# o) V' D
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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.( ~% t! U# I0 ^1 |6 V6 E
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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。 & s2 L5 j' C! R' g$ y( L o/ n- ~ 5 J6 N3 C% \3 R8 q8 jBut 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.7 ^* e5 z g4 M. d
& b, c8 w" x6 V1 V K( A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。- r# R* D% F- o- }7 O: E0 q
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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. 6 L" W1 j! F( L! v6 n6 d " K, e- c/ Z/ @# |0 ^4 H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。 9 x3 Q, S- W! B! K- ~' ^ 4 S0 Z- j& H0 W8 r, |: }! n( fYou 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 I! b; E k4 I2 C% ] T
3 {2 a' b/ L1 e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。! G. @: g/ D5 n- `
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. 7 c3 r( L9 B- Q' K- G3 C0 ~ 7 y+ m% M) j/ t! l3 z8 w3 t$ e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。4 J/ q% p4 ]- D* I8 `" G
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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。 8 D6 V/ X, ?# x & Y# [1 \" H: L- c3 |Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important. . }- `. [) U/ s$ I " H0 U( P& f& y; u“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。/ g6 t: E; D; m( R4 b
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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." 0 l3 \, e0 D1 N1 H+ \: R0 k( g' U( F
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”。 ( G7 g8 P! Q- s5 z" E# @7 J k n7 B6 m% K1 ^; q4 F2 q/ D
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