- ^# @0 }; ]7 ^) _2 e生命就是小甜饼： ?8 ]8 G* |9 f* G- j0 uOne 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.5 D. k( K7 [9 |7 n2 ~5 _
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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”。, U1 {; p$ U2 t7 u8 `8 J
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If you didn't have the cookie, life wasn't worth a damn. Unfortunately, the cookie kept changing. + x4 E' d; Y0 F& v- E9 H$ l' J4 j4 [. F; F2 n, _
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。 " j+ \# E+ }& V- g- z 7 ?" y+ P6 m) z! ?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.' P9 G5 v5 U$ d8 a" d, x
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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。 7 T( |2 ]0 w; W. Q" F2 }, V ) n, _0 k* B: U+ M Q" I5 f8 M1 E5 \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. - w3 m/ d, d9 H 6 D5 G+ e2 X" [1 O0 t& n# _5 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。, U0 U6 A4 \3 n7 L' n! S
$ R4 s+ ?& F+ M: F' A( G- e8 FWhen I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy.* e c' c6 M; ~4 E9 K) i
, G* S; t9 B2 H: h2 s! P2 M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$ s* N$ T2 k 7 q; R; g0 l# p7 B! @, d. `% }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." }% w8 a1 b7 H4 A" F& F
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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。; p$ U7 y9 l' `* l3 Q5 S+ D' Z2 V$ M4 @
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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.! K6 c b. g, k9 N
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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. + T9 j' I) b/ T% o8 W/ c) d
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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。 8 u* B2 U, v. p( E/ `' ~# c8 X* _4 R) Y
You may not even get a chance to eat it because you are so busy just trying not to lose it. " w1 {" s4 P; ]* U. z + _$ V1 U) l/ t0 o, y6 P你忙于不让自己失去它，甚至没有时间享受它。 0 Z8 w2 }+ S) k% ~, w ( k5 c! }3 Y6 h1 cHaving the cookie is not what life is about." My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him., F* r4 I3 u( d) \' }
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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。& k6 z3 K( v8 U! X8 D0 w, o& x
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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. " % {( y! q: R. p& p) h9 ?. _* Y4 Q$ h5 k+ P3 P
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。 , q. ]9 R7 V! \, \ Y1 |& s6 W' F& Q' u! f; L2 `
Two years ago, cancer asked me, 'Okay, what's important? What is really important?' Well, life is important.4 c. h! p4 t9 }
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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。 1 `7 l0 w: U1 z1 R6 v5 _! S% e; _2 _2 f# G9 J) S0 O
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."* S, {* s e8 h( D; T% p
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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”。; q% E% E' N2 l- z4 i, F h3 _
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