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6 r/ D( o+ @3 V生命就是小甜饼:
1 x1 }/ n$ ]$ i0 X& l3 W! 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.
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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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) M$ p3 ~5 O! g) _/ LIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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2 f( @; ~% t. p# A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。) ^4 Z& W \, ~- C) y- ?7 W
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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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) l, H6 O$ y6 z* U- I! F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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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。
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]! f7 v4 p% z8 W& G) k5 U+ hWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy." Y* }/ A1 R# d( \, N# A
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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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3 Q6 M: g- \4 c2 L! i- n4 ~5 ZBut 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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2 W- b, ^+ ] }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.
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# `4 l3 _ K7 L! k* S+ w( g! `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。. |- e! G, h# c3 c* w. Q- b
6 i9 M5 z- s3 J# b# f8 XYou 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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- `( f/ U8 O l9 `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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* o: L5 ^$ I7 w- n# X+ o: LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.% C u/ Z l0 n& p8 `
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你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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, L% ?: b# {& w4 n% xHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.! |* Z6 A8 a5 m0 R4 X, N, S0 O
- | j! m; `# i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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: |9 G5 a$ E( t" A- Y i: `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. "
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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。
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0 e/ ?1 v7 m0 x( iTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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6 J0 |* P. I9 {* [# E2 K“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。/ T. A2 K: T' S- s' Z5 T
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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."
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9 Y2 A9 e( ?& u& b1 T3 \3 v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”。6 p: w/ {$ ^; I0 [) b1 q8 ~
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