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生命就是小甜饼:
, C7 L' G2 @/ l2 L0 Z9 ROne 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”。& H2 |6 D B) I: |
# y5 b; V9 I) ~If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.+ x4 G2 i; n& f% A" g
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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。/ S0 [7 H2 k5 _% a3 {" |
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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.( _2 A1 |# V7 S. b, ^4 Z
' v. w7 r7 z: X Q7 X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。$ Z! R5 ~, |; k8 i9 }6 k
+ |9 f- J* H5 pA 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。 ?4 H; N5 t4 O9 J
) {0 B4 ?0 \, C" Y0 b8 cWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.& l& B j# W' u8 g7 C; I, M8 h
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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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8 A' Z; V5 q& n5 v( u( I3 \ VBut 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.9 i3 M+ Y ?: Z' g) d! F
6 U! L6 ]5 ?( L- t/ l, ~, e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。7 n. ]1 Q) } M ~. U" G
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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.* k% `$ U) M2 w2 L5 c
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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。* t- N; n1 I6 ]$ V5 R3 H1 f W
: B0 z/ C' D- v7 E( 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. 5 K8 }; |, }6 c2 b* m% c
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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。( Y* B6 Z4 Y6 ?* r& {! |
( C6 f3 w2 S C5 A3 LYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.* x4 B4 O r. t- d
1 K4 M$ G/ J$ z8 ?0 o你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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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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7 M0 ~$ K$ {. uFor 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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$ p) i# |: Y* pTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.# Z: i( b- h! m o' f
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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。6 m/ n9 i, h/ u
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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."1 x) O" q( V ]* k* d
7 D; L1 F$ n: `6 k+ Z" R2 C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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