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7 E8 A2 h5 v# xOne 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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; G& \, y7 i+ Z, \' N" G# h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”。) q$ d5 O$ O6 @) C9 C$ {
$ P# D0 K6 d5 v4 iIf 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。* q4 l! U! ]0 i5 j7 S
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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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, E, i1 W. ?# W7 a1 z3 }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.$ N" [+ x* B' j0 c' e
& u/ g+ w# [3 C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.
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5 a% B8 }3 D% }9 t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。; l. C* h5 b/ i8 |
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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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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。3 E. N8 b7 s6 h: l. I. W
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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.+ g1 U# E7 M, q0 [. |$ b# Y
6 f/ Z0 E$ b0 ^ s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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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. & D" M# `7 `/ [0 ^/ p* Z% D7 O1 G
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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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& B2 T* j4 k1 j/ _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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你忙于不让自己失去它,甚至没有时间享受它。7 `( G- i3 W2 g; ~/ y2 d- z
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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。7 |: [1 j k$ T4 L1 c* t# i
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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。
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% m8 M5 {" u5 S) _# WTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.: \- P' t; ]4 L9 e) Z% x/ ]
5 K. K8 O% b2 X w“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。) s* R0 Y* g3 X* i5 h1 l, p) {' K3 ^: F
& h! M* H2 d( b7 Z, Q) ~* fLife. 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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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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