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A+ P/ e) e+ x- r# N4 \9 v& }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.; r+ W @0 L( _( ]
: @$ v8 L4 t9 S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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, d# B+ f% v! ~" [7 e# L: EIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.
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6 X$ f: A" R( f% i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.
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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.. v! t0 |. Q; Q/ \
; T' C8 B# J& p3 g4 @# W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。% u& J) ?* U4 K8 z$ R, J
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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.0 g, z5 V: W" B1 Q: e# p5 N
4 F0 I e- g) f+ S7 R) E7 g! a" y1 J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。0 P3 H. ^% y& u
( X! t& b4 Z5 y1 A5 d9 q* XBut 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.1 s; A3 `+ \+ Q# @ P
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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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: J5 n( ^+ y. x8 k/ U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. : L, Q* o1 x. `. y/ Y0 _
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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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You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it., j- n5 N5 c& k2 s2 G3 O
! b6 g- [& w, t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.4 X5 b5 B0 [6 i. W. Z8 [
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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 i" d( |" Y) V. M" T4 V, s4 l w
4 K8 i1 _+ h3 a# _0 s9 `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. "6 m1 b6 O$ a, J$ o: C
3 o2 X/ J$ x# E! Z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.6 _ v7 L# M# M9 M# V7 F0 w
) q/ p( ?! b3 C6 M6 F* i: ?“两年前,癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对,生命重要。0 h& K F& s e7 i5 f% @
, @* H7 N# p* l2 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.", |; f6 r6 n; K. N* y
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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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