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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.6 _4 \; l/ o/ z8 |* x! Y& {
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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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- Q! f5 z4 R% j( S' S2 I' _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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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./ Q9 R, R' F5 e7 H- h& u
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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。- x' P+ n# P. t) T* J7 L. ?
1 t! W6 ^3 K8 Z$ o5 e3 E7 mA 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." w, p0 y3 k! J: Y
8 i8 \$ y; q' }3 a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。 K! z- |. k; y8 o; l
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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.
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' j) Z8 e5 m& C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。' k/ @- k" j. F
. s! B' x3 x1 k% {0 gBut 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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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。0 f6 j9 A' M! I3 K
6 @' d! \4 J7 w$ f; \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.# V% u% O# {/ M6 {5 O+ N. h
+ B" ?/ j( ^3 Z1 i. `1 z0 T# F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。 P' r6 A% O* j3 ^- d W- [6 X
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You 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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+ O( _3 B" a( k0 f! a+ I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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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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% c* Y0 X) A- J% w' J3 Q你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。
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1 n1 b- f: U) o3 w: jHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.2 \. C) Z! g# `5 ]6 L+ {$ z5 I
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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。# P9 e1 z4 B- Q! e5 m' m
! E; T! {7 y* u+ T5 G" hFor 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. "2 g; T! ]" a1 q' f7 a( g- U7 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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Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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* `8 `2 `: x0 c( e: v“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。& U- E5 w5 Z2 ]- P s
- d- e, {6 g; h$ a4 K# BLife. 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."5 F1 B0 `0 J& d I6 P/ c
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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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