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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.
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1 J5 P A( i9 S& u. ^/ U& l) g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。
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8 S7 @- ^& z. n6 U. |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.$ o S) m) X' `" b
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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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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.4 F; i7 u( R# H5 g0 ~& R
$ B! C2 w. S% z V; o1 @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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When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy., Z7 T& q6 h6 X+ O" `* k ?0 D( J
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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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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., D7 C, g1 u8 Z6 ]
. H: U2 g. a2 U/ r' n5 Y7 }0 L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。, ]% d# l I' ]
3 M9 w K" S" [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.8 `8 c1 B1 \* Q5 ^+ t7 x
( Q0 j) l5 C% W; _; F; 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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|- R, Z. g9 q& |# u& C, y' WYou 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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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。 i: ?4 q. W5 l u F- Q/ I
! l$ O. G9 @8 ~5 WYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.9 s( ^7 k: R( ^1 r- G
+ @* Q1 h# J. P! n9 [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.7 s" {" [5 q1 e2 W) m
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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。+ H- r3 }7 Q% \- V. j X) K/ r
7 w4 q" T1 M, ]7 LFor 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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 f" P8 `7 |+ N) y- W/ m3 }5 |
* W: E$ ^* `6 l* u% R“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) w) d5 q* p5 B4 c' R! D, B
2 H& f0 r3 e5 v& }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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2 x8 @9 D+ K! W4 h9 h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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