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生命就是小甜饼:
) i' x: A u* ]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.* {" ?5 Y. f8 n7 {9 a) N
, {( A6 P' Z; V( K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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- |( }6 c o$ W7 y, N2 V0 hIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.6 e6 m+ p5 J2 I6 w
9 z6 w) }) W3 ~) X; [1 U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。% i, n4 R: d/ a- P8 z1 D
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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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% [! C7 w8 r$ |" |! k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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: S0 X7 T4 y/ r9 P, }4 QA 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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: m& W) \, }- R( ?7 _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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1 H) T4 |' |' dWhen 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。' W* U/ G9 j( G8 D1 |
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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./ r' C; Z M/ _/ ]8 A+ G) w$ ^! y F5 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。
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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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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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# g7 |$ u L3 M: eYou 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 b3 D. z/ Y$ a6 ]3 @7 Q
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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。
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8 I- h6 v+ Z! l% S: Y5 ~; VYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.3 ^0 S! C9 d6 A5 h7 F
; S3 f7 o4 w& s6 G, I/ Y你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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/ H6 d* Q% P+ eHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.# o M0 e3 x) M! F
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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。 o$ n6 I) j7 s3 R
7 V* ?+ ]0 y- pFor 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. "+ k1 E! r' ^5 I) S9 H
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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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; l: A0 ] e+ y5 @! k9 W" KTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.0 D% ^( u% a4 n- x. }3 p
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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。
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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."! n) R, b1 \( O* D# m
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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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