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- s3 O7 x# S: G; E, y生命就是小甜饼：1 s z3 M s* N& V/ n/ h* S/ |
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.+ F# u: T6 z9 w
% y# W# g7 ?# B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”。- ^5 d3 m2 E2 [; [
- v! Y. ^' ^3 Z' M1 H I* r b8 FIf you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing.! z; S% g) }8 b8 l/ h; e
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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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2 |% r% w- v) y! }( p2 USome 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.6 }1 G9 a8 f$ j8 ?) J" o
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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。( B- e6 T, O4 p7 R- G8 x) d/ O
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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.8 Z) O6 r6 W( Q9 f* `) i6 r
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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。1 r( A# L! v6 J9 Q8 _2 y& K3 h, N
: U4 b! V9 G$ ?6 _- \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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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。6 B; h7 n; `& k+ r9 b4 V
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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.- R# F0 ~6 m0 V0 L/ c
# z9 f6 F8 p3 d" _( i5 p5 `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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; E; u, Z& I, s, 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.; n& z6 G. `; }2 o
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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。$ _9 d# I( M4 S# w2 D+ B! ?% p
7 _* L; @, b, p1 `/ gYou 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。
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% M/ O6 F# j' V! L* cYou may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it./ i$ x% H& f7 Z
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你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。. F2 V+ \" Z* e* n/ w
+ z. K" O: y; x% R: XHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him.
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: c" d% \9 k' w/ a( z" o, B7 [4 p% S5 Z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。2 R, d/ e" Y) Y& J. f
5 m2 W% a# U7 a# G/ q5 D) GFor 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. "( n0 g2 I7 e; Q d( c1 v; s2 ]
( l0 g4 y- I. X9 E7 ~: X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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$ d# A1 e- _7 O. ` uTwo years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.
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“两年前，癌症问我‘什么重要?什么才真正的重要?’对，生命重要。: a U9 N% H0 }9 ~8 E1 D4 r \6 K
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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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; @9 ?1 @% t$ a: D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”。9 e4 m0 i0 V0 n
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