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生命就是小甜饼:$ V' L1 G4 r [; M; x, O
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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) @" W& p w+ K- y: k& U7 j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.2 H( U, B" H0 `8 E% ?! }5 a- Z
" L* h2 w0 c% g+ t( i: p$ C 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。* U& Z2 s+ y9 \
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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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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.( _5 t' j1 p# `/ I6 ]& T' |
7 g5 s+ ?6 T5 ^! }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., H: R" u/ n( `. v1 r. g, S" ^
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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。2 X; M! ^5 v2 u: ]1 E2 @
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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.
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, B( }8 f# l3 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。
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9 b3 I' c" u7 ]6 ]8 c% j& \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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0 B0 a4 P6 {' ]8 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. 4 R% Z' ]! [! F1 A3 g: i. z
+ P, e' Z1 Y3 F, C, Q2 x( F/ S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。/ X* U1 h; ^* w9 j- o
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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it.
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( @: o( ~/ Z; m) b: {+ t7 {你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。! s# J( f/ ?3 {% }& p6 q
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Having the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.. A, ~$ ^" z, B) X+ [- B
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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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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。3 n3 t* k! R4 j( B" m
. e, d# _4 y _) ^Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.& D' [) }% y+ ~1 }' @; e- `
7 e( ^ y" H N8 u V( `- }2 \“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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, {5 W' j9 N4 j OLife. 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."# ]2 Y- y' M9 [! v7 D
2 i8 ~$ C) p' s# `0 Z 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”。
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